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The
Lemuel
Shattuck
Hospital
provides acute, subacute, and ambulatory care to patients referred primarily
by public agencies and private health care providers. This fully accredited
teaching facility also provides an array of mental health, substance abuse and
social services. The hospital’s services enable patients that are
economically and socially disadvantaged, and underserved by the mainstream
health care system to obtain high quality, cost-effective care from a staff
that respects their dignity.
In addition to
operating 255 inpatient beds, the Shattuck is unique among state-operated
direct care facilities in offering comprehensive medical care, including 26
subspecialty outpatient clinics, all but the most tertiary surgical services,
and a full array of radiological imaging and clinical laboratory services. The
hospital’s inpatient services play a major role in filling gaps in the
health care system for individuals in state care and custody, and from the
community, whose co-morbidities and psycho-social issues can be a challenge to
conventional health care providers. In particular, the hospital’s
collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and
Department of Correction enable the chronically and severely mentally ill, and
state and county inmates, to obtain high quality care in a safe and secure
setting.
Multiply
diagnosed individuals can obtain one-stop shopping from the breadth and depth
of Shattuck’s clinical services. This quality of care is enhanced by the
hospital’s numerous relationship’s with academic teaching programs,
especially the medical residency program co-sponsored with the Tufts
University School of Medicine.
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