The plan was/is to close the building because the state doesn't properly keep up and maintain the buildings that serve the people they really don't care about. The services, meaning number of beds and the struggling souls who are occupying them, are not being closed. Long term plan is to relocate to Newton Pavilion, in the heart of methadone mile. This plan, whether it happens or not now, is as inhumane as it was to move the Long Island shelter and its services to Methadone Mile. Wake up people, tactics of the Nazi regime have been occurring in Boston by the formation of the Methadone Mile Ghetto. Shattuck Hospital is simply a small concentration camp with plans to move next to the ghetto.

If you care about humanity, speak up and get involved. These patients may be poor, struggling with addiction, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, foreign, not look like you...but I promise you that their heart beats are strong and they are amazing individuals in their own way. Now more than ever they need the communities who live around them to stand up and fight for them. Just because they are behind locked doors doesn't mean they aren't members of our community. Write your senators and state reps. Write the Governor. Write EOHHS, DPH, DMH. Demand better for your most at risk community members! What is occurring now is criminal, however I promise you that change was needed well before Covid19.

-From inside Shattuck Hospital

It's in the process of closing

By jillian on Fri, 04/17/2020 - 6:43pm.

It's been closing for a few years, with some programs quietly shut down and others already moved.

The plan is to ultimately move services to the Newton Pavilion - currently being used to help quarantine people without homes during this emergency.

I've been hearing from people at the Shattuck (and other state hospitals). Conditions sound bad, I'm not surprised there are so many cases.

I hope when this is all over, the spotline that is currently being shined on nursing homes, shelters, and now state facilities (group living environments and residential schools will likely be next) leads to changes down the line.

Is it

By Don't Panic on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 9:43am.

The last State Hospital in Boston?
It's 8 blocks from me.

sort of, but not really...

By jillian on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 4:44pm.

Shattuck hospital has the only "continuing care" DMH beds in Boston. Hospitals with continuing care beds are what we generally refer to as state hospitals.

Other places DMH has continuing care beds are Taunton, Worcester, and Tewksbury, plus beds by contract at Vibra hospital in Springfield (through 6/2020). Like the Shattuck, Tewksbury is technically a DPH-run hospital with DMH beds.

But DMH DOES have other beds in Boston. The Fuller Mental Health Center is a DMH-run hospital with acute-care beds, ie beds that are meant for short term stays. DMH also has acute care beds in Fall River (Corrigan) and Bourne (Pocasset).

There's not always a real difference between an acute care and continuing care bed. Stays at Pocasset and Corrigan do tend to be short (under 30 days) but stays at Fuller tend to be longer - and many of those beds are forensic (like Shattuck and some Worcester RC beds).

AND there is a DMH-run shelter at the Lindemann MHC, also in Boston - affectionately called the Lindemann Inn.

^^ civics lesson for today ^^

My Nana

By Don't Panic on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 4:46am.

Worked at the Boston State Hospital on Morton Street. She knew jujitsu.
Her handshake could paralyze you.

Coronavirus outbreak at Shattuck Hospital

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