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The Pavilion at McLean Hospital
Medical Director, Alexander Vuckovic, MD
Assistant Medical Director: David Brendel, MD, PhD
The Pavilion Concept
The Pavilion at McLean Hospital was created for individuals requiring expert psychiatric and neurologic consultation. It is geared to the needs of both the patient and family, offering the kind of choice, flexibility, confidentiality and service not found in today's health-care world of insurance reimbursement.
Who is right for The Pavilion at McLean Hospital? Any individual with behavioral health issues, such as mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety-related disorders, personality disorders or substance abuse who desires a comprehensive evaluation and access to our world-renowned health- care facility. A unique feature of The Pavilion program is our ability to care for patients suffering from illnesses throughout the life cycle, from adolescence through old age.
Comprehensive Evaluative Services
A core element of The Pavilion is access to an unrivaled network of diagnostic services through McLean Hospital and its affiliations with Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. The Pavilion offers comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, including medical and neurologic evaluations, and treatment, performed over approximately two weeks. Continued treatment and a longer length of stay are also options, as is access to an array of equally individualized and comprehensive aftercare services, including outpatient and residential treatment in comfortable home-like settings. Both the diagnostic and treatment plan take into account a patient's previous medical findings and treatment. Special attention is paid to stress management, fitness and diet.
The Pavilion Residence
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The Pavilion provides a home-like residence, private rooms comfortably appointed with private baths, specially prepared meals and other amenities. Patients benefit from staff support, easy access to hospital services, availability to top health clubs and easy access to the many attractions of the metropolitan Boston area.
The Pavilion at McLean Hospital provides advantages difficult to find elsewhere. The search for a successful outcome is maximized by the high quality resources applied to the evaluation and treatment planning processes.
The Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Connection
Part of The Pavilion advantage is McLean Hospital's affiliation with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. All of the world-renowned experts available to Pavilion patients hold faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School. US News & World Report consistently ranks Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital among the top three nationally among all psychiatric programs in the United States, while The Best Doctors in America lists 15 McLean physicians in their psychiatry section, including The Pavilion Medical Director, Dr. Alex Vuckovic.
Mind and Body: A True Multidisciplinary Team
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The Pavilion team includes physicians expert in medical and neurologic evaluation and treatment. The Pavilion approach integrates psychiatric care with a full neurologic and medical diagnostic work-up along with other necessary medical tests-available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This commitment to examining the biologic as well as the emotional components of a patient's illness means that The Pavilion at McLean Hospital explores every avenue in searching for effective solutions. Our reputation as a tertiary care treatment center ensures access to the newest, most comprehensive psychiatric technology, including for treatment resistant illness, availability of medications not approved for use in the United States.
Evaluation includes:
- Expert psychiatric and psychopharmacologic consultation, allowing definitive diagnosis and treatment of difficult symptoms.
- Neurologic evaluation by our neuropsychiatry group, pioneers in the interface between psychiatry and neurology.
- Clinical and cutting-edge research-based imaging and electrophysiologic testing, comprehensive sleep study.
- Medical consultation.
- A family evaluation by experienced and knowledgeable social work staff.
- Psychological and neuropsychological testing.
- Psychoeducational, supportive and psychotherapeutic group programs.
- Nutrition evaluation.
- Individual assessment and daily psychotherapy.
- A clinical summary outlining our diagnostic impressions and therapeutic recommendations provided to patients and referring clinicians.
- Specialty consultations in areas of substance abuse, workplace stress management, impulse control disorders, trauma and post-traumatic stress, geriatrics, electroconvulsive therapy and forensic evaluation.
- Consultation with the renowned Mind/Body Medical Institute, Herbert Benson, MD, founding president and author of The Relaxation Response, for any stress-related symptoms and conditions.
Working Toward Lasting Solutions
The Pavilion at McLean Hospital is built around the premise that by working as a team, the patient, family, Pavilion staff and referring clinicians can assure each patient the best chance for achieving a successful outcome. The treatment plan developed at The Pavilion is constructed in coordination with medical and psychiatric professionals both from within the program and, when appropriate and desired, with the patient's current treatment providers (including the primary care physician). Open lines of communication and realistic treatment recommendations mean that when a patient returns to his or her personal and business life, progress made at The Pavilion can be sustained.
The Pavilion Difference
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The Pavilion at McLean Hospital is designed as a private-pay option for individuals who want to maintain a high degree of control over their treatment.
Pavilion Privacy: The Utmost in Discretion
The Pavilion ensures confidentiality through its highly trained, professional and discreet staff. No third party has access to the medical records without explicit prior consent.
Pavilion Treatment Plans: Customized, Flexible, Realistically Focused
The physician and patient retain total control over the treatment plan. There are no delays due to third-party precertification and no restrictions on physician choice. The Pavilion at McLean Hospital is dedicated to creating a comprehensive synthesis of all evaluative and consultative findings and, importantly, timely follow-up with aftercare providers. In addition, The Pavilion offers continuing consultation with referring clinicians.
Pavilion Service: Patients and Families Should Expect the Best
The Pavilion at McLean Hospital offers a high degree of service, including transportation, arrangement of accommodations at five-star hotels in nearby Boston and Cambridge, and other amenities designed to make sure that The Pavilion is a positive and supportive environment for successful evaluation and treatment.
Contacting The Pavilion at McLean Hospital
Referrals to The Pavilion at McLean Hospital are welcome from across the United States and internationally. For information, please contact ...
The Pavilion at McLean Hospital115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478-9106
Alex Vuckovic, MD, Medical Director, 617. 855.3570
or Cathy McCool, Director of Admissions, 617.855.2874
email: pavilion@mclean.org.
All communications are confidential.
McLean: A Legacy of Psychiatric Innovation and Care
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Amidst a lovely, tree-filled campus in Massachusetts sits one of the nation's preeminent psychiatric facilities, McLean Hospital. Just eight miles west of Boston, McLean's suburban setting offers a unique opportunity for people with behavioral health issues.
When McLean Hospital opened its doors in 1811, it was the first psychiatric hospital in New England and just the third to open in the United States. Ever since, McLean has been at the forefront of both the treatment and study of mental illness.
Whether it was as the first psychiatric hospital to set up laboratories to study the psychology and biology of mental illness or as a national innovator in research on brain function, McLean Hospital is a pathfinder, leading the way toward a greater understanding of how the human mind works in health and illness. McLean perennially is the most successfully funded private psychiatric research facility in the country and its heritage of groundbreaking mental health research is brought to the fore every single day to the benefit of each patient. McLean's long tradition of innovation is focused on solutions to the special needs of the individual. In its more than 180 years of service, McLean has treated thousands upon thousands of individuals. McLean understands what matters - addressing the personal needs of each patient.