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Medical Director: Alexander Vuckovic, MD
Assistant Medical Director: David Brendel, MD, PhD
Program Director: Joan Zabarsky, RN, CN
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Behavioral Health's Premier Evaluative and Residential Service
The Pavilion at McLean Hospital was created for individuals requiring expert psychiatric and neurologic consultation. It is designed to meet 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?
Individuals who would benefit most from The Pavilion are those with behavioral-health issues, such as mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety-related disorders, personality disorders or substance use disorder, who desire a comprehensive evaluation and access to McLean Hospital's world-renowned facility. A unique feature of The Pavilion is the ability to care for patients 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.
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The Pavilion offers comprehensive psychiatric, 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 after-care services, including outpatient and residential treatment in comfortable home-like settings. Both the diagnosis and treatment plan take into account a patient's previous medical findings. Special attention is paid to stress management, fitness and diet.
Home-like Environment
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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, including a state-of-the-art facility on the McLean grounds, and easy access to many attractions within the metropolitan Boston area.
Connections with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Part of The Pavilion advantage is McLean's affiliation with Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). All of the world-renowned experts available to
patients hold faculty appointments at HMS. US News & World Report consistently ranks McLean and MGH among the top health facilities in the United States, while "The Best Doctors in America" lists many McLean and MGH physicians in psychiatry, including The Pavilion
Mind and Body: A True Multidisciplinary Team
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, seven days a week. This commitment to examining the biologic as well as the emotional components of a patient's illness ensures that The Pavilion explores every avenue in searching
for effective solutions.
Evaluation includes:
- Expert psychiatric and psychopharmacologic consultation, allowing definitive diagnosis and treatment of difficult symptoms.
- Neurologic evaluation by The Pavilion's 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.
- Family evaluation by experienced and knowledgeable social work staff.
- Psychological and neuropsychological testing.
- Psychoeducational, supportive and psychotherapeutic group programs.
- Nutritional evaluation.
- Individual assessment and daily psychotherapy.
- Clinical summary outlining diagnostic impressions and therapeutic recommendations provided to patients and referring clinicians.
- Specialty consultations in the 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 stress-related symptoms and conditions.
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Working Toward Lasting Solutions
The Pavilion at McLean Hospital is built around the premise that by working as a team, the patient, family, staff and referring clinicians can assure the best chance for a successful outcome. Treatment plans are developed in coordination with medical and psychiatric professionals
both from within the program and, when appropriate and desired, with the patient's current treatment providers.
Cost
The cost for Pavilion services is $46,200, all inclusive, for a fourteen day stay.
Contact
Referrals to The Pavilion are welcome from across the United States and internationally. Please contact Cathy McCool, LICSW, at 617.855.2874 or e-mail pavilion@mclean.org.
All communications are confidential.
About McLean Hospital
U.S. News & World Report ranked McLean Hospital first among all freestanding psychiatric hospitals. McLean Hospital is the largest psychiatric facility of Harvard Medical School, an affiliate of the Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of Partners HealthCare.