Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care to Host Community Open House
September, 2009
The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care is opening its doors to the North Shore for a community open house to showcase the comprehensive, state-of-the-art services and facilities it brings to the region.
The community open house is being held Saturday, September 26 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 102 Endicott Street, Mass. Along with an exclusive look inside the new facility, the center will also be offering:
- Free health screenings
- Blood pressure, glucose and asthma
- Childrens activities
- Life-sized game of operation
- Kidz Zone – tips on exercise and healthy eating
- Free giveaways
- Spin North Shore 104.9’s prize wheel for a chance at some fabulous prizes from neighborhood businesses.
The new center, which officially opened for business June 1, builds on decades of collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital and North Shore Medical Center (NSMC), the region’s largest community hospital.
Located off Route 128 on Endicott Street in Danvers, the 122,000-square-foot outpatient facility includes eight day surgery suites, a breast health center, advanced diagnostic imaging services, cardiology evaluation and diagnostic testing services, and the North Shore’s only full service cancer center. Adjacent to the outpatient care center is an 80,000-square-foot medical office building, which houses the offices of 50 primary care and specialty physicians.
Designed by the architectural firm of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott and built by Walsh Brothers Construction, the Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care features natural design elements such as exterior panels made from recycled materials and a two-story glass atrium.The three-story building is nestled into the natural slope of the land, lowering the overall profile of the building so that only two floors are visible from Endicott Street.
Facilities and services provided at the outpatient center include:
- Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center, providing 24 infusion bays for chemotherapy, three linear accelerators for radiation therapy with plans for a fourth, 13 exam rooms, a blood lab, and a pharmacy.
- Day Surgery, including eight state-of-the-art surgery suites with the latest technology to enable Mass General and NSMC surgeons to provide the most comprehensive care. To accommodate the special needs of children, the facility will have four dedicated pediatric surgical suites – in addition to 26 pre-operative and recovery rooms for adults.
- Breast Health Center, providing genetic screening and counseling, breast MRI, diagnostic digital mammography, stereotactic imaging, breast ultrasound, Patient Navigator support program, and outpatient breast surgery. The Breast Health Center is supported by three community-based mammography screening sites at NSMC Salem Hospital, NSMC Union Hospital in Lynn, and the NSMC Women’s Health Center in Danvers.
- Diagnostic Imaging, including PET and CT scan, MRI, X-ray, and ultrasound.
- Cardiology Services, including cardiology care, evaluation and diagnostic testing including EKG, echocardiogram, Holter monitoring, and stress testing.
- Specialty Programs in gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology (including reproductive medicine and IVF), orthopaedics, otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat), pediatrics (in conjunction with Mass General for Children), surgery, and urology to be located in the adjacent medical office building.
North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) is the region’s largest community hospital with campuses in Salem and Lynn. NSMC facilities include NSMC Salem Hospital, NSMC Union Hospital in Lynn, NSMC North Shore Children’s Hospital in Salem, the NSMC Heart Center in Salem, the NSMC Women’s Health Center in Danvers, and the physician network known as North Shore Physicians Group. It is the only North Shore facility to offer a comprehensive cancer center and a sophisticated heart center offering both cardiovascular surgery and angioplasty.
Massachusetts General Hospital, established in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where nearly all its active staff physicians hold faculty appointments. The 900-bed hospital offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. Each year Mass General admits more than 45,000 inpatients and records more than 1.5 million visits in its extensive outpatient programs at its main campus and off-site facilities. Mass General conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of nearly $500 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, cutaneous biology, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, transplantation biology, and photomedicine. Mass General has consistently been named one of the nation’s top few hospitals by US News & World Report.
