Home Care in Winchester

The Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital is a state-of-the-art medical center that provides a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services. Bedford VA has a full continuum of mental health programming, including a number of exemplars in the areas of Vocational Services, Peer Services, Homeless Services and outpatient Mental Health services. Programming is organized around a "recovery oriented" treatment philosophy, and the Mental Health Service Line is a national leader in psycho-social rehabilitation, research and education.

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, encompasses an ambulatory care center serving more than 3,000 patients each day and a 317-bed hospital. Lahey Medical Center, Peabody, serves more than 800 outpatients each day and includes a 10-bed hospital. Both feature 24-hour emergency departments, and an American College of Surgeons verified Level II Trauma Center is based at the Burlington facility.

McLean Hospital is dedicated to improving the lives of people and families affected by psychiatric illness. The hospital offers clinical services for the following areas: Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Child and Adolescent Services, Depression and Anxiety, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychotic Disorders, Women's Mental Health.

Winchester Hospital serves the health care needs of northwest suburban Boston, including Andover, Arlington, Billerica, Burlington, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Methuen, North Andover, North Reading, Reading, Stoneham, Tewksbury, Wakefield, Winchester, Wilmington and Woburn, as well as several other surrounding communities. In addition to acute-care inpatient services, Winchester Hospital also provides an extensive range of outpatient services as well as integrated home care. Winchester Hospital provides care in major clinical areas including medicine, surgery, pediatrics, cancer care, obstetrics/gynecology and newborn care. Winchester Hospital provides important medical specialties like cardiology, pulmonary medicine, oncology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, rehabilitation, radiation oncology and pain management.

Minuteman Senior Services is an Aging Services Access Point (ASAP) serving communities in the MetroWest Boston area. ASAPs operate under a state contract to coordinate and deliver a wide range of services to senior citizens in their regions.

SNAP offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities. SNAP is the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net. The Food and Nutrition Service works with State agencies, nutrition educators, and neighborhood and faith-based organizations to ensure that those eligible for nutrition assistance can make informed decisions about applying for the program and can access benefits. FNS also works with State partners and the retail community to improve program administration and ensure program integrity.

Commonwealth Care Alliance serves Massachusetts "dual eligible" population of citizens eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. CCA provides care for elders and those with disabilities. CCA builds a statewide network of primary care practices and a safety net of human service organizations, independent living centers, and community-based organizations to serve the dual-eligible population.

Join other seniors in June for more delicious meals. Please remember to sign up by Friday for meals for the following week, and please give 24 hours notice of cancellation if you cannot come. The cost of a meal is $3, and the meal is served at 11:30 a.m.

All calls (day or night, 7 days a week) will go directly to the Massachusetts-based call center at 1-800-922-2275, regardless of the location of the reporter or the elder.

THE RIDE paratransit service provides door-to door, shared-ride transportation to eligible people who cannot use fixed-route transit (bus, subway, trolley) all or some of the time because of a physical, cognitive or mental disability. THE RIDE is operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Accessible vehicles are used to serve persons with disabilities, including those who use wheelchairs and scooters. Requests for preferred type vehicles will not be honored. THE RIDE operates 365 days a year generally from 5 AM - 1 AM in fifty-eight (58) cities and towns. For RIDE trips with origin and destination within 3/4 mile of fixed-route service that operates outside of these hours, or in other municipalities within 3/4 miles of MBTA bus service, extended RIDE service is available. The West Area also includes small portions of Billerica and Wellesley that are within 3/4 miles of MBTA bus service. VTS also serves trips to/from the border communities of Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Melrose, Needham, Reading, Stoneham, and Wilmington, as long as one end of the trip is located within one of the non-core area communities listed above.

Maplewood at Weston offers independent living, assisted living, or memory care serving the MetroWest communities of Weston, Newton, Needham, Belmont, Lexington, Natick, Framingham, Wayland, Holliston, Waltham, Brookline and more.

The Gables at Winchester offers independent living, assisted living, and short-term respite stays on 14 wooded acres of beautiful rolling landscape, just minutes from Boston and Cambridge.

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. As an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute, the Institute also provides training for new generations of physicians and scientists, designs programs that promote public health particularly among high-risk and under served populations, and disseminates innovative patient therapies and scientific discoveries to target community across the United States and throughout the world.