The Social Work department helps those patients and their families staying at Baystate Medical Center with problems resulting from, or impacting, their medical illness or medical trauma.
Help we provide:
- Adjustment to illness or injury
- Family and interpersonal stressors
- Other psycho-social difficulties
Please speak with your nurse or physician if you wish to obtain those services.
Our Services:
- Social Work provides coverage 24-hours a day, 7-days a week
- Social Work coverage in the Emergency Department is present to support patients and families in crisis as a result of trauma or other emergency conditions.
- Counseling interventions and referrals to community agencies and other supports can be provided to patients and families related to the following issues:
| - Adoption |
- Homelessness |
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- Child and elder abuse
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- Family & interpersonal conflict |
| - Domestic violence |
- Grief and bereavement |
| - Drug and alcohol abuse |
- Anxiety |
| - High-risk newborns |
- Depression |
- Financial and insurance concerns -
call Patient Accounting 413-794-9999 |
- Other mental health concerns |
| - Compliance with medical treatment |
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- Support groups related to some specialized patient groups including:
- Breast cancer
- Post-polio
- Osteoporosis
- Total joint replacement
- Pediatric Diabetes
- Adolescent HIV
- Hepatits C
- Kidney transplant
- Pediatric bereavement
