Dorchester House Health Center

Primary care: Dothouse served over 17,498 patients in Dorchester in fiscal 2023. Primary care services represented 62.8% of total patient visits during the year. Primary care services include adult medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and the urgent care program. From these services, patients can be referred for a wide variety of in-house specialty care, social service, case management and wellness programming. Our full complement of services includes adult medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, urgent care, women's Health, dental care, eye care, behavioral Health including substance abuse disorder and full services in pharmacy, laboratory including testing and phlebotomy, x-ray, ultrasound and mammography. Specialty care includes dermatology, nutrition, cardiology, hiv, clinical case management, access to public benefits such as food and housing assistance, legal assistance, out-of-school time programming, adult education, tax and credit counseling, food pantry, swimming pool and gymnasium programming, elder services, and exercise programs.

Other medical services: Dothouse served more than 4,800 patients in the pediatrics department of primary care. Innovative programs within the pediatric department include the enhanced integration of behavioral Health services within the pediatric clinic space, which includes two clinicians and two (2) family partners. The program is under the supervision of Dothouse's dual-certified pediatrician and psychiatrist and aims to improve early identification of behavioral Health problems and provide a full complement of preventative and treatment services to children and their families. Dothouse has continued to develop and implement asthma action plans with children who are diagnosed with moderate and severe asthma, which includes working with school nurses in supporting their asthma action plan when they are in school.

Pharmacy: Dothouse offers full pharmacy services during normal operations to our patients. The pharmacy filled 142,545 prescriptions in the fiscal year 2023.

Mental Health: continues to provide services as well as assisting patients who are medically and socially vulnerable. Patients receive assistance with legal matters, obtaining food stamps, social security, heating problems, childcare assistance, and educational testing. Patients receive domestic violence services as well.optometry: offers complete eye care for the whole family and services are available for people of all ages. We offer comprehensive eye exams, treatment for eye diseases, evaluation and treatment for cataracts and glaucoma, low vision service, contact lens fitting and care.public Health and social services: offers a variety of services including diabetes services and programs, food, and hunger assistance,hiv related counseling, and other type of support groups.oral Health: Dothouse served over 3,400 patient visits in its oral Health department. Dothouse has expanded its capacity in oral Health to include prevention, and restorative and oral surgery. Dothouse has added a dental suite in pediatrics for preventative visits for children which is staffed full-time.