Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center

The Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center at Foxborough exists as a partnership between Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and provides full service outpatient medical care. Located next to Gillette Stadium at Patriot Place, this 1.3 million-square-foot development is a four-story center with multi-specialty physician offices, an urgent care center, advanced diagnostic imaging, rehabilitation services, and four operating rooms for outpatient surgery.

Orthopaedics continues to drive the success of the Health Care Center. A growing number of our surgeons and physiatrists are seeing patients at this facility including: Drs. Eric Berkson (Sports Medicine), Thomas Gill IV (Sports Medicine), Jennifer Kurz (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), Kelly McInnis (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), Rosalyn Nguyen (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), Luke Oh (Elbow), Gleeson Rebello (Pediatric Orthopaedics), and Joseph Schwab (Oncology, Spine).

The Brigham and Women’s / Mass General Health Care Center is home to the Mass General Orthopaedics Sports Performance Center and the Mass General High School Sports Clinic, which provides no-charge physician visits to in-season high school athletes during their fall sports. (www.MassGeneralSportsPerformance.org)

The Mass General Orthopaedics Sports Performance Center

In April 2012, the Mass General Orthopaedics Sports Performance Center opened to the public, offering individualized analyses and supervised custom fitness programs designed to maximize recovery from injury, prevent injuries and enhance and optimize physical performance. The Center integrates state-of-the-art technology with the clinical expertise of Mass General Sports Medicine physicians, certified athletic trainers, biomechanical engineers, therapists, cardiologists, nutritionists and certified strength and conditioning coaches to critically and scientifically analyze athletic activities and develop individualized exercise and fitness programs.

Under the leadership of Director Eric Berkson, MD, and Clinical and Research Director Donna Scarborough, PT, the Mass General Orthopaedics Sports Performance Center serves athletes of all ages and levels, specializing in baseball (Clinical Leaders Sam Horn and Matt Kramer), running (Clinical Leader David Nolan, PT, DPT, MS, OCS, CSCS), and golf (Clinical Leaders Kyle Rodenhi, PT, MS, OCS, and Doug Perron, PTA).

The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care

The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care in Danvers celebrated its third anniversary in May. Conceived and constructed as a joint effort with the North Shore Medical Center, this facility is located on Endicott Street in Danvers, just off Rt. 128, and includes both an 80,000-square-foot medical office building and a 125,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery care center. Dr. Brian Grottkau, Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics, is the Medical Director of the Orthopaedic Program in this facility. Other Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopaedic Medicine Specialists seeing patients at The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care include: Drs. Gleeson Rebello (Pediatric Orthopaedics), Francis Hornicek (Orthopaedic Oncology), A. Holly Johnson (Foot and Ankle), Saechin Kim (Pediatric Orthopaedics, Pediatric Spine), and Jeff Kreher (Pediatrics Sports Medicine, General Pediatrics). At this facility our surgeons offer care in the areas of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Hand and Upper Extremity, Orthopaedic Spine, Orthopaedic Oncology, and Foot and Ankle.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Orthopaedic Service Collaborations

The Jim and Ellen Kaplan Center for Joint Reconstruction Surgery at Newton Wellesley Hospital (NWH) continues to grow and evolve under the leadership of its director Dr. Joseph McCarthy, Vice Chairman and Chief of Reconstructive Joint Surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Dr. McCarthy was the host of the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy’s Annual Meeting, which was be held in Boston in September 2012.

He is joined at NWH by Dr. Hany Bedair of the Arthroplasty Service and Dr. Holly Johnson of the Foot and Ankle Service, who will soon be seeing patients in the Joint Center. In January 2013, Dr. William Healy will be joining the Kaplan Center. Dr. Healy is an arthroplasty surgeon and we are very pleased to have him in our growing network of physicians. He will be part of the Arthroplasty Fellowship and teaching service at MGH and NWH.

In the fall of 2012, an additional operating room will be opened at NWH, specifically for total joint surgery. Further surgical procedure growth will also occur with the opening of the Ambulatory Surgical Center in Wellesley, located close to Newton-Wellesley Hospital. A number of Newton Wellesley surgeons will be performing surgery at this new facility.

In the spring of 2012, Newton-Wellesley formalized the Department of Orthopedics under the direction of Dr. Timothy Foster. Dr. Foster received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, and trained at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in general surgery and the Boston University/Lahey Clinic Orthopaedic Surgery Program. Dr. Foster completed a fellowship at the Mass General Hospital in Adult Sports Medicine and he completed a fellowship in pediatric and adolescent sports medicine at Children’s Hospital in Boston. He was formerly an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University and part of the Academic faculty at University Hospital and Boston Medical Center. He has been the team physician for Boston University sports for the past 21 years. His surgical practice will focus on sports injuries of the shoulder and knee. He will also help lead the educational programs for the students, residents and fellows at Newton-Wellesley.

There are many areas of evolving collaboration between Newton-Wellesley and the MGH. In addition to the electronic medical record and digital radiologic services, our physicians are spearheading the development of a joint registry, which will be shared by NWH and MGH to further ensure the highest quality of patient care and safety.

The continued growth and development of the orthopaedic program and personalized patient care continues to occur as a byproduct of this outstanding collaboration between Newton-Wellesley and Mass General Hospital.