Primary Care provides ongoing, routine medical care for patients, such as:
- Annual exams
- Initial diagnoses
- Preventive care
- Patient and family health education
Your primary care team also coordinates many other care and services you may receive, including:
- Labs and blood work
- Mental health care
- Women's health care
- Radiology and other diagnostic imagery
- Social services
- Telehealth
- Other specialty care and services
Except for medical emergencies, primary care is provided only through scheduled appointments.
Emergency Services are provided only by the Emergency Department on the West Roxbury campus. However, for urgent conditions that are appropriate to be treated on an outpatient basis in a primary care clinical setting, same-day or next-day appointments in primary care are available.
Patient Call Center
The Patient Call Center is a very important part of primary care, providing ready access to the primary care team. Patients may use this system to communicate with the team, receive clinical advice or answers to questions, request renewal of medications, and to make or change a clinic appointment. All patients enrolled in primary care have access to this service.
To reach the Patient Call Center, dial 1-800-865-3384 -- available 24 hours per day.