Boston Medical Center will now end its urgent care-style addiction services at a former hotel in the area of the city known as 'Mass. and Cass.' at the end of July, instead of the end of March:
The former Roundhouse Suites hotel in Boston near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, also known as"Mass. and Cass," has been used for transitional housing and an addiction program since January 2022. : Boston and state health officials will provide additional funds to Boston Medical Center, extending the hospital's clinical services at the Roundhouse Hotel through the end of July.
Steve Fox chairs an umbrella organization that represents 18 neighborhood associations, called the South End Forum. He expressed relief that the program will no longer operate near Mass. and Cass — the area around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Fox said he thinks such programs should now be located away from the neighborhood, because it has a concentration of addiction and homeless services and a large open-air drug market.
BMC also operates 60 transitional housing beds in the former hotel, for people who've previously stayed unsheltered at Mass. and Cass. That program is under contract with the city through June. A BMC spokesperson would not comment on the hospital's plans for the transitional housing or the people staying there.
Fox said he's urged city officials to develop more scattered transitional housing programs — such as the pop-up cottages installed on the campus of Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, where people from Mass. and Cass get support services as they await permanent supportive housing. That program is a partnership between the state, city and nonprofit service providers.
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