Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is a general medical hospital that offers room-based eating disorder medical stabilization for adults. It is located in Boston, Massachusetts and is affiliated with Harvard.
BIDMC does not have an eating disorders treatment unit, but provides a specialized room-based medical stabilization protocol (“ED protocol”) for medically unstable patients with eating disorders.
Length of stay ranges from a few days to a few weeks, depending on individual stabilization needs and how long it takes to stabilize. For adults who need medical stabilization before admission to an eating treatment center, BIDMC helps with this. It can also provide harm-reduction based medical stabilization. The program is voluntary and does not work with involuntary patients.
The treatment team members come to your room, and include nursing, doctor, dietitian, and psychiatry. BIDMC has can provide tube feeding if needed. The hospital also has inpatient swallowing services.
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