Mental Health Care in Gardner, MA

Heywood Hospital

What Does Heywood Hospital Offer?

Heywood Hospital is a mental health facility at 242 Green Street, Gardner, Massachusetts, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy, partial hospitalization and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

242 Green Street
Gardner, MA 01440

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Heywood Hospital

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Seniors or older adults
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Thiothixene
  • Trifluoperazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Asenapine
  • Cariprazine
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Massachusetts lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Heywood Hospital

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Gardner mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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