Children's Health Network
Children's Hospital at Lexington
offers advanced services
The state-of-the-art outpatient facility at Children’s
Hospital at Lexington offers 24 specialty services and
11 ancillary services, and is staffed by the same physicians who
deliver world-class care at Children’s Hospital Boston. With
the recent addition of an outpatient electro-encephalography (EEG)
laboratory and an open extremities MRI, the Lexington facility
now offers high-technology diagnostic tools once available only
in the city.
Lexington opened its new EEG lab in January. It is staffed by
Children’s EEG technologists who perform the same diagnostic
tests patients would undergo at Children’s main campus. The
recordings are electronically transmitted to Children’s Department
of Neurology in Boston for prompt interpretation by the epilepsy
team.
Also available at the Lexington facility is a new, unenclosed
extremity MRI. Patients with site-specific injuries sit
comfortably in a chair, placing only their ankle, knee, hand,
wrist or elbow into the doughnut-shaped magnet. The open magnet
is ideal for young children and patients made anxious or claustrophobic
by a traditional MRI. Children’s radiologists specializing
in musculoskeletal injuries and disease read the scans the same
day they are taken, making the entire MRI process quick and effecient.
EEG tests are available by appointment
at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon. every Tuesday and Thursday.
Physicians can schedule a test by calling the clinic scheduling
line at (781) 672-2100. Parents with specific questions or concerns
about the process can call Children’s EEG laboratory at
(617) 355-7970.
For more information on the extremity
MRI, contact Children’s Department of Radiology in Boston
at (617) 355-6286 or in Lexington at (781) 672-2200.
Children’s Hospital at Lexington
is conveniently located off of Rte. 128.
