Pine Street Inn at the Shattuck

Pine Street Inn at the Shattuck is a community health center dental clinic in Jamaica Plain, MA, operated by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which runs 3 clinics in Massachusetts.

The health center is open about 36 hours a week, so dental capacity is limited and the wait can be long.

Access to This Clinic

This is a part-time site. Part-time health center locations may be open only one or two days a week, and dental services may be available on fewer days still. Confirm the dental schedule before planning a visit.

Clinic Details

Costs and Coverage

Fees follow an income-based scale, so the same treatment costs different patients different amounts. Where the thresholds fall is decided by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, so what a friend paid elsewhere is not a guide. Get the assessment done first; it changes what the whole plan costs, not just the first visit. Our guide to applying for the discount lists the documents to bring.

No Medicaid registration has been recorded for this clinic, which is not the same as Medicaid being refused. Massachusetts decides its own adult dental benefit, which ranges from comprehensive to emergency extractions only depending on the state and the year. Children are covered everywhere. The Medicaid dental page covers how to check yours.

Dental Services

The treatments available at this clinic are not listed publicly. Health center dental programs usually cover examinations, cleanings, X-rays, fillings and extractions; root canals, dentures and oral surgery are the ones that vary, and are often referred out.

Dental Providers at This Clinic

Alongside general dentistry, providers registered in oral and maxillofacial surgery, for surgical extractions and jaw procedures practice at this address. That is not the same as the clinic taking new patients for those treatments, or the discount covering them, so name the treatment when you call.

Planning Your Visit

170 Morton St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

The published number is 617-971-3787. At larger organizations it may reach central scheduling rather than the dental department, so say which clinic you are calling about and that it is for dental care.

Before making the trip, check: the dental hours, and which days appointments run, whether new dental patients are being taken, and the current wait, what a first visit costs, before and after any discount, whether your insurance or Medicaid dental plan is accepted, by plan name, and what to bring for the sliding fee application.

Common Questions

Other Clinics Operated by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program operates 2 other clinics elsewhere in Massachusetts. Where an organization runs several clinics, the waits rarely match. It is worth asking which one has capacity before settling on the closest. A sliding fee determination made at one of its clinics commonly carries across to the others, so income documents may not need providing twice. What is treated at one site is no guide to another, so confirm with the clinic you actually intend to visit.

Other Dental Clinics Nearby

Distances are as the crow flies. Wait times are set clinic by clinic, so ask each one rather than assuming.

• Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center — Dorchester, less than a mile away
• DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — Roxbury, about 1.4 miles away
• DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — Roxbury, about 1.5 miles away
• Codman Square Health Center — Dorchester Center, about 1.7 miles away