The foundation of your medical care is the personal relationship between you and your doctor. Working together, I am committed to meeting your needs with expert and timely care.
Practice Information
My Primary Care Internal Medicine practice is located at 1400 Centre Street, Suite 104, Newton Centre, Massachusetts 02459. I provide comprehensive primary care services including "state of the art" preventive care services, care for common acute and chronic illnesses, expert diagnostic assessments, and immediate care. I have 27 years of experience coordinating care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with our world renowned specialists.
- Guaranteed same day visits
- 24 Hour Emergency access to Dr. Triffletti on patient hotline
- Low waiting room times
- House calls when needed
- Coordination with specialists including assisting with appointments and prompt communication with your specialist before and after visit
- Electronic Medical Record Management integrated with your specialists and hospitals
- Electronic prescribing for all prescriptions including controlled substances, for your convenience for rapid response to pharmacy
- Free Parking
- Highly competent staff providing friendly atmosphere
- Preventative screenings, including:
- cardiovascular screenings to reduce heart disease risk
- cancer screenings including innovative multicancer detection through blood test(billed separately)
- vaccination review
- obesity counseling and treatment as needed
How to Join
This is a retainer based private practice. The retainer is an annual fee to participate as a member in the practice. Please call for information about enrollment and rates at Dr. Triffletti's direct patient hotline 617-804-1717 or you may contact the office directly at 617-731-7774.
Philip Triffletti MD, MS Bio
Dr. Triffletti has moved his medical practice from Needham Internal Medicine-Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare. He served as a member of the executive leadership team as the Associate Medical Director and Director of Health Care Quality.
The community based primary care medical group consists of more than 200 providers in Eastern Massachusetts.
He began his career at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 1995. He has been consistently involved in clinical care for patients, teaching medicine, and providing clinical leadership. As the medical director for Health Care Quality, he pioneered the development of a robust patient safety program providing mentoring and training to physician colleagues. Partnering with the medical center, we created a nurse navigator role to expedite referrals to the Breast Center for new breast cancer patients. Since 2015, he developed a program for safer use of opioid medication. He also started an innovative community based medical physician peer review committee to improve care for patients.
- Born in Plymouth, MA and raised in Kingston, MA
- University of Connecticut BS Pharmacy 1980, BS Psychology 1981
- University of Massachusetts Master's Degree in Exercise Physiology 1986
- Tufts University School of Medicine 1988 graduate, senior class president, awarded "Contributed Most to Medical School"
- Received full medical scholarship from United States Air Force and served 4 years finishing at rank of Major
- Internship and Residency in primary care (emphasizing orthopedics, dermatology, GYN and mental health), University of Vermont Medical Center, VT 1988-1991
- Board Certified Internal Medicine since 1991
- Co-founded Hospitalist Program at BIDMC in 1997
- Community volunteer for court sponsored fatherhood program, counseling fathers about preventative health care, at ROCA in Chelsea 2005-2014
- Medical Director for Leonard Florence Center for Living, a world class skilled nursing facility and rehabilitation center 2009-2021
- Ranks in top 15% of primary care physicians for patient satisfaction (Press Ganey)
- Teacher of the year 2009 and 2018 for Beth Israel Deaconess Health Care/Harvard Medical School, teaching students primary care in the office setting
- Interests include running, swimming, strength training, golf, skiing, motorcycling and singing
Patient Portal
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For patients needing to establish new EClinicalWorks portal account, please contact Olivia 617-731-7774.