Belmont's Houtmeyers Named St Mary's Center President

St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children announced today, Monday, July 1 that Belmont-resident Deirdre Houtmeyers, executive director and patient care director of St. Elizabeth’s Comprehensive Addictions Program at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, has been named president of the Dorchester-based non-profit, effective in September.

Houtmeyers was elected in April to the Belmont Board of Health.

Houtmeyers comes to St. Mary’s following a 33-year tenure at St. Elizabeth’s where  she leads a large, diverse, multi-disciplined staff providing inpatient, outpatient, day treatment, diversion and after-care programs to youth, adults and families with significant substance abuse and mental health problems.  

Houtmeyers brings extensive experience in risk management, program development, quality improvement and contract and fiscal management to her leadership role at St. Mary’s.

A social justice ministry of the Archdiocese of Boston, St. Mary's offers more than 600 at-risk young women and their children a comprehensive range of emotional, educational, and economic services through six results-oriented programs, supporting them with residential, clinical and educational and employment services, housing search to assist families in securing affordable, permanent housing.