(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) A front-page article that ran Thanksgiving Day in The Boston Globe depicts with great sensitivity the lives of four men who were moved out of what was then the Fernald School 40 years ago and have lived … [Read more...]
Funding for DDS clients falling through the cracks
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) There are few burdens greater than having to care for a loved one with a severe intellectual disability, particularly when the state declines to provide any help. At a public hearing earlier this … [Read more...]
Where’s the beef in Community First?
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) We've long maintained that the Patrick administration's agenda of phasing down and closing state developmental centers would ultimately fail to free up additional funding for the community based … [Read more...]
Another forgotten cost of closing developmental centers
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) One of the costs of closing developmental centers for the intellectually disabled, which rarely gets considered in budgetary "savings" analyses, is the cost to affected communities in lost economic … [Read more...]
One way to avoid cutting Medicaid
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) The Patrick administration's "Community First" approach to caring for people with intellectual and other disabilities depends on a huge, $2.6 billion, state and federally funded network of nonprofit … [Read more...]
Update on our requests for cost records
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) After a month and a half, it's troubling that the Patrick administration is apparently still unable to locate cost records we requested pertaining to a single community-based group home contract. I … [Read more...]
The Globe gets it right on nonprofit contractors
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) An editorial in today's Boston Globe begins to get at an expensive and pervasive state problem -- the relative lack of oversight of the state's nonprofit human services contracting system. The … [Read more...]
Once again, we’re waiting for the administration’s cost records
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) It has been more than a month since we asked Secretary of Health and Human Services JudyAnn Bigby for public records detailing the costs of specified services in a particular group home program for … [Read more...]
Second sudden death reported after a transfer to a DDS group home
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) We've received a report of a second intellectually disabled man who died in the past two months after being transferred to a community-based group home from a state developmental center. In this … [Read more...]
DDS client’s death raises new questions about care
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) We reported last week that the Patrick administration was refusing to provide any information about -- or even confirm -- a report that a man in his 50s, who had lived at the Templeton Developmental … [Read more...]
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