(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) A van crash this week in Newton, which injured 12 adults with intellectual disabilities, highlights a lack of adequate oversight of the state's community-based system of care. The incident, involving … [Read more...]
DDS won’t give out information on reported death
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Late last month, we received a report that a healthy, 55-year-old man had been transferred from his home at the Templeton Developmental Center and subsequently died four days later at a community-based … [Read more...]
Identifying the missing costs
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) The Patrick administration claims that the average per-person cost of Department of Developmental Services vendor-run group homes is less than the average per-person cost of state developmental centers … [Read more...]
Compelling testimony in support of a facility cost study
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Introductory note: A proposal for an an independent cost study prior to the closures of the Templeton, Monson, and Glavin developmental centers may have run into a legislative roadblock last spring, … [Read more...]
Nonprofit vendor salaries drawing increased attention
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Organizations such as the Massachusetts Providers Council may still be defensive about suggestions that scrutiny be applied to the sometimes excessive salaries drawn by executives of human service … [Read more...]
This is where our money is going
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Inspector General Gregory Sullivan has alleged numerous financial abuses in the state-funded Merrimack Special Education Collaborative, which coordinates special education programs among several school … [Read more...]
Judge rules against Fernald transfer
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) A state administrative judge has thrown a new hurdle in the path of the closure of the Fernald Developmental Center, ruling that moving one of the remaining 14 residents out would not be in that … [Read more...]
A pattern of denigrating Fernald
(Cross-posted from the Cofar blog) Opponents of Intermediate-Facility-Level care in Massachusetts have repeatedly denigrated the Fernald Developmental Center during the past two years as part of a campaign to encourage the shutdowns … [Read more...]
It’s about the care model
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) A disturbing incident involving an attempted rape of a woman by an intellectually disabled resident of a community-based group home last month can teach us all a valuable lesson. We've been in the … [Read more...]
What are they afraid of?
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) It's now clear that there will be no independent study of the cost of closing versus maintaining the Templeton, Monson, and Glavin developmental centers for people with profound intellectual … [Read more...]
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