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Compensation of provider executives in MA reaches $100 million

January 28, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) More than 600 executives employed by corporate human service providers in Massachusetts received some $100 million per year in salaries and other compensation, according to our updated survey of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, executive-compensation, privatization

It’s time to put a priority on state-operated care for the developmentally disabled

January 14, 2015 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Here's our letter to the Baker administration, asking them to put a priority on state-operated care for the developmentally disabled: Kristen Lepore Secretary Executive Office of Administration and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities

When Big Brother (thinks he) knows best about the developmentally disabled

October 29, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) It can be frustrating when government administrators take it upon themselves to tell citizens what is in their best interest, and that includes telling them what is in the best interest of their family … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental disabilities providers, developmental-disabilities

Why we won’t be at the bill signing at Fenway Park

October 22, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Tomorrow, Governor Patrick will be at Fenway Park for the ceremonial signing of three pieces of legislation that are intended to make major changes in the care and services for the developmentally … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, autism, community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, Real Lives Bill

Heavily redacted state reports raise more questions than answers in sudden deaths of DDS clients

September 29, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) More than three years after the sudden death of a former resident of the Templeton Developmental Center, we have received a report on the matter from the state Disabled Persons Protection Commission, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abuse and neglect, community-based-care, developmental-disabilities

DDS policy will disperse people and care

September 22, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) A new Patrick administration policy statement on care and services for people with developmental disabilities states that its intention is to enable people to lead "fully integrated lives" in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities

Why the Fernald land deal should include a plan for the developmentally disabled

September 2, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The history of what is now known as the Fernald Developmental Center hasn't been free of some serious blemishes or controversy.  But from 1889 to the present time, Fernald's 200-acre campus in Waltham … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, developmental-disabilities, privatization

Federal agencies ignore realities of care of the developmentally disabled

July 30, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Some agencies within the Obama administration have an ideological bias against congregate care for the developmentally disabled that has apparently blinded them to the damage done to countless lives in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, deinstitutionalization, developmental-disabilities

DDS expands privatized services despite family preference for state care

June 9, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

[Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog] Patricia Murphy had to file a federal lawsuit in order to get her intellectually disabled sister out of a corporate, provider-operated group home, where she says she was subjected to abuse and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, intellectual-disabilities

Setting the record straight yet again on the Fernald Developmental Center

May 21, 2014 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Every year at budget time, the corporate providers funded by the Department of Developmental Services trot out the Fernald Developmental Center and the families that have appealed the transfers of their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, intellectual-disabilities

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