(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) As part of a push toward so-called self-directed services for the developmentally disabled, the state has established a payment system for those services that has exclusively benefited a Boston-based … [Read more...]
Redacted state report appears to clear hospital that failed to treat developmentally disabled man
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) An investigative report by the Department of Public Health appears to have concluded that Lowell General Hospital was not at fault in the case of a developmentally disabled man who died after having … [Read more...]
Federal government reviewing group home data in MA and two other states
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The Inspector General in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has spent the past two years conducting a review of data on abuse and neglect in privatized group homes in three states, … [Read more...]
The federal government’s cruel pursuit of deinstitutionalization
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) When is the federal government -- particularly the Department of Justice -- going to recognize or admit that deinstitutionalization of the developmentally disabled hasn't worked as planned? The DOJ … [Read more...]
The HW&M budget has great news for sheltered workshops, not so good news for state care in general
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The great news is the House Ways and Means Committee re-inserted protective language last week in the proposed Fiscal Year 2016 state budget that would protect vital sheltered workshops from … [Read more...]
Human service providers’ lawsuit boosts their state funding despite deficit
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) While programs and services are being cut throughout state government as a result of projected budget shortfalls, corporate human services providers have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars in … [Read more...]
Following the money on three new DDS-related laws
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) More than five months ago, three important pieces of legislation affecting people with developmental disabilities were ceremonially signed into law with a lot of fanfare by then Governor Patrick; but … [Read more...]
Guardian rights bill would help families caught in the DDS-probate system
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) As we have chronicled a number of times, family members can get shut out of the process when their loved ones with developmental disabilities enter the state's system of residential care. This is … [Read more...]
Baker administration continues Gov. Patrick’s misguided effort to close sheltered workshops
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) As the Legislature takes up Governor Baker's budget for the coming fiscal year, it looks as though the battle over sheltered workshops for the developmentally disabled in Massachusetts is set to begin … [Read more...]
Two lawmakers support an independent evaluation of Andy McDonald
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) More than a year ago, we asked for an independent clinical evaluation of a now 47-year-old intellectually disabled man, who has not been permitted to visit his parents in their Sherborn home for the … [Read more...]
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