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Identifying the missing costs

July 27, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: glavin, intellectual-disabilities, monson, patrick-administration, privatization, templeton

A pattern of denigrating Fernald

June 10, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ADDP, developmental disabilities providers, fernald-developmental-center, glavin, intellectual-disabilities, monson, patrick-administration, templeton

It’s about the care model

June 5, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-based-care, fernald-developmental-center, glavin, ICF care, intellectual-disabilities, monson, patrick-administration, templeton

What are they afraid of?

June 1, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fernald-developmental-center, glavin, intellectual-disabilities, monson, patrick-administration, templeton

The Herald headline and story are wrong

May 26, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) On Tuesday of this week, The Boston Herald's readership was treated to a bombshell headline and story, purportedly about government waste due to delays in the closure of the Fernald Developmental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: association of developental disabilities, fernald-developmental-center, glavin, intellectual-disabilities, monson, patrick-administration, templeton

Setting the record straight about Fernald and COFAR

May 24, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) If any more evidence was needed that the human services providers and the Patrick administration are attempting to tarnish the Fernald Developmental Center's families in order to discredit the highly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fernald-developmental-center, glavin, intellectual-disabilities, monson, patrick-administration, templeton

Fernald being used as political football

May 22, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) The Fernald Developmental Center may be almost closed, but it's now apparently being used as a political football by the administration and the human service providers who are seeking to close at least … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fernald-developmental-center, glavin, monson, patrick-administration, templeton

Seeking a chance to speak truth to power

April 28, 2011 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) No doubt, State Rep. Brian Dempsey, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has never talked with Joan Douty, the mother of a resident of the Glavin Regional Center in Shrewsbury.   Joan could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cost study, fernald, glavin, intellectual-disabilities, monson, patrick-administration, privatization, Templeton centers

We need an independent cost comparison in closing developmental centers

November 29, 2010 By dave-from-hvad

We have just reviewed a purported cost-benefit analysis that was submitted to the Legislature last July by the Executive Office of Administration and Finance regarding the planned closures of the Monson, Templeton, and Glavin Centers. For … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cofar, fernald, glavin, intellectual-disabilities, mental-retardation, monson, templeton-developmental-centers

Lege fighting (timidly) for DDS facilities

May 5, 2010 By dave-from-hvad

Last year's language was watered down to eliminate a requirement that the Legislature approve the cost-benefit analysis before any facility could be closed.  This year's language is similarly watered down.  No … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, fernald, glavin, mental-retardation, monson, patrick-administration, templeton

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