(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...]
Van crash highlights DDS oversight and protection loopholes
(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...]
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