The home has eight beds. That works out to a cost of $257,000 per bed over the 20-year period. Given that DDS has projected that it will be using the same lease-purchase arrangement to develop state-operated housing for 26 Fernald … [Read more...]
I don’t get our governor
It's not about civil rights. He's all over that map. It's not about the rule of law or court settlements. It's not about getting people out of large institutions, since the child and adolescent funding is designed to keep them at home as … [Read more...]
Bowed but unbroken
They see an administration that has been steadily dismantling a system of care that they fought in the courts for years to improve. Fernald and the other state Intermediate Care Facilities (ICFs/MR), with their staffs of … [Read more...]
Why, Senator Brewer, is no cost-benefit analysis needed for Fernald?
Here's the irony, though. The conference committee language that you came up with, Senator, does nothing to protect any of the facilities. So that leaves us with a nagging question. Why was it so important to take … [Read more...]
If business is really more efficient, then why fear government competition in human services?
Yet, the myth that government can't do anything right is now being trotted out to sink Obama's public health care option. If government is allowed to compete with private insurers, Medicare will pay … [Read more...]
DDS continues to throw out fictitious ‘savings’ numbers
As long as those residents are still alive, they must continue to be cared for. If Fernald is closed, that care will have to be provided either at one of the remaining state facilities (probably the Wrentham Developmental … [Read more...]
The truth about the de-institutionalization ‘trend’
We're not at all sure that statement is true.There's no question that there has been a tide of political and financial pressure around the country in the past decade to close state Intermediate Care Facilities for the … [Read more...]
Senate throws Fernald a lifeline: UPDATE
As we read the Senate language, it offers far weaker protection to the Fernald, Monson, Glavin, and Templeton Developmental Centers than last month's House budget amendment. The House measure would require … [Read more...]
Court documents show DMR Commissioner
Cathy McDonough’s care in a DMR group home
Cathy died last November at the age of 51, after Mary brought her to her own home to live following her eviction from the group home. Mary believes that the disruptive conditions in the group home may have hastened … [Read more...]
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