Friday, January 18, 2013
As of Tuesday, 1,221 seniors remained on waiting lists for home care.
Dozens of senior citizens stood outside Gov. Deval Patrick's office in the State House on Thursday demanding that their concerns about cuts in home care spending be heard. Chanting "Can you hear us now, governor?" the seniors wanted Patrick to respond to a letter several senior advocacy groups sent him in September detailing what they say has been a $15 million cut since 2009 in home care services and asking for such funding to be restored. Although Patrick didn't meet with the seniors, Ann Hartstein, his secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, took their questions and comments in a downstairs press room. "The governor is totally communted to community-first," Hartstein said of the policy that promotes home care over nursing-…
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Both the Massachusetts House and Senate bills addressing cost containment appear to be stuck in committee.
The committee charged with arriving at a health care cost containment bill both the Senate and House can agree on before July 31 is making little headway, according to the Boston Globe. The two chambers have passed different versions of a bill that seeks to reign in rising health care costs. House leaders estimate that their bill, which pegs spending targets to the states's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), will save the commonwealth upward of $160 billion over the next 15 years. The Senate's plan also ties spending to GDP, but less aggressively. The House seeks to have spending on health care growing at half a percentage point less than the rate of GDP growth by 2016. The Senate bill calls for the two numbers to be growing at the same rate by…
Friday, September 23, 2011
Student enrollment has nearly doubled over the past seven years.
The popularity of MGH Institute of Health Professions -- a school in the Navy Yard -- has continued to grow. In the past seven years, officials say student enrollment has almost doubled. A total of 1,111 students started the fall term at the Charlestown campus this month. They're studying nursing, physical therapy, communication sciences and disorders, medical imaging, and other health care profession courses. That’s an 83 percent increase from the 612 students who attended the graduate school in the 2005-2006 school year, according to a recent release from the school. What's accounting for the growth, even through the down economy? The release cites a few factors: President Janis P. Bellack, PhD, RN, FAAN cited the pending retirement …
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Matthew
2:29 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
This nation is suffering from out of control spending. Every sane, rational person realizes that we need to make cuts. But no one wants THEIR government programs touched. We've all become so dependent on the government to take care of us. Something needs to be cut. But what? Suggest defense spending and the hawks freak out. Suggest cutting government subsistance and the bleeding hearts label you … more ›