Several studies consistently link poor access to food to poor health outcomes, including heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Project Bread, a Massachusetts’ nonprofit focused on permanently solving food insecurity, teamed up with MassHealth to pilot the Flexible Services Program, or FSP, to bolster food security and meet nutritional needs from birth throughout childhood and beyond, improving health outcomes at every stage of life. Since April 2020, over 7,000 MassHealth members (ranging in age from 0 months to 64 years) with complex health issues were given an array of food resources, including gift cards for groceries, cooking supplies, refrigerators, cooking classes, transportation assistance, and nutrition education.
The so-called "Work and Family Mobility Act" that legislators passed last summer and was upheld by voters in the fall to expand driver's license access to immigrants without legal status will take effect on July 1.
As the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles prepares for nearly 200,000 undocumented immigrants to soon be able to apply for a driver's license, the costs.
BREWER — Between June and December of 2022, Northern Light Health used mobile interpretation devices to interpret 55 different languages, including Cape Verdean Creole, Lingala and Urdu, to provide patient