Mass. lawmakers must move to enact essential nursing home reform
Updated May 12, 2021, 7:15 a.m.
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The article âFamilies forced to rethink elder care optionsâ (Page A12, May 9) identifies an important lesson learned from the tragedy of the pandemic: COVID-19 amplified long-existing deficiencies in long-term care. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, some two-thirds of Massachusetts nursing homes have not been inspected since well before the virus hit. This is unacceptable in a state that prides itself on health care leadership. Nursing homes, if they are to exist at all, must experience transformative change. Senate Bill 414 and House Bill 727 would make a great start at reform.
Where once American history courses focused on our country’s founding principles, soon such courses started to emphasize political activism and the grievances of various subgroups in American society.
Parents may have noticed a change in the history and social studies curriculum at their children’s schools after 2018. Where once American history courses focused on our country’s founding principles, their roots, and their application, soon such courses started to emphasize political activism and the grievances of various subgroups in American society.
At the time of their adoption, the 2003 standards were fully supported by the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education (David Driscoll), State Board of Education, Governor’s Office, and key legislators. Members of the State Board of Education included at the time Charles Baker, James Peyser, and Abby Thernstrom. The standards had been approved by the Board in 2002 but were not released until 2003. At most grade levels, the sta
In the face of service cuts, others push for MBTA to move in the opposite direction entirely
Updated December 16, 2020, 2:30 a.m.
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When will we start treating T like essential service it is?
Bravo to your two op-ed writers on Monday, Dr. Jon Santiago and Abdallah Fayyad (âProtect essential workers by protecting MBTA serviceâ and âPublic transit should be freeâ). Cut MBTA service during a pandemic? Run fewer trains and buses, thereby inviting overcrowding? Curtail or eliminate night service on which night-shift workers, including those in health care, rely? Put more hurt on economically disadvantaged communities, which are already reeling from job losses and food and child-care challenges?