Why won’t the Commonwealth admit that it made a mistake by placing most Seven Hills at Groton residents above age 18 on its Community Placement List?
Perhaps the state fears that the Rolland Settlement Agreement would unravel if the 5% of the planned transferees whose families oppose it were recognized as not actually suitable for community placement. Possibly the Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) is simply incapable of recognizing who can and who cannot benefit from being placed in group homes. This despite the fact that ordinary individuals not employed by the Department find it “a no-brainer” (to quote State Senator Steven Panagiotakos of Lowell) that the Seven Hills patients require the kind of care that only a skilled nursing facility can provide. 6. Why does Massachusetts ARC support the plaintiffs’ attorneys? The few individuals who are too cognitively impaired to benefit from group home transfers and too medically fragile to be safely moved are a much smaller group than are the overwhelmingly higher-functioning individuals with mental retardation who constitute the ARC’s main constituency.
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