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Vero healthcare nursing and rehabilitation centers in Boston, Massachusetts have been sold. The new ownership appears to stem from Springfield. As such ambulance service agreements have changed hands. Vero nursing and rehabilitation centers in the area changed hands only about a few years ago from Roscommon home ownership.

Mass Bay Community College in Framingham, Massachusetts, has suspended the program for Fall 2019 and is no longer taking any applications. The Massachusetts Board of Nursing has asked the school to make some changes after unfavorable survey results. What those changes are though are still something the school is trying to figure out. The school will work with the Board of Nursing to try and find out where they can improve. At this time all students registered for Spring classes can continue without concern. It was earlier this year that Quincy college had there Nursing Program revoked from the state by findings and warnings that came from the Massachusetts Board of Nursing that went mostly unanswered by the school. Since that time the Quincy nursing program was left to refund it's students tuition after the abrupt end and revocation of its teaching status. It is promising that Framingham's Mass Bay Community College is proactively taking the lead in finding and fixing th...

After 2018 held a full year of multiple nursing home closing in Massachusetts, 2019 is slated to start the next round of closings this coming January. Braemoor nursing and rehabilitation of Brockon, Massachusetts, has been managed by NextStep Health care after the previous management company had to turn over the home due to past and reoccurring issues they faced. The closure comes as the nursing home still ranks among the worse nursing homes in the country for patient care. Braemoor Nuring and Rehabilitation in Brockton, MA Synergy Health Centers had chosen NextStep HealthCare to manage all 6 of their Massachusetts based homes last year. The other nursing home locations are found all over between Salem and Sunderland. Sign out side of a NextStep health care nursing home The Synergy Health, owned, nursing home will be one of many across the country set to not make it past the end of January 2019, other home closings are occurring in places such as New York and South Dako...

A new study that came out by Leapfrog , a voluntary survey for hospitals to show transparency to the public, came out and it ranks Massachusetts 4 for overall hospitals with an A rating. The leader of the country was New Jersey. Rhode Island came in at sixth on the list while North Dakota came in last. The A rating accounted for 44% of all the states hospitals, while impressive was close to 10% less than the springs report. New York came in at 46th with just over 8% A rating. The great news is that no hospitals in Massachusetts came in under a C rating. The group's survey comes strictly from a compilation of accidents, errors, infections, and injuries. No other information was obtained or factors used to influence the report. The survey is done by The survey is released by the non profit group twice in the year both the spring and fall. Among the A rated hospitals in the state are: Cape Cod Hospital, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital including Faul...

The Ballot question that has been the stir of controversy and heated disputes between friends, families, and coworkers has been overwhelmingly voted against in the polls. When the "Safe patient limit's," question hit the ticket to be an issue to vote on nurses flocked the streets, news outlets, and social media sites to spread the word that they felt the public was not being adequately cared for in hospitals. Administrators and the other health groups fought back arguing that setting patient limits on nurses would actually do more harm than good and that there needs to be other ways to promote safety in hospitals. The argument has been deeper than this but after a strong fight from both sides of the ballot question, Massachusetts has decided with a resounding NO on question 1 vote. With over 1 million voters, over 70% of them voted NO to defeat the question 1 ballot initiative. Also on the ballot was the question of Election spending commissions, as question 2. This...