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Gov. Maura Healey plans to limit emergency family shelter stays to six months and phase out using hotels for housing
Gov. Maura Healey's office intends to phase out the use of hotels and motels for emergency shelter, seek a legislative change ...
Displaced Steward patients are turning to neighboring hospitals for help, worsening already critical ER overcrowding
Almost three months after two Steward hospitals closed, their neighbors are shouldering the burden of displaced patients.
Playing the Trump card on shelter limits
In her latest attempt to curb ballooning shelter costs, Gov. Maura Healey’s office rolled out a slate of new policies Friday, ...
Massachusetts aims to reduce emergency shelter costs to $350 million per year
The Healey administration is aiming to eventually limit shelter costs to $350 million per year compared to the more than $1 ...
New law aims to shore up and equalize state’s public health services
Massachusetts is mandating new public health performance standards to improve the patchwork of local services responsible for ...