Massachusetts
Boston Globe Spotlight reporter Kay Lazar details how out-of-state owners bought dozens of Massachusetts nursing homes, siphoning profits while patient care suffered.
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We learn about upcoming Stockbridge Munsee Homelands Powwow and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.
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Today we discuss a newly released report on sexual abuse in the Mass. Catholic dioceses, profit squeezes on nursing homes that result in a decline in care, upcoming voting in Franklin County on funding and regionalization.
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