AGREEMENT REACHED IN GBLS AND CO-COUNSEL’S CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT TO EXPAND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN NURSING HOMES TO RETURN TO THE COMMUNITY 

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services announced a settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit Marsters v. Healey brought by GBLS, the Center for Public Representation, Justice in Aging, and the law firm Foley Hoag LLP on behalf of older adults, people with serious mental illness, and people with physical disabilities who are unnecessarily segregated in nursing home institutional settings, and who could be discharged to integrated community-based residential services with all needed wraparound services if the state provided these integrated opportunities. The settlement, subject to court approval, will expand opportunities for at least 2400+ individuals in nursing facilities, including the plaintiffs and thousands of people like them, to receive the services they need to live in their communities of choice.    

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Please click here to read the April 17 Boston Globe editorial: State commits to moving 2,400 people out of nursing homes