Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Foundation announces 2 grants to help uninsured, homeless with health care
Posted on April 10, 2010 - Filed Under Health & Fitness | Leave a Comment
Waltham, Mass January 22 2004–The Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation announced today it has awarded two grants totaling $50,000 to help provide health care to the homeless, low-income and uninsured in the City of Boston and in southern Berkshire county.
Women of Means, a Wellesley-based nonprofit agency that provides free health care to homeless or marginally-housed women in the city of Boston, received $20,000, and the Free Health Care Center Fund in the southern Berkshire county community of Sheffield, Mass.
, was awarded $30,000.
Massachusetts Medical Society testifies in ’strong support’ of Senate 2145, An Act for a Caring Commonwealth
Posted on December 12, 2009 - Filed Under Health & Fitness | Leave a Comment
Boston, MA February 11, 2004–The Massachusetts Medical Society, the 18,000-member statewide association of physicians, today testified before the legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Care in ???strong support?? of Senate 2145, ???An Act for a Caring Commonwealth.??
Drafted by Senator Richard T. Moore, Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care, the proposed legislation sets forth three objectives: (1) that there be a health care policy for the Commonwealth, (2) that it be based on clearly defined operational goals, and (3) that a mechanism be established to include all major stakeholders to oversee the implementation of the policy.