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The state Executive Office of Elder Affairs cited the facility for seven deficiencies, four of which were repeat problems.
Top Massachusetts officials are suggesting the state consider new ways to regulate and finance so-called affordable assisted ...
A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more ...
Elderly residents – some in wheelchairs and some dependent on oxygen tanks – were blinded by deadly smoke as they tried to ...
A former employee said she never saw the staff perform fire drills. The local fire chief pushed back at claims that ...
A fire broke out at about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday a Fall River assisted living residence, which drew nearly 50 firefighters to ...
You could have had 100 firefighters show up on that scene and it wouldn’t have been enough,” Jeffrey Bacon said at a news ...
River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon deferred all questions about the fire investigation to the Massachusetts Department of Fire ...
Gabriel House had seen better days. The 100-unit assisted-living facility that burned Sunday night, killing nine people so ...
Assisted living residences are allowed to come up with their own plans for staffing, the state only requires it be reasonable to address the needs of residents. In the case of Gabriel House, the last ...
Members of a commission working on new regulations that would change the way assisted living facilities are run met on Tuesday and discussed how a fatal fire in Fall River could impact their efforts.