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...Cambridge Health Alliance will close six of its primary care facilities and merge them with existing clinics in an effort to decrease expenses in the face of massive state-imposed budget cuts, CHA announced in a press release Wednesday...
Over the next year, CHA will reduce full-time employee positions by 8 percent, through a combination of layoffs, early retirement, and reduced hours, according to the release...
...recent weeks, forming a coalition called “Put Patients First” to urge Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 to steer clear of further cuts to Medicaid. At the same time, city councillors and residents have demanded greater budgetary accountability from the CHA and expressed concerns regarding health service cuts that the alliance had made. At a December council meeting, Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons proposed an order that would have withheld the CHA’s city funding and stopped health clinic closings for the next six months if the alliance failed...
Christmas Eve will mean a lump of coal for senior citizens who use the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center. The Central Square-based health facility, operated by the Cambridge Health Alliance, will close that day. In public meetings, the CHA has cited ongoing budget problems and the inefficiency of operating the center as reasons for shutting the center’s doors. While patients and other residents have said they are upset that the center will be closing, some said that it will not negatively affect their health care. “I have the best of care here...
Several residents, along with Keefe and City Councilor Sam Seidel, said they hoped that health care would be reformed nationwide under President-elect Barack Obama, possibly preventing CHA from needing to reduce its services...