Tuesday 25 October 2016

Citizen group to appeal Boston Children’s Hospital expansion approval

BOSTON (State House News Service) – Opponents of an expansion at Boston Children’s Hospital are not dropping their fight after the $1 billion project won state approval last week.

A citizen group that has fought against the project, pointing to both a possibility of increased health spending in Massachusetts and the demolition of a popular healing garden on hospital grounds, announced Monday it plans to pursue an administrative appeal of the Public Health Council’s 10-0 vote in support.

The same group, known as the Anne Gamble Ten Taxpayer Group, continues to pursue a lawsuit against the expansion in Suffolk Superior Court.

“On both fronts, we look forward to continuing to press our strong case against this immensely expensive and wrong-headed proposal – this time free of the political pressures that apparently influenced the Public Health Council’s vote,” Gus Murby, a member of the group and lead plaintiff in the court case, said in a statement. For the full article click here 



from health IT caucus http://ift.tt/2eqy4Eu
via IFTTT

No comments:

Post a Comment