People
Worth Protecting
Background
& Overview
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this, and the next few pages, we want to provide general information
on the Seven Hills Pediatric Center and a brief history of
the legal struggles we are facing to protect our family members.
This is not a fight we can win alone, any and all support
you can lend to help our cause is greatly appreciated. |
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About
The Seven Hills Pediatric Center |
 Seven
Hills Pediatric Center is a skilled nursing home that is licensed
by the state of Massachusetts to provide 24 hour a day 7 days
a week care to medically fragile individuals who suffer from
severe cognitive impairment and are considered to be of mental
age below 12 months. Each of the roughly 70 long-term-care patients
who reside at the nursing home has been found by a multi-disciplinary
Medical Review Team process to have such cognitive impairment
and to have at least two medical needs requiring routine skilled
nursing attention. All of these patients are non-verbal, understand
little or no speech, and have little or no capacity to communicate.
None are able to dress or feed themselves or to walk or locomote
in any other fashion. Almost all are tube fed, receive multiple
medications for seizure and other disorders, and are moved from
place to place in wheelchairs by nursing assistants. The Pediatric
Center is one of the top facilities of its type in the United
States, and until the early 2000s was managed by Children’s
Hospital, Boston under the name Children’s Extended Care
Center. Under the ownership of Seven Hills Foundation headquartered
in Worcester, Massachusetts, the nursing home’s physical
facilities have been dramatically upgraded. There is an in-facility
day school program, after school activities, and a fleet of
wheel-chair adapted vans to take residents and their aides to
activities in the community. All patients entered the facility
as children, but due to the extraordinary quality of care many
survive into their 30’s and 40’s. For information
on the facility, please visit their website by clicking here.
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