Avert Rolland Tragedy

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Background & Overview

• Seven Hills Pediatric Center »

• The De-Institualization Movement »

• Rolland Vs. Patrick Settlement Agreement »

• The Opposition By The Seven Hills Families »

• Our Outrage »

• Our Thanks »

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In 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.

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. (Website will open in new window)

Background Part 2:
The De-Institualization Movement »