Thank you for visiting the website of the families of 43 profoundly brain-damaged individuals cared for at Seven Hills Pediatric Center at Groton, MA. Our goal is to inform you of a decade-old court action that will have life-threatening effects on our loved-ones.
We need your help.

As parents of these individuals we are protesting the state’s plan to move them to small group homes as required by the Rolland Settlement. More about the Rolland Settlement In brief, the settlement states that by 2012, the state must create 640 new community placement slots for the mentally retarded and disabled and transition that number of current nursing home residents into them. The facts are that the individuals at Seven Hills Pediatric Center differ from those that might benefit from the settlement. These individuals need the round-the-clock care provided now to meet their serious medical conditions. In itself, any change to their daily routines has the potential significantly shorten their lives. None of them can talk or walk and all have a mental age of less than one year. Their fragile lives remain thriving and in balance with the care-givers at Seven Hills. A state-mandated placement change ignoring parents' and doctors' opposition can be stopped only with your help.