Section 10a – Practical Nurses; Education and Training Program; Default on Obligation to Complete Employment Requirement or Repay Costs; Penalties
Section 10A. (a) The commandant of the Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts may establish a program for the education and training of practical nurses and promulgate regulations to govern the program. The commonwealth may provide the education and training at no cost to the program participants, apart from fees and uniforms. A participant completing the education […]
Section 11 – Insurance Covering Buildings and Contents
Section 11. The trustees of the Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts may insure the buildings of the said home and contents thereof in such amounts as they deem sufficient over and above any insurance coverage purchased by the commonwealth.
Section 12 – Office of Veterans' Homes and Housing; Executive Director; Employees; Powers and Duties; Annual Report
Section 12. (a) There shall be within the department of veterans’ services an office of veterans’ homes and housing. The commissioner of veterans’ services shall appoint an executive director of veterans’ homes and housing who shall have: (i) at least 5 years of management, healthcare experience and (ii) military or other experience working with veterans. […]
Section 1 – Benefits of Soldiers' Homes; Persons Entitled
Section 1. Any person who (a) is a veteran as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four, or (b) meets all the requirements of said clause Forty-third, except that instead of performing wartime service as so defined, has performed not less than ninety days’ active service in any of the campaigns or […]
Section 2 – Service Defined
Section 2. Service referred to in section one shall mean service during any of the following periods, both dates inclusive: — (a) Mexican Border Service, between June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen and February third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, provided, that such service was in the Massachusetts National Guard; (b) Cuban Pacification Campaign, between October […]
Section 3 – Persons Not Entitled to Benefits
Section 3. No person shall be entitled to the treatment, admission or hospitalization referred to in sections one and two, unless at the time of his application for such treatment, admission or hospitalization he has actually resided within the commonwealth continuously for five years next preceding the date of such application. The burden of proof […]
Section 4 – Persons Serving in Polish Armed Forces During World War I
Section 4. Any person who was recruited in the United States and who served in the military service of Poland while said country was allied with the United States in World War I, between October seventh, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, both dates inclusive, shall be entitled to out-patient […]
Section 5 – Trustees of Soldiers' Homes; Rules and Regulations
Section 5. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the trustees of the Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts and the trustees of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke from adopting, issuing and promulgating reasonable rules and regulations governing out-patient treatment at, admission to, and hospitalization in, including an increase in any charges, subject to the […]
Section 6 – Patients Funds; Disposition
Section 6. So much of any funds known as ”Patients Funds” as represents monies belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, patients or members who have been discharged or voluntarily departed from, or died at, either of said Homes, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than three years, shall be paid by the […]
Section 7 – Unclaimed Funds of Former Patients; Disposition
Section 7. If a patient at either of such Homes is discharged therefrom or dies therein while obligated to the commonwealth for support furnished him at such Home and there is in the custody of the superintendent of such Home a bank book representing a deposit account in a bank, as defined in section one […]