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 10. The commandant of the Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts may establish a program for the training of residents in medicine, surgery, urology and such other specialties and sub-specialties of medicine as he may deem advisable. The persons undergoing such training shall be designated as follows and shall be eligible for training grants from the […]
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. 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. (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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 […]
Section 8. The Soldiers’ Homes, after a determination and approval of the trustees of the respective Homes, that it is in the best interest of the patients, may lease, upon such terms and conditions as may be stipulated by said trustees, sufficient land belonging to such Soldiers’ Home for the purpose of constructing thereon chapels […]
Section 9. Domiciliary facilities within the limitation of physical facilities, are hereby authorized for the admission of female veterans at the Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts. Female veterans seeking admission shall be subject to all requirements, both federal and state, as may presently apply to other veteran applicants and services provided for domiciliary care shall be […]
