One of the Best Hospitals in the Country Is Accused of Doing One of the Worst Things Imaginable to Families…Again

One of the Best Hospitals in the Country Is Accused of Doing One of the Worst Things Imaginable to Families…Again | TheBlaze.com:

There is a hospital consistently ranked among the top in the United States in various pediatric fields. It has been hailed as having the best physicians and is the teaching hospital for the No. 1 medical school in the country.

LePage stands by DHHS commissioner in wake of ‘incompetence’ claims

LePage stands by DHHS commissioner in wake of ‘incompetence’ claims — Politics — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine:

AUGUSTA, Maine — After months of performance problems and scandals racked the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, Gov. Paul LePage on Thursday lodged a full-throated defense of embattled Commissioner Mary Mayhew.

Drugging Kids— Side Effects

This Morning - Social Services debate- 5 December 2013

Head of DCF won't claim responsibility in department scandal

Head of DCF won't claim responsibility in department scandal - Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston:

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- The Commissioner of Department of Children and Families (DCF) says she can be "objective" in a top down review of its own failings related to the case involving Jeremiah Oliver, a 5-year-old missing boy from Fitchburg.

Steven Orloff, former foster father, charged with online sex abuse

Steven Orloff, former foster father, charged with online sex abuse - UPI.com:

BOSTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A former foster father and Massachusetts school official posed as a 14-year-old boy online to get girls to strip for him on camera, federal prosecutors say.

DCF combing through cases of two fired social workers

DCF combing through cases of two fired social workers | Boston Herald:

Officials at the Department of Children and Families are scrambling to review the cases of two fired state child welfare workers they say failed a missing 5-year-old Fitchburg boy, whose disappearance authorities are investigating as a “possible homicide.”