Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18 s 2).  Memorandums issued by the federal Social Security Administration’s Bureau of Public Assistance through 1958 and after that by the administration proper notified the department of changes in policy and procedures affecting the administration of federally-funded public assistance plans.  Files of such notifications for 1950-1952 were maintained by the department’s Division of Aid and Relief and from 1953 by its successor,  the Division of Public Assistance.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: Eugene N. Foss, active in manufacturing and Democratic politics during the Progressive Era, was governor of Massachusetts, 1911-1914.
Notes: Business and personal records of Eugene N. Foss apparently comprised part of Foss’s estate. They include checkbooks and receipts from the estate, 1938-1942, the Suburban Realty Corporation (Boston), 1938-1939, and the Massachusetts Bond & Mortgage Co. (Boston), 1939-1940; also military draft data and correspondence regarding wartime workers at the Maverick Mills and Northern Rayon Weaving Mills, 1942-1943
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Scope and Content: Cushing Hospital in Framingham, Mass., intended for the care and custody of elderly persons, was purchased by the Commonwealth from the federal government in 1955, opened in 1957 under the Dept. of Mental Health, transferred to the Dept. of Public Health in 1984, and closed in 1991.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 1999
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Scope and Content: Setting of rates to be paid by Massachusetts state agencies to health care institutions (and, from 1975, the approval of all hospital rate increases) was the responsibility successively of the Division of Hospital Costs and Finances (1954-1962, within the Commission on Administration and Finance), the Bureau of Hospital Costs and Finances (1963-1968, within the Executive Office for Administration and Finance), and the Rate Setting Commission (1968-1996, within the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services from 1992)–also known as the Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission). The commission was succeeded in 1996 by the executive office’s Division of Health Care Finance and Policy (DHCFP). From 2003 rates for hospitals were set by  EOHSS itself, as were rates for other health care institutions from 2012, when the division was succeeded by the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). The center, tasked with collecting and providing  analysis of data to assist in the formulation of health care policy, continues to maintain rate setting records.  Public hearings convened by the current rate setting agency are required in order to adopt or amend rates or related regulations. After issuing notice, holding hearings, and observing a public comment period, the agency files rules and regulations with the state secretary for codification in the Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR).
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