Budget Cuts Have Left Massachusetts Unable To Inspect Food Plants, Hospitals, And Air Quality

Budget Cuts Have Left Massachusetts Unable To Inspect Food Plants, Hospitals, And Air Quality: A half-decade of budget cuts has left Massachusetts’ public health department so understaffed that it cannot keep pace with a massive backlog of safety inspections for public facilities and investigations into Americans’ complaints about medical mismanagement and malpractice. State public health officials are now begging lawmakers for more funding in order to prevent another public [...]/p