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Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Soldiers` Home in Holyoke
The Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke provides health care and supportive services to honorably discharged Massachusetts veterans with non-service related health problems who live in Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Hampshire counties. Veterans with intensive medical needs occupy the Home’s 260 long-term care beds. Each day, 45 long-term care patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and other brain disorders participate in therapeutic activities in the Home’s elder day care program, which is run primarily by volunteers. In addition, the Soldiers’ Home operates an outpatient clinic which handles more than 10,000 visits each year, and a dormitory unit which provides housing and supportive services to an additional 30 veterans each year. Social work and supportive care services are also available to Home residents and other eligible veterans.
Budget Recommendations
The Fiscal Year 2000 budget recommendation includes $111,280 for expansion of the dental clinic. Currently providing 12 hours of dental service to the veteran community, the Home will now offer 40 hours of service each week. In addition, the budget includes the establishment of a $33,120 retained revenue account for the operation of an outpatient pharmacy program. The pharmacy will dispense prescriptions in conjunction with a patient’s visit to the outpatient clinic.
Budgetary Direct Appropriations
| SOLDIERS` HOME IN HOLYOKE |
| 4190-0100 |
For the operation of the soldiers` home in Holyoke, including the adult day care program and dementia unit
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14,819,744 |
Budgetary Retained Revenues
| HOLYOKE SOLDIERS` HOME PHARMACY CO-PAYMENT RETAINED REVENUE |
| 4190-0102 |
The soldiers` home in Holyoke is hereby authorized to expend for the outpatient pharmacy program an amount not to exceed $33,120 from co-payments which it is hereby authorized to charge to users of said program; provided, that the rates of said co-payments and the procedures for the administration thereof shall annually be determined by the superintendent of said soldiers` home and approved by the secretary of health and human services
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33,120 |
| HOLYOKE SOLDIERS` HOME LICENSE PLATE FEES RETAINED REVENUE |
| 4190-1100 |
The soldiers` home in Holyoke is hereby authorized to expend for facility maintenance and patient care an amount not to exceed $88,000; provided, that 40 per cent of all revenues generated pursuant to section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, through the purchase of license plates with the designation VETERAN by eligible veterans of the commonwealth, upon compensating the registry of motor vehicles for the costs associated with said license plates, shall be deposited into and for the purposes of this account; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, said soldiers` home may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate therefor as reported in the state accounting system
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88,000 |
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