Chelsea Soldiers Home

The migrant shelter crisis in Massachusetts is once again in the limelight, as the former Chelsea Soldiers’ Home is set to be turned into a new temporary shelter. The shelter can accommodate about 100 or so families when up and running, Secretary of Veterans Services Dr. Jon Santiago noted in a statement last month, and it’s supposed to be opening…

20 residents will be moving into the newly constructed Veterans Home after the facility obtained licensure as a skilled nursing facility from Department of Public Health this week. The first 20 residents are transitioning into the building on Wednesday, October 18. “Today represents the start of a new chapter when it comes to providing exceptional long-term care for our Massachusetts veterans,” stated...

A veteran assisted living facility in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Veterans’ Services said Monday that it had called in the Department of Public Health after 15 residents and 10 workers at the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home tested positive for COVID-19. Officials say the first positive case came Wednesday, with an event on…