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April 30, 2009

Boston's Health Center for the Blind Closes

The Greater Boston Guild for the Blind, the city’s only adult day health-care center for the visually impaired, will stop serving clients tomorrow, a victim of rising costs and declining donations, The Boston Globe reports.

The facility in the West Roxbury area will officially wind up operations in June. Its 15 employees will be laid off, and clients are being referred to other adult day centers across the region.

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