MARYLAND ; MEDICAL/LIFELINE AND STATE CHILD DISABILITY GROUP HOME; EX;Damauds mother, charged with child abuse, entered an Alford plea in 2009. The plea means she did not admit guilt, but acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to convict her. She has denied hurting Damaud. The state has relied on four contractors to provide services to medically fragile foster children. Last year the state awarded $35 million in contracts to LifeLine, Second Family and two small operators to provide 62 beds with around-the-clock nursing care. A Baltimore Sun investigation of LifeLine this year found that the firm continued to win contracts from the Department of Human Resources despite several problems at its Anne Arundel County operations State health and social services officials are continuing to evaluate ways to improve regulation of group homes for disabled children. Those actions began after Sharfstein and Human Resources Secretary Ted Dallas gave a public briefing to two dozen lawmakers in July on LifeLine and the oversight of group homes for disabled individuals. Sharfstein also established a task force that includes advocates and others to study oversight and present further suggestions by January. The task force is scheduled to meet Wednesday, and again in December and January. In addition, Dallas created a new financial incident form to help his agency improve monitoring of the financial condition of group homes and foster care providers for children in Maryland, he wrote in a letter to lawmakers last month. baltimoresun/news/maryland/sun-investigates/bs-md-lifeline-investigation-20141115-story.html#page=2
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