2018胡桃山音樂營排定7/19-8/12

中華表演藝術基金會  Foundation For Chinese Performing Arts               3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773 ChinesePerformingArts.net Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net  The 27th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill 胡桃山音樂營 July 19 - August 12, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Application Deadline: April 5   Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net www.ChinesePerformingArts.net LOCATION: Walnut Hill School for the Arts,  12 Highland St., Natick, MA 01760.  About 15 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts. APPLICATION DEADLINE April 5, 2018 Late application will be considered depending upon space availability. Application fee: US $70 AGE AND ENROLLMENT: Age 14 or above. Total enrollment 45 students. No upper age limit. Special arrangement is required for applicant younger than 13. Faculty 2018 (alphabetically) Piano Jonathan Bass,  Tema Blackstone Bruce Brubaker Wha Kyung Byun, Piano Master Class Hung-Kuan Chen  陳宏寬,  Pi-Hsien Chen  陳必先 Ya-Fei Chuang 莊雅斐 Alexander Korsantia  Meng-Chieh Liu  劉孟捷 Victor Rosenbaum Russell Sherman, Piano Master Class Minsoo Sohn , Mana Tokuno Violin James Buswell ,  Lynn Chang張萬鈞 Nicholas Kitchen,  Magdalena Richter Kristopher Tong Viola Jessica Bodner,  Hsin-Yun Huang  黃心芸 Scott Lee 李捷琦,  Mai Motobuchi Cello Yeesun Kim Laurence Lesser, Cello Master Class Carol Ou  歐逸青,  Sam Ou 歐维聖 Bion Tsang  章雨亭  Composition: Yang Yong 楊勇  Chamber Music Master Class Yehudi Wyner Benjamin Zander  Clarinet:  Thomas Hill  Flute : Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin  Saxophone : Kenneth Radnofsky  PROGRAM: Two to Three private lessons per week for piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, composition, and others (upon request). Chamber Ensembles Orchestral Performances Master Classes Stage presentation workshop Concerts with faculty members and students Attending concert at Tanglewood Music Center, visiting Norman Rockwell Museum, and others Visits to New England Conservatory, Harvard University, Museum of Fine Arts, and other historical sites in the metropolitan Boston area (subject to schedule availability)                                     AUDITION Live audition and/or DVD/YouTube audition is required for all applicants except students recommended by faculty members. Returning students should contact Director Dr. Catherine Tan Chan 譚嘉陵 f or waving the audition. Application forms and fees are required for all applicants including returning students. Each applicant should prepare at least two contrasting pieces or two contrasting movements of the same piece of his/her own choice that will represent his/her musical level and achievement. Live audition is required for Taiwan and/or China. DVD/YouTube audition is required for Hong Kong, US, Canada, China, and other countries.  CONTACT; Taiwan: Applicants from Taiwan will be auditioned in Taipei by Professors 黃維明, 林明慧, 鍾曉青.  The exact date and location will be arranged by Mrs. Meir Chen陳美娥 Phone:+886 2 22302162,  Fax: +886 2 22306222, Mobile: 886-910-381-528, Email: meir.chen88@gmail.com. China: Ms.  Jonie Qiuning Huang, Shanghai Conservatory of Music.  黄秋宁, 上海音乐学院教师 Phone: + 86-136-519-07568 (for text only). Email: huangqiuning@shcmusic.edu.cn, Wechat: Jonieplaythepiano Dr. Haobing Zhu , Assistant Professor, Shanghai Normal University. 朱昊冰博士, 上海师范大学教师 Phone : ＋86-177-210-22602 (for text only). Email: bingpiano@foxmail.com. wechat: 17721022602    Hong Kong, US, Canada and other countries: Applicants should submit a recently prepared DVD or YouTube to the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, 3 Partridge Lane, Lincoln, MA 01773.  Foundation@ChinesePerformingArts.net. It will be presented to faculty members for evaluation. Piano Concerto Competition 2018: This year 2018, the concerto piece is Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54  The concerto concert with Mercury Orchestra is on Saturday, 8/11/2018, 8 pm, at Harvard Sanders Theatre.  The competition will be held on Friday, July 27, 2018, 2:30 pm (To Be Comfirmed) before faculty members, invited jury, and Channing Yu, conductor of Mercury Orchestra. Here is a list of concerti performed since 1996. Lang Lang, Yeol-Eum Son, Max Tan, Eric Lu, among others have played. http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/festival/index-Orchestra.htm TUITION: There is a non-refundable application fee of US $70 for each application. The tuition is US $3,000. Financial Aid ranging from US $500 to $1,000 will be awarded to qualified applicants on financially needed basis.    UPCOMING EVENTS -----------------     Saturday, 1/27/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Pi-Hsien Chen  陳必先, pianist    Saturday, 3/31/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,                                                    Angelo Xiang Yu 于翔 violin    Andrew Hsu             徐鴻,piano    The 27th Annual  All-American Chinese  Brush Painting and Calligraphy Competition   (April 15, 2018)  全美青少年國畫書法比賽    Roger Wong 黃汝琛, age 13, Liu Xiaoyong Studi, MA麻州劉曉勇畫室 Kaden Chen 陳萬盛, age 11, Ichen Art Academy, CA 加州宜真美術學院 Saturday, 5/12/2018, 8 pm, Jordan Hall,  Dang Thai-Son 鄧泰山, pianist   The 27th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill  胡桃山音樂營 July 19-August 12, 2018 Concerto 2018: Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54   We Need Your Support Support us make a   Donation www. 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AG HEALEY SUES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER FOR ILLEGALLY BILLING MASSHEALTH FOR UNLICENSED AND UNSUPERVISED PATIENT CARE

AG HEALEY SUES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER FOR ILLEGALLY BILLING MASSHEALTH FOR UNLICENSED AND UNSUPERVISED PATIENT CARE

Allegations Concern 17 Mental Health Facilities Across Massachusetts

BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey has sued South Bay Mental Health Center, Inc. (SBMHC) for fraudulently billing the state’s Medicaid Program, known as MassHealth, for mental health care services provided to patients by unlicensed, unqualified, and unsupervised staff members at clinics across the state.

“This company provided substandard care to many vulnerable patients and fraudulently billed the state for its inadequate services,” said AG Healey. “MassHealth members deserve competent treatment from qualified individuals, and our office will continue to take action in order to remove these significant barriers to accessing critical mental health care in our state.”

            SBMHC operates mental health facilities across the state including in Attleboro, Brockton, Cape Cod, Chelsea, Dorchester, Fall River, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Salem, Springfield, Weymouth, and Worcester. 

            The AG’s investigation into these allegations began after a whistleblower lawsuit was filed by a former SBMHC employee in August 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

            The AG’s investigation revealed that SBMHC had a widespread pattern of employing unlicensed, unqualified, and unsupervised staff at its mental health facilities in violation of MassHealth regulations. The complaint alleges that by submitting claims to MassHealth for mental health services provided by unlicensed and unsupervised personnel, the company submitted fraudulent claims in violation of the Massachusetts False Claims Act. 

The AG’s Office alleges that all of the 17 clinics named in the complaint featured significant gaps in licensing and supervision of therapists during the relevant time period. Many of the employees at SBMHC clinics who were performing mental health services did not have degrees in social work (and therefore were not even license-eligible) and instead had degrees in such areas as expressive therapy, art therapy, creative arts therapy, school counseling, somatic counseling, and agency counseling. For example, the Attleboro Clinic, which had 125 employees, had only two licensed supervisors who could not have possibly provided the necessary supervision to all of the other unlicensed clinicians.

            From August 2009 to the present, MassHealth and its contracted managed care entities paid SBMHC more than $123 million for outpatient services including mental health counseling, such as psychiatric diagnostic evaluations and psychotherapy. The AG’s Office estimates that a significant portion of that $123 million was based on fraudulent claims for services rendered by unlicensed, unqualified, and unsupervised staff to more than 30,000 MassHealth members. 

            The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court against SBMHC and Peter J. Scanlon, who founded and owned the company until April 2012. The complaint also names H.I.G. Growth Partners, LLC and H.I.G. Capital, LLC (collectively, HIG), which created Community Intervention Services (CIS) to acquire SBMHC from Scanlon, as well as co-founder and CEO of CIS, Kevin P. Sheehan.

            The AG’s Office alleges that HIG, CIS, Scanlon, and Sheehan knew that SBMHC was providing services in violation of regulatory requirements and did not bring SMBHC operations into compliance or make any attempts to repay the money owed to MassHealth, as required by law. HIG allegedly cited the large profit margins as a reason to acquire the company.

MassHealth pays for mental health services provided to MassHealth members by qualified clinicians and counselors who are subject to certain licensure and supervision requirements. Mental health centers that employ those rendering mental health services must comply with certain core staffing and supervision requirements set out in applicable regulations.

Through this lawsuit, the AG’s Office is seeking treble damages, civil penalties, and prejudgment interest.

This case is being handled by Assistant Attorneys General Robyn Dollar, Gregory Matthews, and Kevin Lownds, along with Investigations Supervisors Denise Long and Lisa Bailey and Auditor Kaleigh Ross, all of the AG’s Medicaid Fraud Division, with substantial assistance from Special Agent Joseph Losavio of the Office of the Inspector General.

紐英崙中華公所主席陳家驊連任就職典禮(謝開明圖片輯)

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陳家驊連任紐英崙中華公所主席，就職致詞。

紐英崙中華公所新屆職員，左起，雷國輝，珠蘇珊，陳家驊，

陳文浩，周樹昂。

駐波士頓經濟文化辦事處處長賴銘琪(左)頒賀狀

給紐英崙中華公所主席陳家驊。

駐波士頓經濟文化辦事處處長賴銘琪致詞。

駐波士頓經濟文化辦事處副處長陳銘俊致詞。

左起，張桂英，謝如鍵，陳裕逢等客家鄉親和波士頓僑務委員

蔣宗壬(右二)。

麻州眾議員麥家威(Aaron Michlewitz)致詞。

右起，陳裕禮，麥家威，陳毓璇，蔣宗壬，陳銘俊與僑界大眾觀禮。

陳家驊剛動過手術，拄著拐杖出席就職典禮。左為雷國輝。