Lancaster is a member of the NAHB District. The Nashoba Associated
Boards of Health is an association framed under the provisions of
MGL c. 111, § 27A, for the purpose of promoting a higher
standard of public health in the towns of the Nashoba District by
a group effort. The Association consists of the Boards of Health of
the Towns of Ashburnham, Ashby, Ayer, Berlin, Bolton, Boxboro, Dunstable,
Groton, Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Shirley, Pepperell
and Townsend.
In matters pertaining to an individual town, the Association
shall have no voice. Such matters shall be handled as strictly local
problems between the local board of health concerned and the individual
Director of Public Health acting to his official capacity as the Board's
employee. Every member town shall pay its share of the services of
the Nashoba program whether or not it makes full use of all of said
services.
The Director of Public Health shall be the agent of the Boards
of Health of the member towns. He and the employed personnel shall
perform such duties and receive such compensation as the Association
shall determine and, insofar as their duties in any given town are
concerned, shall be the employees of and responsible of the Board
of Health of said town.
Nashoba Nursing Service and Hospice is a subdivision of the
Association and includes the provision of skilled nursing services
and other therapeutic services to those towns, which are members of
the Association for these services.
