Feds Settle with Ga. Over Mentally Ill Residents
The Justice Department has reached an agreement with Georgia over a long-running case involving what critics say is the unlawful segregation of residents with mental illness and developmental disabilities in state psychiatric hospitals.
Disability advocacy group seeks closure of Booneville center
An advocacy group for the disabled called on Gov. Mike Beebe today to close the Booneville Human Development Center because of inadequate patient care, including the recent death of a resident who choked on a sandwich.
Lynn man takes awareness on road
For most people, the prospects of undertaking a cross-country trip is daunting. Not for Matt Eddy of Lynn, who set out yesterday morning on his second coast-to-coast trek to raise money and awareness for the disease he lives with, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and to set a Guinness World Record for fastest cross-country trip by wheelchair.
Disabled Face Hard Choices as States Slash Medicaid
Tandem forces of shrinking state budgets and rising health-care costs have collided and struck a small brick ranch house in this rural town, home to Barbara Hickey.
Disability rights advocates split over closure of Lanterman center
The Lanterman Development Center in Pomona cares for people who are developmentally disabled. It’s named for Frank Lanterman — the Republican lawmaker who was the driving force behind changes in California’s care of the mentally disabled in the 1960s. He fought to improve care at state-run facilities. Now the one that bears his name is due to close. At a recent Sacramento hearing, advocates for the disabled were split over the closure.
Minnesota: Saying “sorry” for treatment of persons with disabilities
Manny Steinman was only a child during the eight years he spent at Faribault State Hospital, but some things he’ll never forget.
Disability waiting list mustn’t return
There was cause for celebration only a few short months ago, when the state’s waiting list for people who qualify for services for the developmentally disabled was finally eliminated. But the joy was short-lived and replaced by trepidation.
New hope for Illinois’ mentally ill nursing-home residents
Thousands of psychiatric patients are likely to move out of nursing homes and into community-based settings in the next five years under a landmark legal agreement designed to reshape Illinois’ troubled long-term care system.
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie pledges to restore $2M to move disabled to new housing
The Christie administration today pledged to restore a $2 million budget cut made last month, paving the way for 14 people with developmental disabilities who were waiting to leave institutional care for community housing to relocate as soon as possible, a state official confirmed.
Judge Orders New York City to Move Mentally Ill Out of Large, Institutional Housing
New York State must begin moving thousands of people with mental illness into their own apartments or small homes and out of large, institutional adult homes that keep them segregated from society, a federal judge ordered on Monday.
