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Chicago Tribune

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.

Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, long-term care, Olmsted decision, psychiatric disability, public policy

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