Posts filed under: long-term care

May 11, 2010
InformationWeek
HHS Establishes Disability Research Center
The Department of Health and Human Services Office on Disability announced on Monday an award of more than $6 million to establish a research center that will build electronic data models to conduct comparative effectiveness research on disability services and quality of care.
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Filed Under: healthcare, long-term care, public policy, technology

May 10, 2010
KPCC-FM (Pasadena, Calif.)
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.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

March 30, 2010
Twin Cities Daily Planet (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), criminal justice, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision

March 29, 2010
Concord (N.H.) Monitor
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.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

March 27, 2010
Worcester (Mass.) Telegram
Late senator’s son touts health reform
It has been seven months since Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died, so it was a bittersweet occasion Tuesday when President Barack Obama signed into law the health care reform the senator made part of his life’s work, one of his sons said yesterday.
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Filed Under: healthcare, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, long-term care

March 26, 2010
The Annapolis (Md.) Capital
Guest Column: People with disabilities remain an underutilized resource
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act that gave millions of previously forgotten citizens the legal right to more fully participate in American life.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disability awareness, employment, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy

March 23, 2010
The Houston Chronicle
Workers arrested kept jobs at Texas state schools
Employees at state-run centers who were arrested for felonies such as child rape and murder continued on the payroll to care for the mentally disabled, according to criminal fingerprint checks.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, intellectual disability, long-term care, public policy

March 19, 2010
Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
Report: State facility for people with disabilities lacks psychiatrists, trained therapists
Nine months after Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a settlement to improve health care and more quickly investigate reports of abuse and neglect at state institutions for people with mental disabilities, the facility in Corpus Christi doesn't have staff psychiatrists, has therapists who are ill-equipped to work with people with complex needs and doesn't have a clear zero-tolerance policy for abuse and neglect.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, intellectual disability, long-term care

March 16, 2010
The Miami Herald
South Carolina looks to stimulus to restore health services
With dozens of disability advocates watching from the gallery, the S.C. House voted to add $173.6 million of federal money to the state budget to restore proposed cuts to health care services.
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Filed Under: healthcare, long-term care

March 15, 2010
News Channel 7 (Anderson, S.C.)
House Prevents Cuts to Disability Programs
The South Carolina House has found a way to prevent cuts to health and medical programs, including funds for the disabled. But the plan relies on extra money being provided from Congress.
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Filed Under: healthcare, long-term care, public policy

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