Posts filed under: Olmsted decision

Jan. 30, 2010
Lawrence Journal-World
Governor faced hospital decision with care, compassion
Faced with the challenging and emotional situation associated with the state’s responsibility to care for thousands of Kansans with various disabilities, there really wasn’t any way for Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson to come up with a plan or solution that would please everyone involved.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, healthcare, intellectual disability, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

Jan. 26, 2010
The Topeka (Kan.) Capital-Journal
Parkinson nears KNI decision
Gov. Mark Parkinson is on the cusp of determining the fate of Kansas Neurological Center in Topeka.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

Jan. 19, 2010
National Public Radio
Advocate For People With Mental Illnesses Dies
Judi Chamberlin, who died this weekend at age 65, was a civil rights hero from a civil rights movement you may have never heard of. She took her inspiration from the heroes of other civil rights movements to start something she liked to call Mad Pride — a movement for the rights and dignity of people with mental illness
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Olmsted decision, profile, psychiatric disability, public policy

Jan. 19, 2010
Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star
Report: Nebraska spent $4 million on BSDC transfer costs
The state has spent about $4.1 million on hospital costs and related services for 47 Beatrice State Developmental Center residents moved to hospitals and nursing homes almost a year ago, according to a report to state senators.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, long-term care, Olmsted decision

Jan. 13, 2010
Capital Public Radio (Sacramento, Calif.)
Disability Advocates Criticize Governor's Budget
Under the governor’s worse-case-scenario-budget the disabled would lose essential equipment like wheelchairs and oxygen tanks. They’re called optional benefits – that means under federal law the state is not required to cover them.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

Jan. 4, 2010
The Topeka (Kan.) Capital-Journal
Some welcome closure of KNI
Russell Hall and his wife, Eva, are saving the state of Kansas money — about $100,000 a year. Hall removed his 30-year-old daughter, Tabatha, from Topeka's Kansas Neurological Institute in 1991, and he and his wife have been caring for her in their home with the help of funds from a Home and Community-Based Services waiver for those with developmental disabilities.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, healthcare, long-term care, Olmsted decision

Jan. 4, 2010
Bangor (Maine) Daily News
Hancock County men with cerebral palsy suing state over housing
The 150-square-foot room has all the comforts of home: a cozy bed, a bureau, a cluttered computer desk. Red Sox posters adorn the walls, and pet fish swim around in a glass tank. There is a private bathroom.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), healthcare, housing, Olmsted decision, physical disability, public policy

Dec. 28, 2009
WRAL-TV (Raleigh, N.C.)
Patients in DHHS lawsuit to keep health services for now
A federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction that blocks the state from terminating two people's community-based mental health services until a lawsuit over the matter goes before the court in a full hearing.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, intellectual disability, long-term care, Olmsted decision

Dec. 27, 2009
The Denver Post
Greene: Colo. funding decision stymies disabled supermom
There's a term, "supercrip," that describes a way of portraying people with disabilities as though it's astonishing that they get out of bed each morning and go about their lives.
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Filed Under: healthcare, housing, language, long-term care, Olmsted decision, physical disability, profile

Nov. 16, 2009
Weekly Albany Legislative Gazette
State submits plan to house mentally ill
In compliance with a federal judge's order, Gov. David A. Paterson announced Nov. 7 that the state had submitted a plan to the court that, if implemented, would offer supported housing to individuals with mental illness who currently reside in certain adult homes in New York City.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), housing, Olmsted decision, psychiatric disability, public policy

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