Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Virginia Official Admits State Lags in Moving People into the Community

RICHMOND — Virginia doesn't do nearly as much as it should getting disabled people out of hospitals and functioning in communities, the state's top health and human services official told a state Senate panel Monday.
"This is an area, I think, in which we are extraordinarily inadequate for a lot of reasons," Bill Hazel, Secretary of Health and Human Resources, told members of the Senate Finance Committee.
Hazel introduced plans for the state's $30 million "down payment," a response to a federal investigation into whether the state keeps too many intellectually disabled people in institutions.

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