WHITE CLOUD, Mich. -- 11-year-old Bailey Robinson, who has autism and epilepsy, will be allowed to play little league baseball games with kids his own age.
Bailey's coach originally said that he was concerned having Bailey play on the team because he could get hurt.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Center Residents File Lawsuit Against N.J. Officials
The suit was filed last week by the York Legal Group, based in Harrisburg, Pa., in U.S. District Court in Camden, and seeks an injunction to stop the state from closing the VDC. It comes as the five-member state developmental center task force, formed earlier this year in Trenton, conclude their research and begin the process of deciding which of New Jersey’s seven developmental centers to close. Officials believe a decision will be made some time in July.
Question Abound in New Hampshire Over Privately Managed Medicaid
While the state of New Hampshire decides whether to approve its
largest vendor contract ever -- $2.3 billion to hire three companies to
manage the care of some 140,000 Medicaid recipients over three years
starting in December -- questions still remain over how a managed care program would work, both financially and in terms of providing health services.
Among the questions:
• Would the state really save $30 million in the first year the program is launched -- a figure already written in the budget -- and even more in the coming years?
• Would providers get paid on time (especially at first), and would that payment be enough for them to participate in the program at all?
• Would the care of recipients -- particularly the developmentally disabled and elderly in nursing homes --improve or suffer?
Among the questions:
• Would the state really save $30 million in the first year the program is launched -- a figure already written in the budget -- and even more in the coming years?
• Would providers get paid on time (especially at first), and would that payment be enough for them to participate in the program at all?
• Would the care of recipients -- particularly the developmentally disabled and elderly in nursing homes --improve or suffer?
Report: Environment Key to Preventing Childhood Disabilities
The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines.
That's the key conclusion of Prevention of Disability in Children: Elevating the Role of Environment, a new paper co-authored by a Simon Fraser University researcher. The paper is in the May issue of the Future of the Children journal, which is produced by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution.
That's the key conclusion of Prevention of Disability in Children: Elevating the Role of Environment, a new paper co-authored by a Simon Fraser University researcher. The paper is in the May issue of the Future of the Children journal, which is produced by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Judge: Georgia Discriminating Against Deaf People with Disabilities
ATLANTA -- Georgia is discriminating against people who are deaf and developmentally disabled by denying them access to services, a federal
judge has found.
In a recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Richard Story said the state has failed to provide appropriate group home care to such individuals, and does not have enough mental health care practitioners who are proficient in American Sign Language.
In a recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Richard Story said the state has failed to provide appropriate group home care to such individuals, and does not have enough mental health care practitioners who are proficient in American Sign Language.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Feds: Sheltered Workshops May Violate ADA
The Obama administration is coming out in support of a group of adults with developmental disabilities who say they’re being relegated to sheltered workshops even though they’re capable of working in the community.
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in late April in a class action lawsuit pitting some 2,300 people with developmental disabilities against the state of Oregon.
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in late April in a class action lawsuit pitting some 2,300 people with developmental disabilities against the state of Oregon.
Jury Awards $2.9 Million Against D.C. for Negligent Care
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A D.C. jury has awarded $2.9 million in what is believed to be the largest verdict against the District over the negligent care of a mentally disabled resident.
The judgment in U.S. District Court on April 18 was the climax of a decade-old lawsuit against the city by the family of Curtis Suggs, who suffered from profound developmental disabilities and cerebral palsy and died in 2000 at age 68. Suggs spent more than three decades in the District’s long-troubled system for the mentally disabled, surviving until a treatable spinal condition erupted in the last five years of his life into the maladies that contributed to his death.
The judgment in U.S. District Court on April 18 was the climax of a decade-old lawsuit against the city by the family of Curtis Suggs, who suffered from profound developmental disabilities and cerebral palsy and died in 2000 at age 68. Suggs spent more than three decades in the District’s long-troubled system for the mentally disabled, surviving until a treatable spinal condition erupted in the last five years of his life into the maladies that contributed to his death.
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