Deinstitutionalization
Feds direct states to strengthen home and community-based care
The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services issued a bulletin August 3, urging states to continue reducing their reliance on institutions in their Medicaid long-term services and supports, LTSS. The bulletin provides a series of recommendations to state Medicaid programs.…
More than a hundred disability rights protesters arrested in Washington D.C.
Disability rights activists stormed the nation’s capital last week, demanding that the federal government do more to deinstitutionalize people with disabilities. “I was in a nursing home and I have too many brothers and sisters still locked away because they…
Lawsuit tackles Ohio residential and employment segregation
Disability Rights Ohio, the Center for Public Representation, Sidley Austin LLP and attorney Samuel Bagenstos hit the state of Ohio with a class-action lawsuit [PDF] March 31, accusing it of unnecessarily institutionalizing thousands of people with developmental disabilities,…
ADAPT holds week of protests in Salt Lake City
Hundreds of activists stormed the Utah state capitol during the last week of September, calling on elected officials and other influential figures to end the institutional bias in its distribution of public services. “We are here to pressure the Governor…
Judge orders Illinois to resume provider payments
Responding to pressure from disability advocates, a federal judge has ordered the state of Illinois to resume payments to providers of services for people with disabilities mandated under a court-approved settlement. In 2011, the state of Illinois, in a case…
Disability Rights International calls for end of segregating people with disabilities
Disability Rights International is calling the global community to action – specifically, to stop human rights violations against people with disabilities worldwide. Since their foundation in 1993, Disability Rights International’s purpose has been to work for people with disabilities on…
Report highlights continued growth of community-based Medicaid services
Medicaid is continuing to make progress redirecting funding from institutional care toward more integrated, home and community-based services. According to a new report [PDF], funded by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the percentage of national Medicaid funding…
Report uncovers black sites, caged children with disabilities in Mexico City
Disability Rights International released an extensive report [PDF] July 22, documenting a range of abuses of children and adults with disabilities in government-run facilities across Mexico City. In one harrowing example, featured in a video from ABC News, children are isolated in rooms lined with cages and cribs. As detailed in the report, many of these children have been confined there for years, as evident by extensive atrophy in their arms and legs and failing body organs.