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12/08/98, 3:11 amcst
Finally a Helen L. case
to free people in Tennessee from nursing homes
Gordon Bonnyman and the Tennessee Justice Center filed an historic suit to keep Tennesseans from being forced into institutions. Six people with disabilities are the plaintiffs in the case Newberry v. Menke.
The suite alleges that the state's policies violate the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, which requires that publicly funded services for the disabled be given in the "least restrictive setting possible." The suit also alleges the state violates federal Medicaid requirements to provide necessary home health services.
"The big question here is how you pay for long-term care services if the MCOs have to deliver them." Bonnyman said, "the state's going to have to tell the nursing home industry they're going to have to share'' the $700 million in TennCare funds that go to nursing homes.
Please come by the Memphis Center for Independent Living to read the lawsuit. It doesn't read like many legal documents, it is really well written.
The Memphis Center for Independent Living
1633 Madison Avenue,
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 726-6404 v/tty (901) 726-6521 fax
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