Gov’t report shows disabled ignored by states and businesses
The National, Council on Disability has written a report on the state of disability access to medical care in the United States. It is a sobering report showing the while some agencies are working hard to help the disabled and to remove barriers, both physical as well as administrative, others ignore virtually all federal laws. [...]
Barrier Free Initiative
Everyone that is disabled runs into situations where we cannot find a place to park or because of stairs, broken elevator, extra doors or other impediment cannot access a business or public building. Most large companies are getting better about making it easy for the disabled to get into the store by removing all stairs [...]
Two hospitals decide to upgrade disability accessibility
In an amazing agreement, two Boston hospitals have agreed to make it easier to gain access to the hospitals and would train workers that have been either indifferent or openly hostile to the disabled. They also agreed to remove physical barriers that made it impossible to get into some of the hospital wards or bathrooms [...]
Disability claims going through the roof
Social Security is reporting that the number of people asking for benefits has increased dramatically this year. Last year 3.3 million people received new disability claims where for 2009 we are already at 3 million people and we still have five months left to go. No one is quite sure why the dramatic increase in [...]
State budgets crushing disabled
The economy has slowly made it impossible for states to take care of the disabled. With so many people out of work, states are not bringing in money like they were before the recession. Income taxes have gone down drastically as well as non payment of property taxes.
Georgia Hospitals Ignored ADA
For years the disabled have found that the hospitals in and around Atlanta have not been helpful to the disabled. They will not get you a waffle bed while you are in emergency or even after you are admitted. While in emergency they will not give you medication that you need to live.
Hospital staff hands out hepatitis C to patients
When one enters the hospital you expect to be safe. The instruments that are used on you are expected to be sterilized and needles are to be immediately thrown out. Unfortunately, that is not what has been happening for the last thirty years and the medical community is not planning on fixing the problem any [...]
Disabled lose permission to pick doctors
One of the biggest changes for the newly disabled includes others making decisions for them. While this is a good idea in situations where the person is in the hospital and unconscious, most other times it is a loss of rights. Spinal cord injuries do not always effect the brain, and as such, those without [...]
Swine Flu and SCI
We normally don’t point out articles that are not specifically tied to the disabled community, but Swine Flu is an exception. This bug has gone from complete obscurity to front page fame in just a few days. The scary part of this flu is it’s capability of killing those in the 10 – 45 year [...]
Hospital Frustration
An Unbelievable Exasperating Experience…
We’re sure that many of you have gone through an experience at the hospital where it was just so unbelievable exasperating that you didn’t know what to do first. The letter below that I wrote to a hospital that Greg stayed at; I stumbled into the other day and was able to [...]
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