Assessment vs. reality: Placement in the wrong tier puts developmentally disabled Nebraskans at risk

Service providers say Nebraska's InterRAI assessment changes are creating safety concerns by placing people with ...

Advocates for disabilities community are facing ‘déjà vu’ over proposed budget cuts

People with developmental disabilities, their families and caregivers clawed back most of last year's proposed $400 million in budget cuts to the agency that provides their care, only to find ...

Legislative tussle ahead over Medicaid managed care for people with intellectual disabilities?

Care for people with developmental disabilities could take center stage in health care budget negotiations this year. The ...
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State payments slowed to programs for developmentally disabled?

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Has the budget crisis forced the state to slow down payments to services that help the most vulnerable? There was a court hearing Wednesday over payments to programs that help the ...
The Times Leader

Patterson named newest member of Belmont County Board of Developmental Disabilities

History was made Thursday evening when Hannah Patterson of Martins Ferry was sworn in as the newest member of the Belmont ...
The Columbian

Advocates: 5,000 disabled people in Washington could lose access to services

Local advocates, residents and service providers are sounding the alarm over changes to eligibility criteria for Medicaid-funded disability services included in Gov. Bob Ferguson’s proposed 2026 suppl ...
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Developmentally disabled Missourians suffer abuse, death in state system

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was ...