This one will be interesting to see the outcome. From what I have seen, there is more emphasis on working with people to live in a home environment instead of being in a facility, but each case I am guessing has to be looked at on it’s own, but on the other hand if we have the “money” issue coming in to play this could be a whole new ball game if the nursing facilities are worried over losing revenue over not having all the beds full. This looks to be a pretty large class action suit that has been filed. BD
Most of the people come here to die, so you want to die," he said. "It is a prison. I can't escape it." Lee is among the Medicaid recipients across Florida challenging the nightmare of the old and disabled: to be forced from comfort and familiarity into a nursing home. They say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes when they should be able to live where they choose. Advocates charge that nursing homes, afraid of losing money, have successfully pressured politicians to make qualifying for community care more difficult. They have filed a federal lawsuit seeking class-action status on behalf of nearly 8,500 institutionalized Floridians.
John Boyd, 50, has been in a nursing home for the last nine years. He hates them. He became a quadriplegic 36 years ago when he fell off a wall and broke his neck.
"I can't choose what meal I want, I can't have a visitor after 8 o'clock - it's just like a prison without bars," he said. "People are making decisions for and about me that don't even know me or even care about me. All they care about is the money they're getting for me."
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