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Seattle homes open to AIDS patients.
In Washington State last fall, AIDS patients and their kin filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) . They contended that 42 nursing homes, about half the total in King County (Seattle, etc.), barred AIDS patients.
A consumers' guidebook prepared by the county ombudsman's office listed facilities according to their features and policies. AIDS patients were not listed among types of patients that each targeted facility would take. The mother of one claimed to have called around to confirm that. She then filed her complaint. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) was required to investigate. Nursing homes complained about the OCR's onerous request for an unwarranted amount of information.
It was not true that the homes excluded AIDS victims. Nevertheless, as of late March, all nursing homes have signed, or are in the process of signing, voluntary consent agreements to avoid being sued. Those took the form of letters of understanding in which most nursing homes insisted that ...
- Nursing homes in Illinois `bar' AIDS patients
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Howard Wolinsky September 2, 1988 700+ words
AIDS patients essentially...from Illinois nursing homes because of financial...them. He said nursing homes in many cases won't accept AIDS patients because they...of caring for AIDS patients in nursing homes is $140 while...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times editorials May 11, 1989 700+ words
...000 mentally ill or disabled persons, now living in 600 nursing homes, who are not physically ill. The General Assembly is about...to stay where they are, as well as another 5,000 whose nursing homes would be reclassified with improved standards of care. Another...
- Nursing homes' hit on AIDS ban
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Howard Wolinsky December 14, 1986 700+ words
Illinois nursing homes are illegally...discriminating against AIDS patients by refusing...they'll sue nursing homes to force them to accept AIDS patients. But this isn...by the ban on AIDS patients in nursing homes because it bears...
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...to admission of AIDS patients to nursing homes. In one study of...provides 74 beds for AIDS patients. In addition, nursing homes fear that if AIDS...ways to increase AIDS patients' access to nursing homes. Until 1989, none...
- NYC hospitals see decline in AIDS patients. (New York City)
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business Benson, Barbara January 20, 1997 700+ words
...doctors began treating AIDS patients with a promising new...that had been filled by AIDS patients are emptying. Hospitals, nursing homes and hospices are losing...a high proportion of AIDS patients are reluctant to discuss...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) February 17, 1991 700+ words
...to secure beds in local nursing homes. The situation is complicated...publicized shortage of nursing homes beds. The last problem...aware of the difficulties AIDS patients face in finding beds in nursing homes, she said, and is attempting...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Molly Sinclair April 19, 1988 700+ words
...feature an entire wing for AIDS patients represents a break with...been all that common for nursing homes to have beds for AIDS patients," said Sheldon L. Goldberg...Goldberg said. "And in the nursing homes, you have another actor...
- D.C. Nursing Home for AIDS Patients Opens; Facility Will Care for Those Not...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael Abramowitz January 25, 1989 700+ words
...first medical facility for AIDS patients who are too sick to live...nursing assistance for AIDS patients. There are 10 homes in...constant supervision, because nursing homes generally won't accept AIDS patients. Jim Graham, administrator...