Category: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disability (ICF/IID)
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Betrayal 5 – Lucas Lodge LLC
Photo: Lucas Lodge Residential 4-Person Group Home by James C. Sherlock This is a real-life horror story. One hundred and two serious incidents with injuries reported since 2019 by a single provider of community-based residential services whose tiny houses host a maximum of 24 intellectually and developmentally disabled adults at a time. Not counting…
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Betrayal 4 – Portsmouth
by James C. Sherlock DD/ID (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities) refers to services, supports, and classifications for individuals with cognitive, physical, or emotional impairments. The author’s first three articles on this subject provided background on Virginia’s broken system of services to that population. In many instances, it doesn’t work well due to combinations of oversight failures…
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Betrayal 3 – Out-of-Control Programs
by James C. Sherlock Medicaid and Medicare are established under the Social Security Act. They creates federal and state organizations to set rules, monitor compliance, provide funding, sanction, and ultimately exclude those who misuse funds or fail to follow the rules. Federal and state governments have proven better at spending than at oversight. Virginia’s…