Changing Spaces - Texas

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Before a few dozen families, all caring for at least one child with immense medical needs, lawmakers said what the parents had been hoping to hear for more than two years.

“We hear you. We're rolling up our sleeves," said Plano Rep. Jeff Leach, a far-right Republican and notable addition to the strange political bedfellows working to fix problems with the state's privatized Medicaid system known as managed care.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2019/02/26/hear-lawmakers-promiseto-fix-texas-broken-medicaid-managed-care-system

Kudos!! Change is taking place!!

EXCITING NEWS:
NEW UNIVERSAL CHANGING PLACE AT COOKS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL in FORT WORTH, TEXAS!
We want to give a SHOUT OUT to Cindy and her son, Clayton for making it a REALITY!
Way to GO! So proud of my HOME STATE!

Universal Changing Places

Let's Make 2019, the year of CHANGE! No one should EVER have to be lain on a Public Restroom Floor!

Protect TX Fragile Kids

CHILDREN BELONG AT HOME
Although this is the story of one child in Florida, make no mistake: this is also happening in Texas. Disability Rights Texas is currently moving forward with a lawsuit to address the thousands of young people currently residing in nursing homes who are unable to obtain the assistance necessary to live in the community.

"How nursing homes became the residence of choice for severely challenged children is at the core of the Justice Department’s battle with the state. Florida, the DOJ said in a letter, “has planned, structured and administered a system of care that has led to the unnecessary separation and isolation of hundreds of children in nursing facilities.”

Agency administrators have “systematically” cut services for parents, making it almost impossible for them to care for their sick children at home, the letter says. At the same time, they’ve agreed to pay nursing homes a more generous rate for children than for elders, creating an additional incentive."

“Nursing homes are not a place for children,” said Dr. Gwen Wurm, who teaches clinical pediatrics at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. We should be doing all we can to keep children in a family setting,” added Wurm.

“State policies and practices have favored institutional care at the expense of community-based services,” the letter said.

Some children, the Justice Department said, “have been in a facility for a decade or longer, including some who entered a facility as toddlers.”

Lawmakers Look To Improve Care For Kids With Complex Conditions

disabilityscoop.com About 500,000 kids — including many with developmental disabilities — are considered to be medically complex. Proposed legislation aims to make it easier to coordinate their care.

Pain & Profit: Texas health agency beefs up oversight of Medicaid companies as House inquiry begins

AUSTIN – The state agency charged with providing health care to millions of vulnerable Texans will hire about a 100 new regulators, including nurses to check on patients in their homes, after The Dallas Morning News investigation exposed how private companies make billions while they deny or delay crucial services and medical equipment.

Those new jobs, along with more than $7 million a year to increase oversight of companies, come as top health officials prepare for a legislative investigation, which begins Wednesday.

That joint-committee investigation is led by Rep. Sarah Davis, the Houston-area Republican who chairs the General Investigating and Ethics Committee and the subcommittee that guards the purse strings for the sprawling health and human services Texas Health and Human Services Commission. That agency pays private companies about $22 billion a year to giant companies and a few small non-profits under what's called "Medicaid managed care."

dallasnews.com AUSTIN – The state agency charged with providing health care to millions of vulnerable Texans will hire about a 100 new regulators, including...

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So true - my eldest was 6-7 before we sort of had potty training down. Can't tell you how many times in his 14 years of life he's laid down on a bathroom floor or had to be changed in the back of a car.
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People outgrow baby changing facilities

That is why we need Changing Places

This is why we campaign