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A federal lawsuit asserts that Florida's reliance on institutions for medically fragile kids is an affront to laws requiring that people with disabilities be served in home-like settings when possible.
At the Plantation Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Northwest Fifth Street, frail men and women with wheelchairs, walkers, and hearing aids live out their last years in an institutional setting. Nearby, but in a world of their own, medically fragile youngsters at the start of life’s journey spend day after day, year after year, confined to cribs.
A year after reforming a program for children who suffered devastating brain injuries at birth, Florida lawmakers voted to extend help to families whose children died.
The chairman of Florida’s NICA board gave parents of children born with brain injuries the message some of them waited decades to hear: “You have been heard.”
The Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (NICA) has been under fire for failing to properly compensate families.