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		<title>Georgia settles ADA suit over confinement of people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/19/georgia-ada-settlement-30335/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AP/New York Times: In a decision that is being hailed as a historic step toward enforcing the rights of people with disabilities, the state of Georgia has reached an agreement with the Justice Department to move many people with mental illness or developmental disabilities out of state psychiatric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Program hones job skills for grads with developmental disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/05/project-search-2-26304/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Golisano Children's Hospital]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University of Rochester Medical Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Project SEARCH offers hope amid massive unemployment From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Project SEARCH, a national job training program for young adults with developmental disabilities, is helping a dozen young adults polish their skills at Golisano Children&#8217;s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The goal is to help the recent high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability protesters arrested in Atlanta</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/14/disability-protesters-arrested-24067/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A handful of protesters were arrested in the courtyard of the Sam Nunn Federal Center in Atlanta Tuesday during a demonstration calling for better long-term care options for people with disabilities. Representatives of the Office of Homeland Security refused to disclose how many had been arrested and whether they were being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability advocates rally at Georgia capitol</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/12/adapt-atlanta-23909/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Some 200 disability advocates rallied at the Georgia state capitol Monday, dispersing only after securing a meeting with Gov. Sonny Perdue&#8217;s chief of staff. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday. The protesters are seeking state compliance with the Supreme Court&#8217;s 1999 Olmstead decision, which directed states to provide community-based supports for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston hospitals agree to improve accessibility</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/27/leading-boston-hospitals-19190/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brigham and Women's Hospital]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jean McGuire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Boston Globe: In the face of complaints about inadequate equipment and ill-prepared medical workers, two of the nation&#8217;s leading hospitals have agreed to spend millions of dollars to improve accessibility for patients with disabilities. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hopital, both affiliated with Harvard University, voluntarily agreed to remove barriers, improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple faces end of battle over death of baby with Trisomy 13</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/22/baby-annie-18923/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario Superior Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Toronto, Canada] National Post: Barbara Farlow and her husband Timothy are facing what is expected to be the end of their legal challenge to Toronto&#8217;s Hospital for Sick Children over the 2005 death of their daughter Annie, who had Trisomy 13. If a judge rules today that the case cannot be heard in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents: Ontario hospital withheld treatment from disabled girl</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/15/withheld-treatment-14445/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Toronto [Ontario] Star, Global News Canada: The parents of Annie Farlow, an infant who died at an Toronto hospital in 2005, are pressing a claim before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal alleging that their daughter received inadequate care because the hospital withholds life-saving treatment from infants with disabilities. Barbara and Tim Farlow say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocates challenge Georgia mental health settlement</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/06/georgia-mental-health-2-13769/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Judd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carter Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles A. Parnell Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia mental health advocates are challenging the settlement of a federal civil rights investigation of Georgia&#8217;s state psychiatric hospitals, although some fear their objections could allow the state to withdraw its plan to overhaul the facilities. Among the charges: the settlement allows too much state self regulation and gives the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents sue hospital for keeping daughter on life support</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/16/wrongful-life-12033/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/16/wrongful-life-12033/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Canadian] National Post, CBC, CTV.ca: A Quebec couple is suing Montreal Children&#8217;s Hospital for $3.5 million for putting their daughter back on life support without their permission. &#8220;The ethics committee attempted to impose their morality on the couple, something they had no right to do,&#8221; said Jean-Pierre Menard, the couple&#8217;s lawyer. Menard said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William I. Cohen: Compassionate MD started DS Center</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/10/obit-down-syndrome-9293/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/10/obit-down-syndrome-9293/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from the obituary by Gary Rotstein in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Dr. William I. Cohen spent 19 years heading the Down Syndrome Center of Children&#8217;s Hospital of Pittsburgh, creating a loving, family-centered environment where parents with developmentally disabled children found unexpected reassurance. He had titles as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and professor of pediatrics and [...]]]></description>
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