Category Archives: Medically Fragile Children
Reporter Follows Up with Law Professor after Federal Ruling
TV reporter Tony Pipitone interviews NSU Professor Matthew Dietz at the Shepard Broad College of Law. Investigative reporter Tony Pipitone has been following the story on lawsuits against the state that claimed it illegally kept children with complex medical needs in nursing homes. The state was first sued over this issue in 2012 by… Read More »
Institutionalization of Medically Complex Children
A.R. v. Dudek – the efforts to give children with disabilities the care they need. Florida has been home for approximately three thousand children with severe disabilities who require constant nursing care or supervision on a 24-hour per day basis to stay alive. These disabilities could be the result of a trauma, such as… Read More »