US Court Rulings Drive Move from Institutions
By Alice Dembner, Boston Globe, 8/21/2002
The state is closing Medfield State Hospital and moving many of its 96 residents, along with nearly 300 other people with mental and physical disabilities from nursing homes and institutions across the state, into group or private homes. The action comes largely in response to federal court rulings requiring that the disabled be treated in the least restrictive setting possible.
I just hope that somehow the court can be convinced that Terri is NOT in a PVS, and that she is disabled, instead!