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'Arkansas Health Care Association'

More Morton money evident in fight to limit lawsuits against nursing homes

The editorially right-wing Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported today on an amended filing by the Arkansas nursing home lobby on its $330,000 in contributions to the constitutional amendment campaign to discourage lawsuits against nursing homes and other medical providers.
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How to buy a constitutional amendment in Arkansas

Michael Morton is spending big on a proposed constitutional amendment that would help shield his nursing homes from lawsuits, even while fending off allegations that he bribed a circuit judge.
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Matt Campbell files ethics complaint against nursing home lobby

Matt Campbell, the Little Rock lawyer and author of the Blue Hog Reports blog, has filed an ethics complaint today against the Arkansas Health Care Association related to the nursing home lobby group's spending on a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at discouraging lawsuits against nursing homes and others for negligence and abuse.

A limit on elders' rights

Petition framed as way to cap attorneys' fees is bid by nursing homes to limit their liability.
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Nursing homes have raised more than $300,000 so far on lawsuit limitation amendment

The group formed to discourage medical malpractice and, particularly, negligence lawsuits against nursing homes have already raised more than $313,000 to gather signatures to put the amendment on the ballot in November.

Hutchinson: CFCO is issue for Healthcare Task Force, bill's time frame infeasible

It sounds like Gov. Asa Hutchinson will not be supporting the bill by Rep. Josh Miller (R-Heber Springs) to require the state to clear its eight year waiting list for developmental disabilities waivers.
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Family vs. institutional care in Arkansas

It's cheaper to provide care for the disabled and elderly in their own homes than in institutions. So why is the legislature blocking reform?

Legislative review of disabled-care reform will be delayed until next year

The Community First Choice Option, which would provide home/community-based care for thousands of families with developmentally disabled children, has become a legislative lightning rod. The head of the Department of Human Services told the Public Health committee today that his department will wait until 2015 to request approval for the CFCO. Some advocates think that lessens its chances of passing considerably.
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Parents of disabled children to sue state over eight-year waiting list for home care waivers

Frustrated with the legislature's apparent reluctance to move forward with the Community First Choice Option (CFCO), a group of some 50 parents are filing a lawsuit against the state that alleges Arkansas's failure to provide home- and community-based care options for developmentally disabled children is in violation of the US Supreme Court's landmark Olmstead decision.
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