From the NY Post:The city’s population of mentally deranged street people may explode because of new regulations signed by Gov. Cuomo last week that forbid privately run adult homes from accepting new residents, advocates warned.
“Hospitals can’t discharge to us,” said Jeffrey Edelman, who runs adult homes in Queens and The Bronx. “Within a week, the hospitals will be starting to get backed up, and they are going to have big problems.”
The change is part of the state’s efforts to comply with a federal court ruling that found institutionalizing the mentally ill in adult homes wrongly segregates them.
An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 mentally ill people, the majority in New York City, could be affected.
“My residents need reminders several times a day to take their medications and see their doctors,” Edelman said. “My residents used to be in homeless shelters and went from hospital to hospital.”
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The change is part of the state’s efforts to comply with a federal court ruling that found institutionalizing the mentally ill in adult homes wrongly segregates them.
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They are right. they shouldn't be put in homes. Instead, they should be put down. They offer no value to society. why should they be kept around?
We need to use Obamacare to psychiatrically regulate the teachers and preachers that produce such creatures.
Anonymous #1, I have a four-letter word for people who think like you:
N-A-Z-I.
one wonders who or which organization filed a suit with the federal court ,to arrive at this stupid decision?
name the federal judge and who appointed it also.
Fed. Judge Garaufis (Bayside resident) wants NO supervisory staff at mentally ill adult homes ????????
what happens when the meds are not taken ? lets go to the subway and push someone.
Anon 1 — can he possibly be such a scumbag or is he just looking to get a rise and a nice chain of comments going? We'll never know.
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