Re: “Lengthy-term care residents’ rights don’t match these of different tenants” [Dec. 19, Opinion]:
In my 30 months in three totally different Grownup Household Houses, I, as a multiply bodily disabled grownup, have survived two Medicaid evictions — getting evicted from a long-term care facility as a result of it discontinued its Medicaid contract in favor of personal pay shoppers solely — in lower than six months. I’ve discovered that advocating for my rights can shortly result in retaliation, escalating denial of care, employees falsifying documentation about my behaviors, damage and abuse.
Washington seniors and others in long-term care deserve the identical authorized rights granted to nursing residence residents, together with safety from unlawful evictions and the suitable to enchantment unlawful evictions. Home Invoice 1859 units these rights into regulation for weak adults in non-nursing residence long-term care services.
Evicting Washington long-term care residents on a whim shouldn’t be authorized, and our family members in long-term care services should be assured the suitable to enchantment unlawful discharges. HB 1859 ensures these protections.
Cross HB 1859 decisively and immediately. As a result of no weak grownup ought to need to develop surviving unlawful evictions as a superpower.
Maud Steyaert, Shoreline
