Re: “Long-term care residents’ rights don’t match those of other tenants” [Dec. 19, Opinion]:
In my 30 months in three totally different Grownup Household Properties, 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 purchasers solely — in lower than six months. I’ve realized that advocating for my rights can shortly result in retaliation, escalating denial of care, workers falsifying documentation about my behaviors, harm and abuse.
Washington seniors and others in long-term care deserve the identical authorized rights granted to nursing dwelling residents, together with safety from unlawful evictions and the proper to enchantment unlawful evictions. Home Invoice 1859 units these rights into regulation for susceptible adults in non-nursing dwelling 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 proper to enchantment unlawful discharges. HB 1859 ensures these protections.
Move HB 1859 decisively and directly. As a result of no susceptible grownup ought to must develop surviving unlawful evictions as a superpower.
Maud Steyaert, Shoreline
