TACKLES TOUGH QUESTIONS
Working together, Carol Dunn and the Resource Center team enlisted Disability Rights Maine, state legislators and federal representatives and held weekly calls with hospital staff and the state’s Medicaid program.
Ultimately,
their advocacy got Chris Dunn into Shepherd Center in Atlanta — one of the
nation’s premier SCI rehab centers.
“What it came to down to, up in Maine, was a hospital administration that
looked at the injury level he had as not being any kind of quality of life.
So they
denied him care that would have given him quality of life,” says Resource
Center director Bill Fertig.
“Here is a
guy with a very, very significant disability.
But through
it all, he has almost universally maintained a strong perspective.
He has taken
all that came to him, and he’s happy.
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