Home care agencies in Michigan lobby to scrap 55% cap on care for car accident patients
Home care agencies in Michigan lobby to scrap 55% cap on care for car accident patients
Chad Livengood
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The only thing separating Kelley Miller from living in a nursing home is a registered nurse and aide caring for her around-the-clock inside the 54-year-old quadriplegic woman s home in the mid-Michigan village of Mulliken.
Paralyzed from the neck down in a 2011 car accident, Miller relies on a ventilator to help her breathe and the caregivers to bathe, clothe and move her between chairs.
Sometimes the ventilator tubing comes unhooked when Miller s caregivers transfer her between a chair, her bed or the shower.
April 25, 2021 12:12 AM We ll be out of business : Home care agencies lobbying to scrap 55% cap on care for injured drivers
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Michele Bice (right), a registered nurse with 1st Call Home Health Care in Clinton Township, checks the pulse of Kelley Miller, a 54-year-old Eaton County woman who was paralyzed from the neck down in a 2011 auto accident.
The only thing separating Kelley Miller from living in a nursing home is a registered nurse and aide caring for her around-the-clock inside the 54-year-old quadriplegic woman s home in the mid-Michigan village of Mulliken.
Paralyzed from the neck down in a 2011 car accident, Miller relies on a ventilator to help her breathe and the caregivers to bathe, clothe and move her between chairs.