the nurses work a shift in this house, maybe 20 hours a week. but we are able to manage people s care. we have people who are not in this home, but in others who are have tube feedings, things you might have considered in the past as 24 hour nursing, requiring nursing home placement, and that is just not the case. and therefore given the proper training they are able to support them here in the community. that is my proudest achievement. playing a small part in liberating people who have special needs for sure, but who have far more in common with the rest of us. now the big institutions are largely closed. while much work remains, america has done a magnificent job in creating a national system of community-based residences where folks once condemned to a brutal, short, sick life behind locked doors, instead can live and become productive members of society. but from the noble to the maybe not so cool, my tendency, folks, over the years to go
the nurses work a shift in this house, maybe 20 hours a week. but we are able to manage people s care. we have people who are not in this home, but in others who are have tube feedings, things you might have considered in the past as 24 hour nursing, requiring nursing home placement, and that is just not the case. and therefore given the proper training they are able to support them here in the community. that is my proudest achievement. playing a small part in liberating people who have special needs for sure, but who have far more in common with the rest of us. now the big institutions are largely closed. while much work remains, america has done a magnificent job in creating a national system of community-based residences where folks once condemned to a brutal, short, sick life behind locked doors, instead can live and become productive members of society. but from the noble to the maybe not so cool, my tendency, folks, over the years to go nose-to-nose with some really