Patient treatment plans contained “recycled language and generic information” despite differences in background, diagnoses and behavioral goals. Activities that were supposed to prepare patients to live independently instead involved little interaction, with some patients sitting by themselves or wandering. And plans to help patients transition back into the community or residential facilities were often incomplete.
Nonprofits and psychiatric units employ more, and better paid, frontline workers and nurses, while for-profits thrive on a straightforward business strategy: bring in ever more patients and spend far less on their care.
June 9, 2019. Ali Stroker wins Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. An actor, singer, and wheelchair user, Ali Stroker has been a trailblazer for disability representation on the stage. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department at New York University. In 2015, she was the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadway, starring as Anna in the musical, Spring Awakening. For her performance as Ado Annie Carnes in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award in 2019.
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