The death of an extremely malnourished girl with cerebral palsy has led the Ohio Medicaid office to take action against the two agencies involved in her care. The coroner’s office, reporting on her death, said she was the worst case of child malnourishment it had ever seen. Ohio Medicaid is proposing the removal of Exclusive Home Care Services in Dayton from the Medicaid program and has decided to not extend the state contract with Cincinnati-based CareStar Inc., according to state Medicaid Director John McCarthy. “The death of Makayla Norman was a horrible tragedy, and the allegations in this case are extremely disturbing,” McCarthy said. The 14-year-old girl was dependent on others for her care. When she died, she weighed only 28 pounds and was covered with bedsores and caked in dirt, authorities said. The coroner’s office said she died of nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition. Authorities…
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January 18, 2012Skeleton Shows Birth Trauma Is Nothing New
January 16, 2012The oldest evidence of birth trauma in a human skeleton has been discovered by a researcher in Canada, confirming that the dangers of childbirth are nothing new to our species. Susan Pfeiffer, from the University of Toronto in Canada, has found an example of stress injury to the pelvis in the skeleton of a 2000-year-old female found in South Africa. According to newscientist.com, humans are unique among hominids in having a birth canal that is nearly identical in size to the neonatal head. This means that it is inevitable that natural variations will cause some women to have a pelvis that is too small for childbirth. The skeleton examined by Pfeiffer had an unusually narrow pelvis, which she said appears to have led to an injury to the pubic symphysis, a joint running down the midline of the pelvis, during childbirth. “Resulting deterioration of her joints probably caused a lot…
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Cerebral Palsy Cannot Keep Middle School Kid Off Team
January 12, 2012A Georgia middle school student showed that cerebral palsy could not hold him back after he tried out and made the school’s basketball team. Seventh grader Wil Sanders disease affects his muscle tone and hampers his motor skills, but that did not prevent him from trying out for the Evans Middle School basketball team. “When I tried out for the basketball team, I didn’t know what to expect,” said the 13-year-old. “When I made it, I was as shocked as anyone. I was like ‘What just happened?” Evans Middle basketball coach Garth Thomas chose to look past the young man’s physical limitations to his desire to compete, which was as strong as any other player. “When tryouts came, Wil Showed a lot of toughness, a lot of courage,” said Thomas. “I could just tell he needed to be a part of what we were doing.” Wil did not play much…
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