Governor Matt Blunt is calling for sprinklers to be installed in all group homes in the wake of the Nov. 27 fire at the Anderson Guest House that resulted in 11 deaths:
The governor is directing the Department of Health and Senior services to develop a timeline to implement the new sprinkler regulations to allow care facilities time to meet the requirement.
"The tragedy at Anderson is a tragic reminder that we must do everything possible to help protect Missourians who cannot always protect themselves," Blunt said in a statement.
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So Blunt simultaneously proposes to put sprinklers in homes and pay $20 million for the 11 lives lost while quietly making plans to close mental health facilities on the side. Descriptions of this might include…
Give with one hand, take with the other…
Shell game…
Hypocrite…
The Governor wants to close psychiatric hospitals in St Louis and privatize care for the mentally ill. Look what the Jasper County area got. And if there is anything worse than state hospital caseworkers, it's contract agency casemanagement like the Joplin Ozark Center.
There must be monumental changes in what DMH considers acceptable community living before those hospitals close.
The Boy Gov and friend's greed insure that there is no state-funded, safe and clean place for the disabled and handicapped to go. They have no choice but to end up in these facilities that operate on a shoestring and cut every corner possible. That's "compassionate conservatism." If that idiot Bush hadn't reneged on his campaign promise to cut CO2 green house gas emissions, we could have at least followed Inuit tradition and put them on an ice flow, but now they're all melting.
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