The State of NC and 45 other states do not require registered nurses (RN's) to be employed and physically present everyday in Assisted Living/Memory Care facilities. State law governs these facilities and is seriously lacking. The residents in the memory care units have dementia/alzheimers which is an "illness" of the brain, but their illness is not afforded the necessary higher level of care provided by RN's that skilled nursing facilities are given. In many assisted living/memory care facilities, the highest level of medical training is a "med-tech," which requires only five months of training with a high school education. These "med-techs" dispense medications including NARCOTICS. The daily running of the memory care unit is often overseen by a med-tech without oversight of an RN or a doctor. The residents are primarily elderly with numerous health problems including heart and kidney illness, hypertension, diabetes, etc. in addition to memory impairment. They often cannot tell you what is wrong. They need and deserve the highly trained eye of an RN. I witnessed daily calls for paramedics to take residents who had fallen to the ER: diagnosis - dehydration. That's often preventable with the oversight of an RN. And the cost to Medicare - staggering. Charges for ambulance trips to and from ER and facility, use of ER, expensive diagnostic tests, physician diagnosis, sometimes sutures or surgery to repair broken bones, and rehabilitation, in addition to pain and suffering, confusion and fear of these helpless people. Skilled nursing facilities, on the other hand, are governed by the state and the federal government which mandates registered nurses in every skilled nursing facility on a daily basis. The residents in skilled nursing have illnesses too but their illnesses are given a higher priority than our loved ones with numerous illnesses and memory impairment. This is an injustice to these innocent human beings who have no voice. Please sign our petition.

Agent Orange was used in Viet Nam and veterans were compensated for being exposed to it. Same with Panama but the VA refuses to compensate ALL who were exposed in Panama. This is a petition to demand the VA take on the Panama Exposure cases and duly compensate those who were exposed.

My son overdosed and was given Narcan. He was released from the hospital after being held 3 hours. Then just 23 minutes later was hit and killed by a train..

He (William “RED” Lowe) went five times to the Hospital before his wife called an ambulance to pick him up just to get admitted. Once they admitted him, and ran a few tests. The cancer had metastasized to his lungs and brain. This shouldn’t happen after we have Obama Care. This is a classical case of evil from Medical Center Navicent Health Care. I am sounding off on this miserable, melancholy, and murky Hospital, and Dr. Ninfa M Saunders, President and CEO. I am calling her out personally since she wanted to boast in The Macon Telegraph about how she has changed this Hospital. YES, with additional deaths to victims who do not have health insurance. This community were just fine without your arrogate, incongruous, and evil death penalty ways. We were a sufficient, and self-contained community without, “YOU” shaking things up. The blood of William “Red” Lowe, is on your hand. This is a direct result of your leadership, and your claims of shaking things up at the Medical Center Of Central Georgia. We do need you, nor want you. Get out of Macon, Georgia with your name changed, and your killings, unapologetic, unashamed, and unabashed ways. Yes this is Rev. Ronnie A. Jackson Sr. (478) 262-4858. This fight is on; she has won round one, and she will receive certified correspondences from me, by Monday in round two.

As a clinician who has been in practice for 30 years, I can not help my college age children and have not succeeded in building the kind of retirement I need to have to not be a burden on the state at a later date. This is not because of any personal recklessness or bad investment, but because of the fixed market rates of the Insurance and Managed Care industry. In fact, my copay is so high that I cannot afford my own therapist! In my practice, I have fewer resources to spend off-session time and energy to help those who need it.

Recently the Secretary of the VA has deemed that the VA has no authority to authorize long term residential care for veterans with brain injuries. This determination will displace vets all over the US! They will be placed in skilled nursing care facilities and nursing homes that are not capable of caring for this population. The alternative to placement will be to place the burden on their families to either pay for private care or bring them home and attempt to care for their loved one. We need to change or amend the regulations to include long term residential care for these vets. I know for my family and loved one the loss of care would prove devastating! At 35 years of age my husband was serving overseas when he was brain injured. Over the last 10 years I have raised our three children on a small pension. I do not have the funds to pay for private care even if I wanted to. I have also fought and advocated for his care and placement. He has been in a group home now for 5 years that specializes in brain injury and has finally achieved a quality of life he deserves. The facilities that he would be forced to live in have already been tried over the last decade resulting in neglect & abuse. He has been the victim of being drugged, beaten and neglected to the point of nearly having to have amputation. He spent his days locked on one floor and walking circles because he is a high risk for elopement. When he first came home with his brain injury I had attempted to care for him for 6 months nearly ending up in the hospital myself from exhaustion and nervous breakdown. Please sign this petition and contact your representatives to support long term residential care for veterans with all brain injuries. THANK YOU!

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is bad for the economy, the environment and peoples health, but no group suffers more than the blind and visually impaired. This outdated practice neglects the visual impairment DST inflicts on everyone especially the visually impaired. Sign the petition to get visual relief from the darkness of Daylight Saving Time.

I'm starting this petition to increase funding for mental health services and to increase awareness for the mentally ill who usually can't speak for themselves. I myself have a serious mental illness and I am an advocate for others who share my struggles. I cannot do this alone though so this petition is a way that I can get other people in my corner.

I have Avascular Necrosis secondary to Sickle Cell Anemia. Sickle Cell Anemia is an awful, life-threatening disease which causes frequent, painful, hemolytic crises. Sickle Cell Anemia will eventually cost me my physical life. AVN, in the meantime, is robbing me of everything else. Mutual sufferers of AVN around the country and the world need this disease to be understood. We need to be heard and validated. We need a cure. When? Now!!!

Family caregivers make the ultimate sacrifice in caring for loved ones. After years of caregiving, should they be thrown out in the street? Especially, older family caregivers approaching retirement or in retirement? Does it make sense to put caregivers in a Section 8 housing program, or to allow them to stay in the family home? Caregivers save the government billions of dollars a year in Medicaid costs. Do they deserve the punishment that Medicaid offers? This doesn't happen in Canada or other parts of the industrialized world. It only happens here, in America. It's time to stop this horrible Medicaid practice.

My mother has dementia, and the current laws are not protecting her civil right to Due Process. Judge Daneeka Cotton in the State of Maryland appointed a Guardian of Property and a Guardian of Person without allowing her the opportunity to testify on her own behalf. The Guardian of Property is now trying to sell all of her personal property, and the Guardian of Person, Prince Georges County Department of Aging, has confined her to a nursing home like a prisoner. My mother is not even afforded the opportunity to receive her mail.

The DONUT Hole has cost those on PLAN D with medicare (which is their PRESCRIPTION COVERAGE ) MILLIONS --- each that is in the donut hole can BE CAUSED to spend their retirement ...they often split pills or shorten dosages to TRY and make it to the end of the year as I have had to do . Over the past it has cost me over 1,500 dollars . It ends up in the wallets of WALL STREET !