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[TITLE] The Battle of Opryland!
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The Tennessean, Tuesday September 28, 1993 Local News [Title] Health-care plan too little, groups agree By-TAMMIE SMITH, Staff Writer Two health-care groups at odds over home-based care agree on one thing: President Clinton's plan for health-care reform doesn't go far enough in addressing long-term care needs. The 239-page draft copy of Clinton’s plan devotes 15 pages to long-term care, principally calling for creation of a new long-term care program under the Social Security Act. The new program would concentrate on: - Expanding home- and community-based services. - Improving Medicaid coverage for institutional care. - Improving the quality and reliability of private long-term care insurance and creating tax incentives to encourage people to buy it. - Creating tax incentives that help individuals with disabilities to work. - Piloting a study intended to pave the way toward greater integrjation of acute and long-term care. The American Health Care Association, an organization representing 11,000 nursing homes, thinks the plan is a first step but falls short of comprehensive reform. The association, which has drawn 4,000 people to its annual convention this week at Opryland Hotel, maintains Medicaid has been “masquerading as a long-term care system for far too long." Under the President’s plan, Medicaid would still be the main resource for taking care of the poor, but people would be encouraged to take out private insurance to pay for long-term care should they need it. Clinton’s proposals don't go far enough, said association representatives and members of ADAPT, a group representing disabled people, which has its own beef with the American Health Care Association. “He hasn’t really tackled the whole issue," said Linda Keegan, spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association. “He has taken two small areas — home health services and long-term insurance — and builds in proposals to deal with those issues. He doesn’t address respite care, adult day care, nursing home care, residential care, hospice care or subacute care." The association maintains a comprehensive plan would incorporate all these types of care. ADAPT, which is short for American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, agrees with the health care association that Clinton's plan fall shorts.
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Man in a wheelchair [Frank McNeal], in pink shirt on left, looks at the camera while blocking the entryway to Opryland Hotel. Two security guards behind him try and keep a man on the floor [Erik von Schmetterling] from getting inside. One looks at the camera. To the right of Erik a woman in a wheelchair [Barbara Bounds] wearing sunglasses and a sign that reads "Dismantle AHCA" blocks another door shut. Behind her a woman in a power chair [Robin McGee] is tilted back and wears a sign that reads "people not profits." Someone else in a wheelchair is behind Robin so everyone is jammed in.
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THE TENNESSEAN, Friday September 17, 1993 [Headline] Activists vow to disrupt Opryland care convention By BRAD SCHMITT, staff writer "If we're blocked out...we'll respond in kind." --Diane Coleman ADAPT coordinator A group of about 300 disabled home health care activists has warned that its members might disrupt a nursing home operators convention at Opryland starting next weekend, one of the giant hotel's busiest times. Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, called ADAPT, likely will try to block Opryland Hotel doors it members are stopped from going into the American Health Care Association convention inside, said Diane Coleman, ADAPT's Tennessee coordinator. “lf we're blocked out we'll respond in kind," Coleman said yesterday. Opryland officials said the timing couldn‘t be worse as the convention, slated for Sept. 25-28, comes at the beginning of Country Music Association week, an annual industry event culminating in a nationally broadcast awards show. But the conflict appears unavoidable. ADAPT wants to address conventioneers to ask them lo join in ADAPT's efforts to get 25% of all Medicaid dollars for nursing homes diverted to home health care. But Claudia Askew, spokeswoman for American Health Care Association, said, "The convention program is pretty well set." The groups have had run-ins for years, with ADAPT protests leading to arrests at the past two annual conventions of the nursing home operators. In September 1991, ADAPT members blocked doors at the Opryland Hotel during a Tennessee Health Care Association convention. This year, protesters also plan to link their wheelchairs with chains, Coleman said. But this year, Metro police will be waiting inside and outside the hotel. The police intelligence unit will have a suite inside the hotel with surveillance camera monitors, computers, photocopiers, fax machines, phones and radio equipment, Maj. John Manning said. Detectives have developed computer intelligence files, including photographs, about some of the protesters expected to show up, information that can quickly be disseminated to hotel security and patrol officers, Manning said. Police also began a sensitivity program yesterday that teaches officers how to physically arrest disabled people. "Because of the possibility of inadvertent injury to disabled persons, supervisors will ensure that specialized training is completed by all officers involved," the department's mission statement for the convention says. Coleman applauded the concern, adding that the safest thing officers can do is ask the protesters what is the best way for an officer to move them.
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[Title] 97 arrested at hotel Photos by Nina Alexandrenko, staff: Four police officers, two in uniform and two plain clothes, carry a man (Frank Lozano) by his arms and legs, away from a large columned building (Opryland hotel). All you see is Frank's head and shoulders because he is in a lying position. [Caption reads:] Metro police Officers Don Adcox and Terry Maracle carry ADAPT demonstrator Frank Lozano of Las Cruces, N.M.. from the Opryland Hotel. [Second photo] Two people in wheelchairs sit facing away in aisles leading to doors. They are touching hands through a barrier, and in front of Cathy is what looks like chains. [Caption reads] Protesters Cathy Bruce, left, and Doug Chastain shake hands after stopping Opryland Hotel security officers and Metro police from moving them away from the hotel entrance. Second title: Rights group for disabled leads protest By TIMOTHY CORNELL and TINI TRAN, Staff Writers A police helicopter buzzed over the Opryland Hotel, roads to it were closed and more than 130 officers surrounded hundreds of shouting, spitting, chanting demonstrators yesterday calling attention to the need for in-home health care for the disabled. Ninety-seven demonstrators, many in wheelchairs and all members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, ADAPT, were arrested for criminal trespass alter they stormed the hotel in frustration when a scheduled meeting with American Health Care Association officials fell through. The association is holding its 44th annual convention, involving about 4,000 participants, at the hotel. Protesters rushed the hotel's front entrance while a team of off-duty Metro police officers frantically tried to chain the doors. About 14 angry demonstrators in wheelchairs made it inside, struggling with police and cursing at guests. Some jumped out of their chairs and tried to slide on the ground to get inside the doors. One protester, who was not in a wheelchair, jumped on detective Stan Marlar's back as he tried to chain the doors. Marlar quickly removed the man, said Capt. Henry Rogers, who directed off-duty officers inside the hotel. The protester then ran away and was not caught, Rogers said. AHCA officials had originally agreed to meet with the protesters at the Ramada Inn across from the Opryland Hotel yesterday afternoon, but they backed off, after encountering demonstrators in the Ramadas parking lot. "It probably would have gotten into a chanting, shouting thing in the parking lot," said Claudia Askew, spokeswoman for AHCA. "I think they came here to protest." When they heard they were not going to meet, the protesters moved to the Opryland Hotel. Demonstrators were trying to reach the AHCA's convention area inside the hotel, but none did, police said. Instead, they were systematically arrested, booked, and hauled off in buses equipped to handle wheelchairs by police and Opryland security guards. One demonstrator, Quinten Williams of Detroit, was taken to a hospital after a scuffle with police. The arrested protesters were taken to a Corrections Corporation of America building off Harding Place, which was set up as a makeshift night court. Bond was set at $1,000-$1,500. Demonstrators said before the attests they intended to make bail and be released. An additional 150 protesters gathered at the hotel's driveway entrance, blocking traffic into the area. Several demonstrators threatened a similar protest at tonight's Country Music Association Awards at the Opry House. "It shouldn't be comfortable for any hotel to have" AHCA people, said Michael Auberger, co-founder of ADAPT. "Business can't go on as usual. We're saying we won't let this continue without disruption. With the CMA tomorrow, its certainly the way to put the message out to them." Metro police and Opryland security said they would keep officers on the grounds to prevent protests from happening again. Opryland officials also obtained a temporary restraining order against the group last night. Opryland spokesman Tom Adkisson said he felt both the hotel's and the city's reputation were damaged by the protests: "Nashville doesn't deserve a black eye for this incident. We offered them options, and they didn't avail themselves of It. This whole situation Is regrettable, uncomfort- [type is cut off in this scanned image]" [text continues] now go to nursing homes to be reallocated for in-home healthcare needs. AHCA agrees with the concept of more in-home care, but doesn't want to take Medicaid funds from nursing-home patients to do it. "It's just a few simple things we're asking for. It's disgusting," said ADAPT members Irene Norwood of Chicago. The demonstrators had come from across the country to protest at the AHCA convention. Many of them have experience from other demonstrations. "We know that getting arrested is a possibility. Every who [text is cut off in this scanned image] was canceled. When the protest ended, 97 ADAPT members had been arrested. The protest exploded after AHCA rescheduled a 3 p.m. meeting with ADAPT representatives to 3:45 p.m. and moved it from the Opryland Hotel across the road to the Music Valley Ramada Inn. Then the health care association's president and vice president were substituted for the executive committee and ADAPT was forbidden to bring the 50 members it wanted--one from each state. The group instead was limited to six representatives. "This is us bending over backwards to accommodate you," Auberger told AHCA spokeswoman Claudia Askew. "If the issue was important to you, you'd get the executive committee over here and meet with us in the parking lot. "You lied to us," he said, adding there would be no meeting so long as AHCA remained inflexible. Askew countered that the disabled-rights activists really just wanted to protest and that her group wanted the meeting. And, she added, there were no lies. "It, unfortunately, may have appeared that way," she said, "but we didn't lie to them." But ADAPT believed they did. Group members waited in the Ramada Inn parking lot until 4 p.m., hoping Askew would get the AHCA's executive committee to meet with them. She didn't. "It doesn't look like there's go- ing to be a meeting here," Auberger said. "If there's no meeting here, we're going to go make a meeting." And at 4 p.m., the wheelchairs rolled, spilling out onto Music Valley Drive and crossing McGavock Pike at the entrance to the Opryland Hotel. Opryland security personnel waited in the driveway, determined to stop any wayward protesters from entering the property. The mass of protesters, most rolling, some walking, split at hotel driveway, some going left, some going right, lining up in what appeared to be the beginning of a peaceful, lawful protest. But then a huge group rushed from the center and charged the Opryland Hotel. [Subheading] Protester hurt Quentin Williams, 38, of Detroit was at the front of the group. His effort was stopped when an unidentified Opryland security guard from the hotel, tossed him from his wheelchair, causing his head to hit the pavement. Williams lay on the pavement, blood pouring from the side of his head, while Opryland security guards chased other protesters. Bystanders helped Williams back into his chair, and he was transported to Memorial Hospital to be treated for lacerations to the head. Despite guards' efforts, almost 100 protesters reached the front of the building. Security staff managed to close the doors — one was broken down in the process — and keep most of the protesters outside. Chains went up, doors were locked, and huge buses were parked at the entrance to the hotel, essentially barricading the place. "We wouldn't be here if they weren't here," Auberger said, referring to AHCA. At the front door, protesters chanted and refused to leave. "We didn't come here to beat up on Nashville. But we're not going to let them do business as usual. Their convention is not going to be fun," Auberger said. Metro police, after complaints from the hotel, took over. Each protester was asked to leave and, if the protester refused, was arrested. Police used techniques learned in the classroom last week to subdue the protesters without a single injury, said Don Aaron, Metro police spokesman. No police officers were injured, either. Those arrested were loaded onto buses and taken to the Metro Detention Facility at DeBerry, where they were booked. All were charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing. Banner Staff Writer Steve Cavendish contributed to this report. [Subheading] Few pleased with security For all of Opryland's efforts to keep protesters away from its guests weren't too pleased. "I expect to see tanks and armored cars out there next," said Frank Linden, a nursing home director from York, Pa. "They're coming out here with helicopters and paddy wagons, and, find for what?" he asked. "Where are they going to go? Don't they have a right to say what they want to say?" Linda Lippiatt, another nursing home association member from York, said the protesters had some valid points to make and that more people should be cared for at home. But the protesters' complaint should not be with the association, she said: "It's all part of a lousy health-care system. It's a problem, and not just for them." Another guest, Jim Hawkins, from Dayton, Ohio, said he had wanted to go outside to hear what the protesters had to say, but was blocked by Opryland security guards: "They won't even let us hear them. This is just outrageous." --TIMOTHY CORNELL
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3 B Tuesday, September 28, 1993 —— THE TENNESSEAN PHOTO by Rick Musacchio, Staff: Two police officers stand over three protesters in wheelchairs, two of whom are holding hands. [Caption reads] Tennessee Trooper Amos Claybrooks, left, and Capt. Paul Tackett try to keep protesters from entering a door to the governor’s office. [Title] Disabled demand to see governor By REAGAN WALKER, Staff Writer About 300 members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, lined the first floor of the state Capitol yesterday demanding to talk with Gov. Ned McWherter. The national organization is in town to bring attention to the lack of Medicaid funding for home health care. The group follows the American Health Care Association, the nation's largest lobbying group for nursing homes, to its annual convention each year to protest a system that group members say unfairly dumps disabled and elderly people into nursing homes. The healthcare association is meeting this week at Opryland Hotel, and its executive board will meet with members of ADAPT today. Last week ADAPT asked to meet with McWherter this week. But he was already scheduled to be in Germany, where he met with officials of Mahle GmbH yesterday regarding plans for an expansion of its Morristown plant. Mahle Inc. is the U.S. arm of Mahle GmbH, one of the world's major suppliers of pistons. Even knowing the governor was out of the country, the group began crowding into the first floor hallway of the Capitol shortly after noon yesterday demanding Mcwherter talk with them by phone about their concerns. McWherter did not call, but his staff set up a meeting with the group for Oct. 11. Diane Coleman, a member of the Tennessee chapter of ADAPT, declared the protest successful about 5 p.m. “We call upon Governor McWherter to put human rights before state rights, to put people ahead of profits," Coleman said. The group said McWherter's health-care plan, TennCare, does not address long-term care. The state also does not pick up the Medicaid option to provide some money for those people choosing home health care. Because Tennessee doesn't provide that Medicaid option, LaTonya Reeves, 29, said she moved from Memphis to Denver. Colorado provides Medicaid coverage for home health care. “My choice was to either move or go into a nursing home," Reeves said.
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Nashville Banner, Monday September 27, 1993 Local & State Tennessee B-2 [This article appears in photos ADAPT 812 and ADAPT 808 but the entire text is included here for easier reading.] Photo by Larry McCormick: A man (Bob Kafka) in an ADAPT T-shirt and a denim hat, with curly grey and dark hair and beard looks to the sky as he speaks. Across from him a bald heavy set policeman looks to the ground and leans on the door of his cruiser. Behind them you can see another policeman and protester. Caption reads: Bob Kafka (lefl), an ADAPT leader, negotiates for more time with police Lt. Don Heath, who was almost out of patience. 2nd Photo by Larry McCormick: A seven lane road almost devoid of cars is seen from the sky. Toward the front of the photo, two lines of people cross the entire width of the road, blocking all the lanes. Caption reads: The ADAPT protest forced police to block off traffic on McGavock Pike. [Title] Protest strands tourists; Disabled rights activists demand more funding By Rob Moritz, Banner Staff Writer When a group of disabled activists picketed the entrance to the Opryland Hotel, innocent bystanders — tourists — felt the pinch. “We just wanted to do some shopping and got stuck in the traffic," said Greg Day of Indiana, standing with his wife and son in a parking lot across from the hotel's entrance. "We had to drive all the way around to get here. It's very inconvenient," he said. “All the roads are blocked, and we can't get out and see what we came to Nashville to see,“ Guy Eskew of Toronto said. About 300 members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today blocked the intersection at the entrance to the Opryland Hotel for more than two hours Sunday, demanding to meet with Paul Willging, executive vice president of American Health Care Association. AHCA, which represents nursing homes, is having its annual meeting at the hotel through Wednesday. ADAPT wants to meet with association members to ask for help in efforts to divert 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars for nursing homes to home health care. Opryland officials originally had set up a demonstration area in a parking lot next to the hotel, but there was some confusion by ADAPT leaders about the location so they decided to hold their protest at the main entrance to the popular and stately tourist attraction. Because of the nearly 300 activists in wheelchairs blocking the intersection, Metro police were forced to block off McGavock Pike, detouring hundreds of motorists — many who had intended to visit the hotel and tourist shops across McGavock. Police several times warned the protesters that they were close to being arrested, but the demonstration seemed to run smoothly as ADAPT leaders negotiated with an AHCA official. After more than two hours of protesting, AHCA officials agreed to meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday with 50 ADAPT members to discuss their concerns. ADAPT officials also agreed to hold off on protests until after the Tuesday meeting “This is what we've wanted, a chance to meet with them," ADAPT member Bob Kafka said after agreeing to the Tuesday meeting. Linda Keegan, the AHCA official who negotiated the Tuesday meeting, said her main concern is avoiding interruptions to the annual convention. “We don’t want any disruptions," she said, adding that the association shares many of ADAPT’s health care concerns. There are about 1.7 million people with disabilities in nursing homes, said Mike Auberger, national organizer of the protest and co-founder of ADAPT. “These people are imprisoned in nursing homes,” he said. "They need to be able to have a choice, and presently they don't.” “We’d like 25 percent of the Medicaid nursing home budget, $5.5 billion, rebudgeted to in-home services,” he said. “We need to provide a quality of life and hope,” he said. “I’m sorry for the inconvenience to the people here, but there are no rights in nursing homes,” Auberger said about the traffic tie-up. “We’re fighting for ourselves and for future people with disabilities.”
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PHOTO by Tom Olin?: A large semicircle of ADAPT activists are in a foyer at the bottom of a fancy stairway. It appears to be inside the Tennessee Capitol building. They have posters taped to their wheelchairs with messages like: "ADAPT: Nursing Homes Kill Loved Ones", "Volunteer McWherter for a Nursing Home," and "FREE [Our People]." From left to right Verlon McKay sits with white ADAPT cap and hand held out. Behind him Tom Cagle is standing; beside Verlon in a scooter is Barbara Bounds. Beside Barbara standing in the center with arms raised is Spitfire with hands raised in her white sweatshirt that says "I don't get mad I get arrested." Beside her Sharon and LaTonya Reeves are talking. Behind them are many more protesters facing the center too.
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Photo by Nashville Banner: ADAPT folks marching in their wheelchairs single file into the Tennessee Capitol building via the bunker like street entrance. Above and partly obscured, is the Greek looking above ground part of the capitol. Caption reads: ADAPT protesters enter the State First Street, across the Woodland Capitol after marching from North Street Bridge and through downtown. Title: Disabled-rights group now demands results By Rob Moritz Banner Staff Writer Disabled-rights activists are hoping for results as they meet today with American Health Care Association officials and next month with the governor. “What we've got now are meetings. What we want are results,” local disabled-rights organizer Diane Coleman said Monday outside the governor's office in the state Capitol. “The meetings are a first step, and that's good, but we do want results,” she added. Today’s 3 p.m. meeting with AHCA's executive board will be held at Opryland Hotel, where the nursing home group ia holding its annual convention. More than 200 members of Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today from 28 states protested at the hotel’s entrance Sunday before being granted a meeting with AHCA. ADAPT wants to divert 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars from nursing homes to home health care. On Monday, the same protesters — in wheelchairs — occupied the state Capitol for nearly six hours before being assured of an Oct. 11 meeting with Gov. Ned McWherter, who is on a two-week trade visit to Germany and Japan. The activists demonstrated at the state Capitol because they hadn’t received a response from a letter Coleman sent to McWherter earlier this month. The protesters blocked several offices, chanted and generally disrupted the afternoon work schedule for many state employees before Metro police and Capitol police arrived. No arrests were made. Metro police blocked off Charlotte Avenue near the Capitol during the demonstration, causing traffic tie-ups for downtown commuters. After nearly six hours of demonstrating and chants such as, “the people united will never be divided," and “up with attendant care, down with nursing homes," the group finally was told it could meet with the governor next month. “So far, Tennessee has chosen human warehouses over in-home services,” Coleman said, adding that more than 35,000 disabled people are in Tennessee nursing homes. “Put human rights over state rights," she said. Coleman says the letter she sent to the governor contains three requests: * That the governor establish a task force to study home care services for the elderly and disabled. * That he make a commitment to reverse what they believe is an institutional bias in long-term services funding in the state. * That he make a commitment to promote ADAPT’s goals at the National Governors Association. President Clinton's health care reform calls for the expansion of home care programs, Coleman said. Meanwhile, a Capitol cleaning crew worked - overtime Monday night to clean up trash left by ADAPT protesters.
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This Week in Healthcare Photo: Protesters in wheelchairs sit in a group chanting. Their signs read: "Is there a nursing home in your future?" and "Our Homes not Nursing Homes." Front row left to right is George Roberts with Larry Biondi and another person behind him, and Stephanie Thomas and Karen Tamley with signs. Caption reads: Wheelchair-bound members of ADAPT, a patient-advocacy group, disrupt AHCA’s meeting. Title: Disabled protest AHCA approach in lobbying for reform by John Burns [This article contines in ADAPT 815 but the entire text is included here for easier reading.] Nursing home providers weren’t the only ones recommending comprehensive long-term-care reform last week during the American Health Care Associations convention in Nashville, Tenn. More than 250 people, many of them disabled and wheelchair bound, demonstrated outside—and inside—the convention's Opryland Hotel headquarters to protest the AHCA’s lobbying of the Clinton administration for increased federal funding for nursing home care. The incident was the latest in a series of clashes between healthcare provider and consumer groups reacting to President Clinton's healthcare reform plan. Last month, the American Association of Retired Persons and Families USA, a consumer advocacy group, launched separate advertising campaigns attacking the lobbying efforts of several healthcare special-interest groups (See related story, p. 60). Early in the week, Paul Willging, AHCA’s executive vice president, outlined the associations agenda for reform to an audience of more than 2,000 nursing home administrators. More than 4,000 people attended last week's convention, the largest turnout in eight years. The group represents about 10,000 for-profit facilities. Mr. Willging commended the Clinton administration for the inclusion of steps in its reform plan to improve long-term-care financing. The plan calls for the creation of a long-term-care insurance market to help residents pay nursing home costs. “We've argued for years that the private sector offers an answer to escalating Medicaid spending... and to the forced impoverishment of millions of Americans due to their long-term-care needs,” Mr. Willging said. The AHCA’s platform for reform calls for a private-public partnership for long-term-care financing. Under their vision of coverage, private insurance would pay a large portion of nursing home costs, while the federal government would pay for the poor. However, eliminating the "imprisonment” - not impoverishment—of nursing home residents was the battle cry of hundreds of protesters from a group called Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today. The organization is a Denver-based patient advocacy group representing people with disabilities who would rather live at home than in nursing homes. Throughout the week, ADAPT members protested outside the Opryland Hotel, demanding that the group be allowed into the convention to debate its agenda. The group’s primary goal is to shift at least 25% of Medicaid spending now designated for nursing homes so the money could be used to develop home- and community-based long-term-care programs. The AHCA, which denied access to ADAPT members, did offer to meet with them in a closed-door session, said Claudia Askew, an AHCA spokeswoman. However, after talks broke down on Sept. 28, ADAPT protesters stormed the hotel, disrupting the convention and hotel traffic for hours. Nearly 100 ADAPT members were arrested. “We think we share a common goal of supporting additional funding for home-care services,” Ms. Askew said. “But, after today, I don’t know if we can come to any agreement.” This isn't the first time the association and ADAPT have clashed. Last year, ADAPT staged a similar protest during the AHCA’s convention in San Francisco, resulting in numerous protester arrests, she said.