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Tuis / Albums / San Francisco - Laguna Honda, fall 2001 23
Skep datum / 2013 / Julie / 18
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Foreign language article about the ADAPT action.
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PHOTO: There is a lot of motion in this picture. A person in wheelchair, wearing a yellow shirt is turned away from the camera toward a set of double doors that say public entrance, with a wheelchair symbol. Around this person are Five law enforcement people. One man wearing black gloves is grabbing the chair with both hands. Two others are holding their hands in front of themselves toward the wheelchair in a somewhat feeble looking attempt to stop it.
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PHOTO: In front of San Francisco City Hall doors with their ornate embellishments, sits a group of ADAPT protesters. Left in the back is Rick James, in front to his left is someone with a hat completely covered in buttons who appears to be taking a picture. Behind and to the left stands Carolyn Long in her mirror sunglasses chanting. Beside her is a woman in a wheelchair also chanting and beside her is another woman standing and chanting. In front is a man in a wheelchair who is taking a picture. (They are at the top of a bunch of steps that overlook a large park in front of city hall. and there is a big crowd in the park, though you can't see that part in this picture.)
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PEOPLE IN WHEEL CHAIRS DO NOT WANT TO DIE IN NURSING HOME! THEY DEMAND THEIR VOICE TO BE HEARD TERMS TO BE MET! A large group of the Disabled Population known as ADAPT protested at Laguna Hunda Hospital protesting "Free our People". The Disabled group was represented from all parts of the U.S. and have protested before in other states, facilities, hospitals, courts, and as far as the Federal and Legislative Governments. The purpose of the protest was to oppose the funding in which the hospital was recipient to funds to re-model the hospital with Medicaid funds. Funds were to be dispensed for the re-building of the hospital which was creating the same restrictive environment that institutionalizes peoples lives. ADAPT demands were to allocate funds instead for the building to be scattered affordable and accessible housing in which would enable persons with disabilities to have choices in their lives where they would have their home. The city of San Francisco owns the Laguna Hunda Hospital so the city could have the choice of what to do with the hospital. The protest continued peacefully throughout the week. A spokesperson for the ADAPT group were in hoping to meet with the Mayor Willie Brown to discuss options for the disabled community.
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ADAPT To: Governor Davis From: ADAPT Date: October 23, 2001 Subject: Most Integrated Setting The rebuilding and funding of Laguna Honda Hospital is an example of California's non-compliance with the Olmstead decision. ADAPT wants you, Governor Davis, to do the following: 1) Allow Laguna Honda residents to use Medicaid funds for community alternatives so they can live and receive support services in the most integrated setting. In other words, let the money follow the individual. 2) Refuse to use state dollars to match Medicaid funding for any individual in, or in danger of going into, Laguna Honda. Also refuse to allow any state dollars to be used for the rebuilding of this facility. 3) Develop, fund and implement, by February 2002, a comprehensive, effectively working plan (with goals of numbers of people to get out within given timeframes) that gets and keeps people out of nursing homes and other institutions. 4) Write a letter to the National Governor's Association requesting a meeting between their Executive Committee and ADAPT representatives. 5) Meet with ADAPT.
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PHOTO: Two SFPD police officers, in a crowd of almost a dozen blue uniforms, have a man [Jeff Fox] sitting on the ground by his arms to lift him into his manual wheelchair beside him. Another officer is holding the chair still. They all have big batons and other equipment hanging from their belts. Jeff, with his long hair and beard, windbreaker, jeans and hightop sneakers, is sitting on some kind of yellow banner on what seems to be the street with a woman with blonde hair, glasses a jacket and jeans, and you can see the foot of a third person.
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[headline] LAGUNA HONDA ALTERNATIVE HOUSING PROPOSAL The Atlantis Community Incorporated (ACI) is a Colorado not for profit corporation funded in part by the Department of Education. ACI is the second oldest Independent Living Center (ILC) in the country. ACI offers myriad of services that include; providing multifamily housing, multifamily access modification, Section 8 Voucher Administration, home mortgages for individuals with disabilities, home ownership counseling for individuals assistance to find housing both multifamily and single family, peer counseling, independent living skills training, information referral, advocacy, attendant services, wheelchair sales and repair, and more. In addition ACI is a Certified Housing Development Organization (CHDO). Atlantis has developed three multifamily housing projects and its own thirty-eight thousand square foot office / warehouse complex. The multifamily projects provide affordable, accessible, integrated housing. Twenty percent of each of the projects provides accessible housing units to individuals or families with disabilities. ACI also owns two duplexes in which transitional housing is provided. As a Certified Housing Development Organization (CHDO) Atlantis is interested in partnering with the San Francisco Center for Independent Living (SFCIL) to offer the City of San Francisco an alternative to rebuilding Laguna Honda. Atlantis Community Incorporated believes that the Laguna Honda Property can be developed to provide affordable, accessible, integrated multifamily and single family housing. Laguna Honda's sixty-five acres allow for a significant number of both single and multifamily housing can be constructed on the site. In addition the site lends itself to multiple multifamily high-rise buildings. The Laguna Honda Property not only is capable of containing both single and multifamily housing there is opportunity for significant green space. It is also possible to add retail space to the project with little difficulty or loss of green space too. [Subheading] INFRASTRUCTURE There will need to be an infrastructure created to allow for the redevelopment of the Laguna Honda site. It will be necessary to reroute water, sewer, gas and electric to meet the needs of redevelopment. There will be fifteen thousand feet of road, water, sewer, gas and electric added to the multifamily redevelopment project. The single family portion of the Laguna Honda redevelopment will add an additional ten thousand feet of road, sewer, water, gas, and electric. [Subheading] Multifamily Housing It is possible on Laguna Honda's sixty-five acre site to construct six, thirty-one story, multifamily high-rise buildings set on five acre tracts. Included on the five acre sites will be the thirty-one story building, two hundred and seventy-five above ground parking spaces, an Olympic size swimming pool, six tennis courts, and terraced gardens. Each of the thirty story buildings is comprised of two hundred and forty one bed room units and sixty two bedroom units and includes a common laundry area. The ground floor of each of the thirty-one story buildings will include retail space which will off set a portion of the construction costs. The six, thirty-one story buildings will provide one thousand eight hundred units of housing. Each of the buildings will incorporate universal design and twenty percent of the units will be accessible providing three hundred and sixty units for individuals with disabilities. [Subheading] Single-family housing: The Laguna Honda Site not only allows for eighteen hundred new multifamily units but it will also support three hundred single family homes. There will be twenty-five one bedroom homes, seventy-five two bedroom homes, one hundred and seventy three bedroom homes, and thirty bedroom homes. The single family homes will be located on a twenty acre site within the Laguna Honda property. [Subheading] Conclusion: The Laguna Honda Redevelopment Project at its conclusion will provide one thousand eight hundred multifamily units and three hundred single family homes. The Laguna Honda Site after redevelopment will provide affordable accessible, integrated housing to two thousand one hundred individuals and or families. In addition there will be four hundred and twenty multi and single family homes available for people with disabilities.
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San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area AND NATION & WORLD SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2001 EDITORIALS A16 A13 [Headline] S.F.'s plan to keep Laguna Honda draws protest [Subheading] Disability rights activists say city's nursing home too large By Kathleen Sullivan CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER A disability rights group known for civil disobedience is scheduled to protest tomorrow San Francis-co's plans to rebuild Laguna Hon-da Hospital, the nursing home the group considers a "dinosaur." Activists from ADAPT — Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs — plan to march around the hospital as part of their effort to oppose its reconstruction. The group, which is holding its semiannual meeting in San Francisco through Wednesday, also, plans deliver a petition to City Hall, asking for a public forum to reconsider the $401.6 million construction project. "We support exploring all alternatives to the rebuilding of Laguna Honda as a nursing home, and support all efforts to transition or divert people with disabilities, including seniors, from institutional settings,' it says. Although voters overwhelmingly approved a 1909 bond measure to rebuild Laguna Honda, ADAPT and other disability rights groups continue to oppose the project. "We don't think anybody, old or young, needs to be institutionalized," said ADAPT spokesman Bob Kafka. "They need to be sup-ported in the community." ADAPT, which is based in Denver, has more than 5,000 members across the country. Kafka criticized the high cost of providing medical care at Laguna Honda. He also decried the size and layout of the hospital, which has 1,065 residents, most of whom live in open wards. When the new hospital is completed in 2009, the open wards will be gone, replaced by rooms for one, two or four people. But the new design has not' mollified ADAPT or the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, which sued San Francisco and several state agencies last year, charging that they had violated federal law by denying community care to 10 residents. "We absolutely support and agree with our ADAPT colleagues that Laguna Honda Hospital is a symbol of all that's wrong with services for people with disabilities and for seniors," said Marilyn Golden, a spokeswoman for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund in Berkeley. "The disability movement as a whole is working to emphasize home- and community-based options for housing and services, and San Francisco is really buck-ing the trend by rebuilding the country's largest nursing home." Laguna Honda, which serves the city's poorest citizens, provides 24-hour nursing care to frail, elderly people, and younger patients with progressive nerve diseases, head injuries and AIDS. The new complex will house 1,200 residents in four nursing buildings. An assisted living center for 140 residents is expected to open in 2012. Dr. Mitchell Katz, director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, which oversees Laguna Honda, said the new hospital will provide the privacy residents deserve and continue to meet their needs for 24-hour care. "Most counties say: 'Twenty-four hour care is nice, but it's too expensive and we're not willing to pay for that,' " he said. "San Francisco is unique in its willingness to pay for that. It's hard to feel that's a flaw." Katz defended San Francisco's commitment to providing home-and community-based care, saying that the county spends more per capita on such services than any other county in the state. Included among its programs are adult day health centers serving 1,800 people; in-home services for 10,400 low-income residents with chronic and disabling conditions who need help bath-ing, eating and dressing; and hotel rooms — with nurses and social workers on staff — for people re-leased from Laguna Honda and San Francisco General Hospital. E-mail Kathleen Sullivan at ksullivan@sfchronicle.com.
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[three small articles] Tuesday October 23, 2001 San Francisco Chronicle [first article] [image] [image caption] Penni Gladstone/ The Chronicle Activists for the rights of the disabled, many of them in wheelchairs, blocked off the streets around San Francisco City Hall yesterday afternoon and halted traffic in the Civic Center area. They also blocked the main entrances to City Hall. They were protesting the city's plan to rebuild Laguna Honda Hospital, its long-term care center. Critics want the hospital closed and public money and emphasis shifted to in-home care and community-operated facilities. The protesters, who numbered more than 100, are affiliated with Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs, the Denver group that is holding its semiannual meeting in San Francisco. [second article] A 18 San Francisco Chronicle Thursday, October 25, 2001 [headline] Rights Protest Parade [image] [image caption] Brant Ward/ The Chronicle Activists from Denver's Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs, in San Francisco for their semiannual meeting, led a protest parade from City Hall to United Nations Plaza yesterday, where they blocked entrances to the Federal Building in a third and final day of demonstrations against the voter-approved plan to rebuild Laguna Honda Hospital. ADAPT favors small-scale, community-based care, but Mayor Willie Brown met with protesters to say he cannot reverse the voters' decision. [third article] San Francisco Examiner Thursday October 25, 2001 [Headline] Sit-in [image] [no image caption] Joann Donnell of Kansas shots: "Our homes, not nursing homes" during a protest outside the federal building at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco on Wednesday. Disabled residents protested living conditions for the third straight day. Karen Vibert-Kennedy/ Examiner
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San Francisco Examiner October 24, 2001 [Headline] Laguna Honda plans make disabled sick By Fred Dodsworth Of The Examiner Staff Chanting "I'd rather go to jail than die in a nursing home," more than 400 disabled activists, attendants and supporters blockaded the California State Office Building and closed the four surrounding intersections from noon until after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Showing restraint and good humor, the San Francisco Police Department arrested 109 of them. Representatives of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) flew in from around the country to protest the rebuilding of Laguna Honda Hospital as a 1,200-bed assisted-living community. They said they hoped to meet with Mayor Willie Brown and a representative from Gov. Gray Davis' office to negotiate community-based alternatives to the hospital, but at the last moment Davis' office refused to budge, and the police moved in. Disabled activists say Laguna Honda is an example of the worst possible solution for their needs. They claim the building is isolated, difficult to navigate in a wheelchair, demeaning, impersonal and more expensive than community-based assisted living. "People with disabilities deserve to have a choice," said Jana Overbo, who works as an advocate at the Independent Living Center on Mission Street. "A lot of the people at Laguna Honda are stuck there," she said. "They have no choice about it." After negotiations disintegrated, Capt. Alex Fagin of the Northern District Police Station notified the group that they were participating in an unlawful assembly and would be arrested if they didn't leave. [image] [image caption] Karen Vibert-Kennedy/ Examiner. Protest for access: Anita Cameron of Denver hands out leaflets. The protesters blocked intersections around the state building. [text resumes] He gave those with special medical needs about a half hour to leave the area. Between 10 and 20 persons remained at each of the four intersections, waiting to be cited and released. "This is not how we wanted it to end, but the police did a fantastic job," said Walter Park from the Mayor's Office on Disability. The activists agreed, saying the police went out of their way to help them negotiate with the Governor's Office and to accommodate the disabled. The mayor has promised to meet with the activists this morning, said his spokesman P.J. Johnston. E-mail Fred Dodsworth at fdodsworth@sfexaminer.com [image] [image caption] Moving along: Disabled protesters are forcibly removed by the California Highway Patrol after blocking the entrance to the State of California Office Building on Golden Gate Avenue on Tuesday/ Terry Schmitt/ Special to The Examiner
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