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Resume of an Activist
Anne C Woodlen Syracuse NY 13210 ribs2007@yahoo.com “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?’” ―Thomas S. Monson In 2001 I began the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, antidepressants, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, Citizens Review Board, citizenship, City of Syracuse, Crouse Hospital, David Sutkowy, depression, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, HUD, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS DOH, NYS OMIG, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Office of Medicaid Inspector General, Onondaga County Legislature, Onondaga County New York, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Police Dept., values, Visiting Nurses Association, VNA, Welfare
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Skip Two Steps and Listen
What follows is a treatise on governance that is relevant to all those who govern and those who are governed. It grew out of a meeting a week ago between county officials and people with disabilities. The county had established … Continue reading
Who’s Afraid of the Idiots in Government?
So the new home health aide hours that Onondaga County has authorized—“effective immediately,” which was on Monday, August 20—are to go on the call-out list, which consists of about eight agencies that have contracted to serve poor people. John, the … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Health Care, Values, Power, disability, disability rights, advocacy, activism, Humor, Medical care, American medical industry, Poverty, Medicaid
Tagged health care, Governance, disability rights, diagnosis, values, Medicaid, Freedom, problem solving, disability, Health, patients, VESID, poverty, Onondaga County New York, Office of Aging, home health aide, skilled nursing, government, executive dysfunction, Long Term Care Resource Center, John Terry, Cathy Dutton
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Curing Depression, and Ain’t Payback a Bitch?
Several hundred of you have been following my problem with the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), so let’s use it as a teaching moment. Follow the bouncing activist to learn how to effectively complain. I wrote up the story of how the … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Health Care, Power, disability, Fraud, advocacy, activism, Medical care, American medical industry, Depression, Medicaid
Tagged health care, democracy, disability rights, Medicaid, problem solving, power, complaint, disability, Health, patients, poverty, Onondaga County New York, Onondaga County Dept. of Social Services, fair hearing, OMIG, NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, Dept. of Social Services, Medicaid Fraud Unit, NYS Dept. of Health, Medical Answering Service, MAS, Zachery Karmen, Nurse, Visiting Nurse Association, DOH, home health care agency, VNA, Gail Carmichael, Amor Bango, Sharon Cwikla, Kate Rolf, NYS Dept. of Education, DOE, NYS Commission on Quality of Care, CQC
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The SPD That Can’t Do Anything Right
At 6:22 a.m. a car alarm started sounding outside my window—well, somewhere outside my window. I live on the eighth floor, so it wasn’t directly outside my window. Directly under my window is a Crouse Hospital parking lot. If the … Continue reading
The End of the Incident
In response to “The Incident” (http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/the-incident/ ) someone called “pro police” (propolice@aol.com ) commented: “FYI, the Syracuse Community Review Board [sic] found that the Officer’s actions were appropriate in this incident. For those that do not know, the Syracuse CRB is … Continue reading
Posted in activism, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged bully, Citizen Review Board, CRB, democracy, Dept. of Internal Affairs, disability, disability rights, Governance, mentally disabled, Office of Professional Standards, Officer Malinowski, Onondaga County New York, People, physically disabled, policies, power, problem solving, SPD, Syracuse Police Dept., training, values
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Lights—and Everything Else—Out.
All the lights went out. So did the air conditioners, computer, clock and music. In the hall, the fire doors banged closed. In HUD high-rise apartment buildings, that’s the sure sign of a building-wide power failure: the fire doors are … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Housing, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness
Tagged 911, Air conditioning, cell phone, disability, fire department, HUD, Kane, National Grid, Onondaga County New York, power, Power outage, problem solving
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Water Doesn’t Flow Up
Anne: You are right, that the problem devolves into a political concern. However, it’s not simply a matter of “hierarchies,” but the way in which the struggle to overcome that polity emerges. Complaining about the abuses of the system is … Continue reading
Posted in Government Services, Power, disability rights, advocacy, activism, Powerlessness, Medicaid
Tagged Governance, democracy, disability rights, Medicaid, problem solving, power, complaint, Onondaga County New York, Medicaid transportation, St. Joseph's Hospital, CPEP, activist, government, Maxwell School, Federal Transit Administration, citizen, hierarchy, activism, United States Department of Justice, advocacy, action
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Of Heat Waves and Chest Pains
What do you do when life gets tough? When you’re in the middle of a heat wave (at least three days with the temperature over 90 degrees) or having chest pains, what do you do? If you called me up … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, disability, God, Health Care, Mental Illness & Health, Spirituality
Tagged Air conditioning, chest pain, chest pains, God, Health, health care, heart disease, Heat wave, heat waves, Lord, mental disorder, mental health, patience, patients, perseverance, Prayer, problem solving, Temperature, weather
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On Being Black (Part I)
Being disabled is a lot like being African-American in that both are about physical qualities that have nothing to do with the essence of being human. In biblical terms, what we’re talking about here are the clay pots that contain the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Poverty, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged accessibility, ADA, african american, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, black, Civil Rights, County Executive, disability, disability rights, discrimination, equality, Oncenter, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, problem solving, values, War Memorial
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