developmental disabilities administration

Mysterious bruises. An unreported burn. Two vulnerable clients left alone overnight. These are just some of the complaints that families are leveling against Aacres WA — a troubled residential care provider that gets tens of millions of dollars a year from the state to care for people with developmental disabilities. Now state officials say they’re investigating.

At Christmastime last December, Sharon Gowdey was a healthy 56-year-old woman with Down syndrome. A video from a holiday party shows her in a Santa hat…

Just before 3 a.m. on Feb. 27, 2019, an overnight caregiver woke up Marion Wilson, a developmentally disabled 64-year-old, so that she could be given a…

As families of people with developmental disabilities in Washington struggle to get access to state-paid services, there’s a renewed push to link funding…

This January, Carolyn Guinotte took her son Alan to the emergency room because he was unable to go to the bathroom. Alan is 30 years old, autistic and…

Christopher Davis was lying on the floor watching cartoons one night last December while his mother, Beverly, decorated her Spokane home for…

The state of Washington is canceling two more contracts with a troubled provider of in-home care to people with developmental disabilities in Spokane…

A major provider of in-home care for developmentally disabled adults in Washington has announced it will cease operations in King County in the coming…

Five months after the state of Washington shut down a major provider of in-home care for the developmentally disabled, the company that took over care for…

In an unprecedented move, the state of Washington is shutting down a major provider of in-home care for developmentally disabled adults in King, Spokane…