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3 08/02/ : ~/.T:!JP~2 TUU: H: 14 FAX H DSABLTY LAW CTR PAGE 84 PCGE PAGE 86 HAPDEN SUPEJOR COURT Marla DeJeNs. beleve thou Palmra[]s condton would +sen and she would requre nursng home pllc:emclt f her daugbt", Mara DeJesus, s not allo~d to contnue 88 her peroola! care atteodant." } Jennfer McCannon, a Sklls Traner from Stavros, 2!tstfed at the bearng lhat, "Through my course of workng wth them, weve tred many dfterent!routes, and fndng PCAa and gettng nto Adult Day Programs, and nodln seems to work! except to have Mara worldng fur her ntother." (Hearng Mnutes ("H.M.1, at 31). She also c!preased her belef that Garca would bavc to go to a nursng homt f a waver was not~ and that wollld compromse the qllllltt) and quantty of Gardas lfe M well as defeat the JNPose of the Stavros program. (H.M., at 31 32), ~s Brown, Advocate &0111 Stavros, added th~ "no nursng home could prdvde p11mblo care that the daughtlr can provde." (H.M., at ~2). She also stated that t would be more cost effectve for the claughter to provde the.;are lls~ of placn Garca n a nur!ng home. (ll.m., at 33).. On June 26,2001, the Board of Hearngs (Levn. M.t H.O.) dened the plantffs 11ppeal llld held that the DvBon correctly determned tha DteslS may not be pad as her mothers PCA: ~n the case at haod the reaulaton s clear. MassHe$1th does not allow for famly members to be pad as a PCA. 130 CMR dtfnes a faully mclllber as a chlld, spowo, parent, son-n-law or daughter-n-law. The ~llants ream testfed n a vecy credble manner, and documerw:d all the pont& they msde. However, whle the Hearng Offcer s sympa1hedc to the appellants stuaton, rle regulaton does not provde f)r 411Y exceptons, or for tle ablty to gntd.t a waver. Unfl)rtunately, ths appeal must be dened."! 1 StaVl\lS Center for ndepenclent Lvna, nc.;tbe fscal ntermedary, to whch Garcas prmary eare phyllcan refemd Garca. 3

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5 / lj& ,,-*- c DS&BLTV LAW CTR PAGE 06 PAGE 88 0 questons of fact for of the Ct 565,572 (19%). M&.743,750(1997), * 5

6 11: /01/2002. t DSABLTV LAW CTR 1 PAGE 07 PAGE! the benefts of the servces, of a publc v. 901 F. 471,478 ( PCA the Fnally, she!

7 BB/B2/2BB : ,, 08/0v2002 L l~~t A VA 14: ,,, * e ) t * -. $ *\* L; J.O llla ~41JfJ"/ Hll DSABLTY DSABLTV LAW CTR HAHPDEN SU~!OR COl~ PAGE 08 PAGE PAGE 10 l&m lb010 argue1 that, f the Dvson does not pay her dauahter, she wl~ be placed n a nursng faclty n volat!oo. of the l1tegraton mandate of the ADA.. The Dvson counters that Garca s not a qualfed +vdual wth a dsablty becjse she cannot fnd a rembursable PCA under the regulatoll. 4 4 argues that a waver of a reaso1111b!y necessary progr.un requrements s not a reasonable lwcommodaton. The.Dvllon also SsetU that t dld Mt deey GfJ"cla bedefts or subject her~ dl~on because of her. dsablty. Rathor, t states that, through no fault of ts awn. ~ca cannot meet 111 essental elgblty requrement j As an ntal mattl:r, contrazy to the Dvsons assert~n, tho plant1tlw.deqwltely preserved!ulr dlacrlmnaton clams fur ths courts revew. t Dvson argues that the u&lo. ssue tbat ~partes fully ltgat&d below was whether "the qlvson s decson to termnate payments tn the Pl8lntff s daughter for personal care servce rendered to 1he Plantff was coll:!~tent wth the Dvson n~gulatons." Defen~ts ~sng Memorandum, 13. Gerca counters that she preserved her clams at 1he ntal hearng whm sho asked :fur a waver or an e~~ on to the regulaton, and that, after the Dsablty Law!Center began to represent her, her. request for a rehearng nc!~ her dlst:rllnlnaton clams. Plllnlffs Reply MernonndUO, at 1 : 3. Tbe a~y had full opportwrty 10 addzess Garca~ d~on clamll but declned 1o do so when t dened Garea a rehearng. Under these olroums,ces, Garcas psesent d&crmnllton cbms are properly before ths court. Oarcla s a qwl1lfed udvdual for purposes of the JA. The Dvson has already 4 The Dvson concedes that t s subject to theada. Defendants Opposng Memorandum, at 15, n. 11, t also does not dspute that the *lallt.ff s dsabled. ld,. at 16. 7!

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