A Florida nurse has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault of a disabled teenager, according to police. Nia Ayers, 24, has been accused of assaulting an 18-year-old quadriplegic, non-verbal ...

The 18-year-old is developmentally disabled, non-verbal, quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, and has minimal vision. To cover ...

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In North Carolina, there's an 18-year-old woman who has had to live in a hospital since she was 13. Now the hospital is suing her to leave. She wants to live somewhere else, too, but not where the ...

DECATUR — The Army soldier may have quadriplegia and be unable to speak, but he still stood up to a nurse who is charged with molesting him.

Congregate living health facilities, which assist quadriplegics and others with serious medical needs, say they have relied on the same level of payments from the state for decades. California was ...

She is a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator and has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. From her hospital bed, Alexis Ratcliff asks a question: "What 18-year-old gets sued?" ...

From her hospital bed, Alexis Ratcliff asks a question: "What 18-year-old gets sued?" Ratcliff is that 18-year-old, sued by the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., that wants her to leave. Ratcliff, a ...

The nurses, doctors and staff have been some of Ratcliff's biggest supporters, and her best friends. Last spring, when Ratcliff graduated from high school, staff on the pediatric side, Brenner ...