Anchorage Daily News reporter Iris Samuels says the man behind a nonprofit that took the cases “bit off more than he could chew.”
When the state of Alaska transferred dozens of public guardianship cases to a nonprofit last year, the results included extended hospital stays, thousands of dollars in debt and lapses in public benefits for some of Alaska’s most vulnerable residents.ADN reporter Iris Samuels says the state has been swamped with public guardianship cases in recent years, which led them to outsource dozens of them.
So these are people for whom, again, a guardian is like their parent. The guardian makes all the decisions when it comes to health and finances. And when that paperwork isn’t filed, those decisions aren’t made. In some cases, clients were left in the hospital for months at a time when they should have been discharged because there was no one to discharge them. There’s no one to sign to approve a discharge.
And an Anchorage Superior Court has already determined that, at least in one case, the state is at fault for not appointing an attorney and not following the law. There is also another case where Cache Integrity Services was sued by one of their clients for failing to do what they’re supposed to do.
So basically, it takes two years to train a public guardian. It takes a long time to learn all the things that a guardian needs to be able to do, and they can’t keep that staff long enough. I do think that this has to do with the staffing in the Office of Public Advocacy. And it may be a fact that you just cannot recruit the kind of people, the kind of skilled people, that you need to do this job well, for whatever reason.
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