PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- A locally based health care provider is taking new measures to help people with disabilities get proper dental care.
Deb Jastrebski has an adult son with down syndrome. When the people at AmeriHealth Caritas made the public announcement that they would be taking measures to treat people with disabilities, she teared up. Jabreski says hearing that the insurance company would take measures to properly train their dentists and promote an environment where people like her son could get care, made her emotional because of her family's pervious run-ins with the health care industry.
"They feel that if somebody gets upset you have to bring more people in and hold them down and then sedate them and hold them down some more," Jackson said, "and all that does is create a cycle of negativity."
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Deb Jastrebski has an adult son with down syndrome. When the people at AmeriHealth Caritas made the public announcement that they would be taking measures to treat people with disabilities, she teared up. Jabreski says hearing that the insurance company would take measures to properly train their dentists and promote an environment where people like her son could get care, made her emotional because of her family's pervious run-ins with the health care industry.
"They feel that if somebody gets upset you have to bring more people in and hold them down and then sedate them and hold them down some more," Jackson said, "and all that does is create a cycle of negativity."
Read the full article here!