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Source: YouTube/WHAS11; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJY8t_np1rQ

This afternoon, like many Kentuckians, I received an email from Gov. Andy Beshear’s communications office. The subject line read, “The General Assembly’s Senseless and Avoidable Budget Cuts Are Hurting Kentuckians.” As the mother of a 20-year-old son with profound autism, my heart skipped a beat. I am all too familiar with the terrifying reality of service cuts. My life is dictated by them.

Kentucky’s governor said he’s going to use money slotted for the Capitol annex renovation to help save a clinic at risk of losing millions in funding.

For more than an hour on Wednesday, parents and community advocates pleaded with Kentucky leaders to reverse budget cuts that threaten to shutter Lee Specialty Clinic in Louisville. 

It was a mixture of shock and outrage that spurred Mary Bentley into action when she … Patients ‘ripped away’ from needed care amid Kentucky budget feud (Courier-Journal)Read more

Kentucky lawmakers are now in conversations to add funding back to a clinic relied on by over a thousand families. Lee Specialty Clinic in south Louisville makes life-changing improvements in its adult patients, for example, helping them learn to speak.

Staff say despite the risk of patients biting them, they want to keep their jobs and … Families plan Frankfort rally to save specialty clinic for adults needing special care (WHAS11)Read more

Patients with disabilities are losing access to a unique health clinic. State leaders said budget cuts … Patients with disabilities face fewer care options as Louisville clinic cuts services (Spectrum News)Read more

More than 1,000 of Kentucky’s most medically complex patients are set to lose their healthcare home, … ‘They have nobody’: Louisville clinic serving Kentuckians with disabilities facing deep cuts (Shay McAlister/shay informed)Read more