Federal Court in Georgia Protects Children’s Skilled Nursing Hours: Overturns Attempts to Wean Children off Program

On September 27, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division, in Hunter v. Cook, issued an order (the Order) to the Georgia Department of Community Health (GDCH) to prevent it from providing less than 18 hours per day of skilled nursing care to two severely disabled children (the Plaintiffs) following…