ANN ARBOR, MI (MPRN)— Home care agencies are discharging severely injured car crash patients at a faster pace.
That's because there's been no fix to the 2019 auto no-fault law. The law lets insurance companies pay only about half the cost of care.
At Arcadia Home Care, which has locations throughout Michigan, half the agency's car crash patients are being let go. Executive Theresa Ruediselli says there are no good alternatives for the patients.
"Some family members are taking FMLA in a stop-gap type of manner and others are being institutionalized," she says.
Arcadia also cares for Red Wings legend Vladimir Konstantinov, who was severely injured in a car crash in 1997. Friends and family are trying to fundraise so he doesn't lose his care, too.