Why did Washington State pay 12 million dollars to a rehab center in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Twelve million dollars: That's how much Washington state spent to send 16 patients with traumatic brain injuries to a rehabilitation center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
All of these patients had something in common: their injuries had led to behavior issues that were extremely hard to manage because there was no where to treat them in Washington. But once these patients got to Oklahoma, there was minimal oversight of their care by state officials and no plan for when they would return home.
Ross Reynolds spoke with KUOW Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins about his investigation. They are joined by Katie Walker, whose mother was in a car accident in 2010 and suffered a traumatic brain injury. She has been in Brookhaven for three years and is still there.
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Matt Martin
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Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.
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