The incident has alarmed other residents and sparked a debate about safeguarding vulnerable people in the healthcare system
On a cloudy afternoon, Karina Cesena is sitting on a wall outside Hacienda HealthCare in south Phoenix. She’s probably craving a cigarette, a habit she’s picked up since her daughter, Jazzmyne Morris, suffered brain damage in a severe asthma attack four years ago. Cesena is wearing a Mickey Mouse hoodie and orange pyjama bottoms. She’s been sleeping in her daughter’s room for days, she says, ever since she heard that another Hacienda resident, who has been incapacitated for 26 years, gave birth to a baby boy on New Year’s Eve.
The woman’s name has not been released and available details are sparse. The woman is 29 and a member of the San Carlos Apache tribe, whose reservation is about an hour and a half south-east of Phoenix. She has lived at Hacienda since she was three, non-responsive as the result of a near-drowning.
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