Yakima County, Washington Valley Residents Losing Critical Disability Care

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Roughly 30,000 people in Yakima County are disabled in some way that hinders their ability to work, whether it's a mental illness or back problems or an amputation. Fewer than a thousand of those have developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy or Down syndrome, handicaps that require constant care for most, if not all, of their lives. And 15 of these individuals with severe disabilities will be losing crucial adult day health services offered at EnTrust Community Services at the end of this year, as legislative cuts and changes in Medicaid funding . . .