Families defend troubled Rosewood

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Faced with reports of patient abuse and several advocates for people with disabilities demanding its closure, the Rosewood Center had an unlikely ally: Families of the patients who live there.

“We will rest easier knowing he can spend the rest of his life at Rosewood,” Harry Yost said of his son, Larry, who has lived at the center for the past 40 years. “We should be having admissions, not evictions.”

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