Headline : He was stuck in a hospital for 8 months. How states can fail people with disabilities

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Lloyd Mills, who has autism, cerebral palsy and mental illness, has the legal right to be housed in a community setting with the supports he needs. But Georgia, like other states, has critical holes in its system meant to support people with disabilities. Sam Whitehead/KFF Health News hide caption

ATLANTA — Lloyd Mills was tired of being stuck in a small, drab hospital room. On a rainy mid-September morning, a small TV attached to a mostly blank white wall played silently. There was nothing in the space to cheer it up — no cards, no flowers.

In February, the 32-year-old with autism, cerebral palsy, and kidney disease was brought to Grady Memorial Hospital from the group home where he had been living because he was having auditory hallucinations and suicidal thoughts, he said.

"Being here is not helping me, mentally, physically, emotionally," Mills said.

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