We, the undersigned, support the disabled residents of Philadelphia’s Inglis House and demand that the PA Attorney General immediately investigate mismanagement of the Inglis endowment and the pending sale of their home to a private equity firm specializing in the dismantling of non-profit hospitals and the outsourcing of vital therapeutic services.

This is not just a sell-out of the most-vulnerable members of our society – but a complete betrayal of the 150-year old Inglis mission. AG Shapiro should perform a thorough forensic audit of the Executive Team’s conduct and act accordingly by halting this sale.

Founded in 1877, Inglis specializes in services to adults with severe neurodegenerative physical disabilities resulting in paraplegia and quadriplegia. The 252 current residents — all wheelchair users — are diagnosed with a range of neurological and musculoskeletal disorders such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury.

The namesake of Inglis House, Annie Inglis of Philadelphia, contracted scarlet fever as a young child and was left permanently disabled. The charitable endowment formed by Annie Inglis’ family in the 1870s to sustain Inglis House flourished for the past 150 years despite two World Wars, the Great Depression, and numerous recurrences of economic recession and market upheaval.

The endowment persisted by conscientious management of pragmatic investments and prudent operational decisions -- until the current Board’s Executive Team arrived in 2016 with new and clearly unsuccessful imperatives. 

Dramatic operating revenue losses reported by Inglis began in 2016 coinciding with the arrival of a new CEO and Board Chairman.  Recent assertions about “dire concerns for the $240 million endowment's solvency” are being used to justify the shocking sale of this storied charitable facility.

This disastrous decision to sell the Inglis House facility to a private equity firm was negotiated in secrecy without input from residents or donors and will be a tragic loss to the disabled community in Pennsylvania.

The disabled face enough challenges as it is – and the differential in power in this circumstance is daunting. The Inglis Board still intends to retain control of $220 million in endowment funds even after selling the residents out!

Our best -- and frankly, only hope is to raise public awareness - please sign this position and share with your friends and family.  Today we’re respectfully asking PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro to simply do the right thing; investigate this ill-considered sale of a vital, 150-year-old charitable non-profit hospital and make Annie Inglis proud by putting the human rights of the disabled residents of Inglis House above the short-term profit-driven motivations of speculative investors. 

Please, help.