Meeting Date
- Opening quotation
- “I subscribe to what’s called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.”- Stella Young
- Agenda
- Christa Moran - Enhancing Healthcare Equity for Patients with Disabilities
- Slides presented: https://drive.google.com/file/d/137h0OAMi0Y_rrMKZU7ZNbRob4Y1NGtRb/view?usp=sharing
- Access to clinics
- Implementing considerations in design for:
- Invisible disabilities
- Religious observations
- Patients with anxiety
- Implementing considerations in design for:
- Why do we need to provide accommodations:
- The law
- It’s the right thing to do
- Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (sometimes referred to as Obamacare)
- Included some specific on accommodating patients with disabilities
- Some rolled back during Trump’s first term and then put back into place under Biden
- Included hospital requirements like signage
- Some rolled back during Trump’s first term and then put back into place under Biden
- Mandatory training for staff was implemented
- A one time training for patient facing staff that focused on language access
- Everyone in the health system has to take it.
- Other training is offered but this is mandatory
- What is included?
- Video of Pam Mcguinty talking about the usage of clear masks
- Auxiliary aids and services free of charge
- Includes communication access especially concerning patients with visual loss
- How to make the clinic more accessible
- Note takers, interpreters, telephone amplifiers, assistive listening devices, closed captions, braille
- Part of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability
- A one time training for patient facing staff that focused on language access
- Included some specific on accommodating patients with disabilities
- Created a disability tab in MyChart
- MyChart includes all the basic information about the patient including:
- Allergies, pronouns, name, demographics
- Goal of this is so that patients don’t have to constantly ask and advocate.
- Including a disability section allowed clinics to:
- know if an interpreter was needed at an appointment
- Assign larger rooms to patients in wheelchairs
- Ensure the patient has access to the assistance they need
- MyChart includes all the basic information about the patient including:
- Guide provided by CDHW with resources
- Questions
- What should people who don’t identify as disabled do? Like if you need larger text?
- Ask for larger text. It’s important that hospitals start giving patients access to things like this and some doctors have already started printing in larger text.
- Do you have any training for providers about body diversity and sizism?
- No but this is being implemented more and more into medical school.
- Who do you reach out to talk to if accommodations aren't being provided and things of that nature in the health system?
- Start with the clinic itself
- What should people who don’t identify as disabled do? Like if you need larger text?
- Disability Navigator Program
- This program is expanding in the fall.
- The Disability Justice Network and Provost on Disability Affairs is looking for feedback by June 28th
- Neubacher Award
- Updates to be sent by email
- Christa Moran - Enhancing Healthcare Equity for Patients with Disabilities
- Other Matters Arising
- Announcements
- Disability pride month in July
- Anything to share with the Council?
- Announcements
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