[NFBofSC] Fwd: FYI Fwd: ADA National Network Learning Session: Healthcare and Civil Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Updates from HHS Office for Civil Rights and the DOJ

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> Date: April 18, 2022 at 12:21:49 AM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: FYI Fwd: ADA National Network Learning Session: Healthcare and Civil Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Updates from HHS Office for Civil Rights and the DOJ
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>> From: Mea Medicus <meamedicus at gmail.com>
>> Date: April 17, 2022 at 11:15:38 PM EDT
>> To: Amelia Nelson <Ameliarosenelson51 at gmail.com>, Honig Hillary <Hbeans at frontier.com>
>> Subject: Fwd: FYI Fwd: ADA National Network Learning Session: Healthcare and Civil Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Updates from HHS Office for Civil Rights and the DOJ
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>> April 17, 2021
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>> Are you interested in this webinar about healthcare, disability, ADA, and the DOJ?
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>> The last day to sign up for this April 28 webinar at 2:30pm is April 27, 2022.
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>> ~Miche Bush
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>>> From: Timothy Miles <timothy.miles at triangledac.org>
>>> Date: April 15, 2022 at 4:55:00 PM EDT
>>> To: DaRice Johnson <daricejohnson88 at gmail.com>, Charles Williams <charles.williams at triangledac.org>, Dan Parks Badgett <datanrisk at gmail.com>, Donnie Best <best6834 at twc.com>, Julia Thornton <julia.thornton at triangledac.org>, Lee Davis <lmdavis at mindspring.com>, Lynn Shields <lynn.shields at triangledac.org>, "M. b" <tigerdog96 at gmail.com>, Marge Clemons <marge.clemons at triangledac.org>, Maria corchado <haidecor1217 at gmail.com>, Arthur Lechner <awlechner982 at gmail.com>, Mea Medicus <meamedicus at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: FYI Fwd: ADA National Network Learning Session: Healthcare and Civil Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Updates from HHS Office for Civil Rights and the DOJ
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>>>> From: Pacific ADA Center <do_not_reply at adapacific.org>
>>>> Date: April 15, 2022 at 10:59:55 AM EDT
>>>> To: timothy.miles at triangledac.org
>>>> Subject: ADA National Network Learning Session: Healthcare and Civil Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Updates from HHS Office for Civil Rights and the DOJ
>>>> Reply-To: Pacific ADA Center <do_not_reply at adapacific.org>
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>>>> ADA National Network Webinar Series:
>>>> Health Care and the ADA - Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
>>>> 
>>>> The following is provided by the Pacific ADA Center.
>>>> 
>>>> Introducing a New Webinar:
>>>> ADA National Network Learning Session:
>>>> "Healthcare and Civil Rights During the
>>>> COVID-19 Pandemic:
>>>> Updates from the HHS Office for Civil Rights
>>>> and the Department of Justice" 
>>>> April 28, 2022
>>>> Webinars begin at ET: 2.30pm, CT: 1.30pm, MT:12.30pm, PT:11.30am, Hawaii: 9.30am during mainland Standard Time; 8.30am during mainland Daylight Savings Time.
>>>> 
>>>> Registration: Free on-line at http://adapresentations.org/healthcare/registration.php
>>>> 
>>>> Registration closes at midnight, April 27, 2022.
>>>> 
>>>> All webinars offer captioning. Requests for sign language interpreters must be made the Monday before the webinar to support at adapacific.org.
>>>> 
>>>> For all other accessibility questions about Zoom webinar conferencing software, go to https://zoom.us/accessibility.
>>>> 
>>>> People with disabilities have faced a heavy toll in the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by discrimination in the healthcare system. This webinar will discuss recent guidance and enforcement actions from HHS and DOJ including FAQs for Healthcare Providers during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency; Guidance on "Long COVID" as a Disability Under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557; Disability Access in Vaccine Distribution; and other critical issues. Join us to learn more about the application of civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and other key health policy issues that impact people with disabilities.
>>>> 
>>>> Learning objectives:
>>>> 
>>>> Learn about recent guidance and other developments in healthcare and civil rights from federal enforcement partners at the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.
>>>> Discuss some of the key laws that protect against discrimination on the basis of disability and how they apply during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
>>>> Learn how to submit a complaint to HHS or DOJ if you think your rights have been violated.
>>>> Presenters:
>>>> 
>>>> Molly Burgdorf is currently Section Chief in the Civil Rights Division of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS. She is an advocate, an attorney, and a woman with a disability. Molly has also served as the Senior Director of Rights Policy with The Arc of the United States, the Senior Policy Attorney at the Center for Public Representation, Senior Advisor with the Administration for Community Living and the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities at HHS, among other roles.
>>>> 
>>>> John Wodatch is a disability rights attorney, with over 50 years specializing in the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He served for 42 years in the Federal government, where he authored the government's comprehensive disability rights regulations and created and led the Department of Justice's office in charge of enforcing the ADA. He is now serving as a Senior Disability Policy Advisor at the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services.
>>>> 
>>>> Kathleen Wolfe is a Special Litigation Counsel in the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. A member of the Disability Rights Section's senior management team, Kathleen works with the Division's rulemaking/guidance team as well as its enforcement teams litigating under the ADA and Section 504.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> To view upcoming sessions, go to http://www.adapresentations.org/healthcare/schedule.php
>>>> 
>>>> To see previous sessions, go to http://www.adapresentations.org/healthcare/archive-health.php
>>>> 
>>>> The information presented in this webinar is intended solely as informal guidance and is neither a determination of legal rights or responsibilities by NIDILRR.
>>>> 
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