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Allison Yager has been named the executive director of the Miami-based Florida Health Justice Project, replacing Miriam Harmatz, who is stepping down as executive director but will remain active with the organization.
The change was effective March 1. Harmatz founded the organization in 2017.
“Alison brings extraordinary expertise and vision to FHJP’s intersecting work in poverty health law and public health,” said Harmatz. “She will be a fantastic leader, and I’m excited that I will remain a member of the FHJP team as we continue responding to Florida’s tremendous health justice challenges.”
“We confront twin health and economic crises while struggling against structural racism that has taken its toll, in part, as persistent and widespread health disparities,” Yager said. “FHJP has proven its ability to make change even in the face of the most hostile of conditions. Together, with our hugely talented team and the support of our board, I am thrilled to help mov
COMMENTARY | A little over one year ago, and just weeks before COVID-19 gripped worldwide attention, two Florida state agencies agreed to a remarkable, consequential but barely noticed settlement to a class-action lawsuit that had accused them of illegally kicking eligible people off the state’s Medicaid coverage.
That settlement, enforced by a Jacksonville-based federal judge, included a requirement that the Florida Department of Children and Families and Florida Agency for Health Care Administration go back and review more than 71,000 cases across the state in which the agencies booted people, some of whom have severe disabilities or illness, out of their health care coverage without adequate notice or without a proper eligibility review conducted by state officials.