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Federal rule bolsters protections for people with disabilities in health care settings

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that bolsters protections for people with disabilities in health care settings. The rule clarifies several areas, like ensuring medical treatment decisions are not based on negative biases or stereotypes, and requiring accessible medical diagnostic equipment like mammography machines.Jon Meyers is the executive ....

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Direct Support Professionals help people with disabilities. Arizona has so few, it's a crisis

For the roughly 159,000 Arizonans living with an intellectual or developmental disability, having someone to help with things from teeth brushing to job hunting is vital. But Direct Support Professionals DSPs, as they’re known in the industry are struggling.Low wages, high turnover rates and chronic understaffing plague the workforce, leaving both caregivers and those they ....

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Arizona's new law on students with disabilities and what that looks like for private colleges

Arizona's new law on students with disabilities and what that looks like for private colleges
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Disability advocate stresses importance of Hacienda Healthcare case

When an incapacitated woman gave birth at Hacienda Healthcare in 2018, it made international headlines. Earlier this month, the release of Phoenix police bodycam footage brought the case back into the spotlight. But one disability advocate says the case never should’ve lost attention.Jon Meyers is the executive director at the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning ....

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Arizona may pay parents who are caregivers of minor children with disabilities

Medicaid paid parent caregivers of kids with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program may become permanent. ....

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