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From All MedStar Health locations across the region have now changed their policy to allow a support person for patients with disabilities. Molly Riley, File/AP Photo
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MedStar Health is now allowing visitors and support persons for patients with disabilities into its hospitals and ambulatory locations throughout the region following a federal disabilities discrimination complaint.
Due to the pandemic, MedStar Washington Hospital staff was allegedly not allowing visitors or support persons for patients with disabilities, despite a stated policy that people with disabilities could bring in one support person. In September, William King, a 73-year-old with communication-related disabilities, his family, and Disability Rights DC attorneys filed a disabilities discrimination complaint against the health system with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Righ