In this Policy Round-Up, you’ll find:
COVID-19 Updates:
New CDC Recommendations: COVID-19 Community Levels
Department of Education: What CDC’s new guidance means for schools and students with disabilities Updated list: People at highest risk from COVID-19
CDC’s updated guidance on intervals…
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March 10, 2022 | Vicki Gottlich, Deputy Administrator for Policy and Evaluation
February 15, 2022 | Vicki Gottlich, Deputy Administrator for Policy and Evaluation
In this issue:
COVID-19 Updates:
New vaccination guidance for people who are immunocompromised
ICYMI: HHS guidance for health care providers on civil rights protections for people with disabilities
ACL Fact Sheet: Insurance coverage for at-home COVID-19 tests
Coming soon:…
January 31, 2022 |
Our first Policy Roundup for 2022 includes:
COVID-19 updates:
EEOC: When COVID-19 may be considered a disability
DOJ: COVID-19 and the ADA
Input needed:
CMS: Coverage of monoclonal antibodies in Alzheimer’s research (due 4/11)
CMS proposed rule change: Medicare Advantage and prescription drug…
December 27, 2021 | Scott Cory, Chief Information Officer, ACL
As we move through the holiday season, new challenges that people and organizations face include the heightened risk and probability of “bad actors”–people with criminal intention, organized crime groups, and state-sponsored groups–seeking to compromise people and organizations’ mobile phones,…
December 23, 2021 | Beverley Laubert, National Ombudsman Program Coordinator, ACL
In the midst of the holiday season, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) delivered good news for residents of nursing homes across the country: Visitation is now allowed for all residents at all times.
Living in a long-term care facility, whether for short-term or long-term care,…
December 15, 2021 |
Public Comment on Organ Transplantation
On December 3, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Request For Information (RFI) soliciting feedback to inform potential changes to transplant requirements. The RFI identified transplant programs, organ…
December 3, 2021 |
A guest blog by Jackie Blaesi-Freed
Blaesi-Freed is an Assistant Director in the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch. Today, the Department of Justice, FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and five other federal law enforcement agencies announced the completion of the fourth…
November 30, 2021 | Alison Barkoff, Former Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging
It’s fitting that National Family Caregivers Month is celebrated at the same time as Thanksgiving. Last week, we paused as a nation to gather with our families and to give thanks for the good things in our lives. What better time could there be to recognize and honor the 53 million people who…
November 10, 2021 | by Keri Lipperini, Director of the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs (and former Navy Hospital Corpsman)
Veterans Day, November 11, is dedicated to honoring American veterans. About 19 million Americans – seven percent of the population - have served in the military. I am proud to stand as one of them. Because I’m a petite woman – and only about 1 in 10 veterans are women – people are often…
November 3, 2021 | Guest blog by James Tucker, Esq. and Lisa Mills, PhD
Like most states, the backbone of Alabama is countless individual women and men who wake up and go to work on most days. Yet, like many other states, too few Alabamians with disabilities have this same opportunity to work and earn a living making a meaningful contribution to the economy.
Even as we…