Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing it has worked collaboratively with the State of North Carolina, the North Texas Mass Critical Care Guidelines Task Force, the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, and the Indian Health Service to revise each entity’s crisis standards of care ( CSC ) guidelines to reflect best practices for serving individuals with disabilities and the elderly. This builds on OCR s prior work regarding discrimination concerns during COVID-19. OCR enforces a number of federal antidiscrimination laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and conscience and religious freedom laws.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces its fourteenth settlement of an enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.
AUGUSTA -Today, Governor Mills proposed a supplemental budget for Fiscal Year 2021 and a biennial budget for Fiscal Years 2022-2023 that protect the health and wellbeing of Maine people by investing in Maine s COVID-19 response, continuing to rebuild public health infrastructure, and preserving life-saving health care and safety net services.