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August 20, 2020
Changes Are Needed in the Health Care System to Meet the Needs of Black Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People
Skyler Rosellini and Abigail Coursolle california, Health Equity, SRH Health Equity
Throughout history, Black transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) individuals have nurtured themselves and their communities. Black TGNC individuals have always been at the forefront of the movement for LGBTQ+ liberation and Black civil rights, including William Dorsey Swann and other early organizers of Drag Performances and Balls in the…
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August 19, 2020
Medicaid Beneficiaries Need Better Access to Behavioral Telehealth Services
Abigail Coursolle and Allison Smith Coronavirus
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are receiving behavioral health treatment through telehealth services. While using telehealth technology has made behavioral health services available to more people during the pandemic, low-income people on Medicaid experience more barriers to accessing these services as safely and easily as others.All people…
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August 19, 2020
NHeLP “Friend of the Court” Brief Seeks to Open the Courthouse Doors to Nursing Facility Resident
Jane Perkins Amicus Blogs, Disability
In the late 1980s, an Institute of Medicine study revealed dangerous and demeaning living conditions in nursing facilities across the country. Congress responded by enacting the Nursing Home Reform Act. This law includes specific “residents’ rights” provisions, such as the right of each resident to be free from chemical…
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August 13, 2020
More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19
David Machledt Coronavirus, Health Equity
In early July, the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern part of Oklahoma remains Indian Country for the purposes of federal criminal law. Oklahoma argued that decades of federal and state incursions and violations of an 1833 treaty with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation effectively dissolved the tribe’s reservation. Five…
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August 11, 2020
The Maintenance of Effort Provision Protects Services
Hannah Eichner, Sarah Grusin, Jennifer Lav, and David Machledt Fact Sheet
The Families First maintence of effort provision not only prohibits states from disenrolling individuals, but it ensures that services available to enrollees at the start of the pandemic remain available to them as long as the state is receiving the enhanced match. At a time when many doctors’ offices…
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August 11, 2020
The Effects of COVID-19 on America’s Hispanic and Latinx Communities
Miriam Delaney Heard california, Coronavirus, Health Equity, Immigrant Health
"Face challenges, fear, and frustration by seeking out knowledge and opportunities for growth."--Fanny MairenaCOVID-19 has plunged numerous nations into a public health emergency. To date, in the United States alone, there have been more than four million confirmed COVID -19 cases and more than 150,000 deaths have been attributed…
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Changes Are Needed in the Health Care System to Meet the Needs of Black Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People

Medicaid Beneficiaries Need Better Access to Behavioral Telehealth Services

NHeLP “Friend of the Court” Brief Seeks to Open the Courthouse Doors to Nursing Facility Resident

More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19

The Maintenance of Effort Provision Protects Services

Posts tagged with ‘National Health Law Program’

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Changes Are Needed in the Health Care System to Meet the Needs of Black Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People

Medicaid Beneficiaries Need Better Access to Behavioral Telehealth Services

NHeLP “Friend of the Court” Brief Seeks to Open the Courthouse Doors to Nursing Facility Resident

More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19

The Maintenance of Effort Provision Protects Services

The Effects of COVID-19 on America’s Hispanic and Latinx Communities