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Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply

Bill of Health

This move to relax masking rules presents significant dangers to those most vulnerable to severe outcomes from COVID-19. Under the ADA, reasonable accommodations allow people with disabilities to enjoy equal opportunities. In other words, under the ADA, employers cannot adopt a policy of blanket denial.

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Providing Clean Air in Indoor Spaces: Moving Beyond Accommodations Towards Barrier Removal

Bill of Health

One of the most persistently frustrating aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as currently applied to schools and workplaces, is its emphasis on the eligibility of qualifying individuals for accommodation, rather than on population-based removal of barriers to participation. The ADA is a floor, not a ceiling.

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Personal Crusades for Public Health

Bill of Health

If masking protocol were guided by public health principles, it would not be presented as a personal choice, or a choice of any kind. A health care setting that has made mask-wearing optional could modify such a policy in settings in which high-risk people are present. The patient’s legal argument is sound.

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Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees

Bill of Health

This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past, even with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Yet when the ADA was originally enacted in 1990, and in 2008, when it was substantially amended, technology had not yet advanced to where it is today.

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A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19?

Bill of Health

Though presented as a return to pre-pandemic business as usual, these conditions impose novel restrictions on faculty. However, neither the ADA nor the Rehabilitation Act require accommodations to have an end date. Classes held in-person before the pandemic would all return to being offered in person.

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Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID

Bill of Health

This article will discuss the importance of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in protecting the rights of people with long COVID and other disabilities in the workplace, in health care, and in disability and other benefits in order to chart an equitable path forward.

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Sutter Health & Ada Integrate to Deliver AI Support for Mental Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sutter Health extends its partnership to global digital health company Ada – creators of the world’s most popular symptom assessment app to integrate digital triage into the mental health service, Scout by Sutter Health ™ to help deliver AI-powered mental health support to young people.

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