Accommodations in Healthcare: Mitigating airborne pathogens
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When there are systematic failures in ensuring safe healthcare environments, people should feel more empowered to advocate and make demands for their care and safety. Policies and infrastructure that lower airborne pathogen exposure risks and increase mitigation layers will help make medical appointments more accessible to higher-risk and under-resourced people, especially during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
This 20-page document is a resource offering for navigating ADA accommodations in U.S. healthcare settings. It was collaboratively reviewed by and edited based on feedback from community members with mixed lived and professional experience with chronic illness and patient advocacy in healthcare.
contents:
Overview of federal laws protecting disabled patients’ rights to make accommodation requests
Step by step process and suggestions for making and escalating requests
Reflection questions
Examples and templates for written and verbal scripts
Legal and patient advocacy resources
