HHS Office for Civil Rights Works with Hospital to Improve Access to Kosher Electronic Devices Used for Virtual Patient Visitation
Published: 03/05/2024
Sources:
- Department of Health and Human Services
Relevant To:
- All Healthcare Organizations
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), recently finalized its work with New York-Presbyterian Hospital to ensure virtual visitation is accessible to Jewish patients.
OCR received complaints that Jewish patients and their loved ones were not accommodated with kosher electronic devices for virtual visits at New York-Presbyterian, a major New York healthcare system with hospitals in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Westchester. Federal law prohibi…
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