The United Spinal Association and the National Spinal Cord Injury Association have issued a guide on healthcare and insurance reforms that explains how they improve the lives of people with disabilities. The Impact of Health Care Reform on People with Disabilities has information about insurance market reforms; mandatory health plan coverage provisions; home- and community-based services; Medicare outpatient therapy caps and Medicaid eligibility requirements; and the new standards that ensure medical equipment in doctors’ offices and other medical facilities are accessible. 

For more information visit this link:  http://www.disability.gov/health/laws_%26_regulations.

The University of Missouri Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science will host the dedication of the MU Brain Imaging Center, a large scale, state-of-the-art neuroimaging research facility.

MRI technology in the MU Brain Imaging Center enables researchers to collect behavioral data by producing pictures of the entire body, including the brain. The technology also can capture certain functions, such as brain activity during a mental task and body metabolism.

MU is one of the few academic institutions to have this technology available on campus and accessible to all departments and local industries. MU researchers will use the center to conduct behavioral studies on diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, autism and schizophrenia

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Massachusetts Hospitals Improve Quality of Life Services for People with Disabilities

Hospital administrators and advocates at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have reached an agreement to invest millions of dollars in improving services for people with disabilities and training for their employees. Improvements, such as a scale for weighing people in wheelchairs and accessible exam tables and X-ray machines, will be added. In other cities improvements such as these have been requested through lawsuits. These two hospitals are leaders in the medical field and therefore hope to bring forth change in other institutions as well.

Full Story:
Michelle Diament, Hospitals to Improve Care for People with Disabilities, June 29, 2009, available at
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2009/06/29/hospital-accessibility/3889/

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