Accessible Healthcare Workshop Webinar
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Learn how to become an empowered, proactive healthcare advocate from a leading attorney on disability rights and healthcare law.
About this Event: Help your healthcare providers help you!
Learn about your legal rights and how to enforce them to become your own patient advocate. This in-service can also explain to healthcare providers and students how to increase accessibility for patients and clients and inform them of their legal rights.
Presenter: Andrés J. Gallegos, Esq., Robbins, Solomon & Patt, Ltd.
There are solutions if you’ve experienced any of the following while seeking healthcare:
• Examined while in your wheelchair
• Exam rooms too small to move around in
• Exam tables or exam chairs are too high and can’t be lowered, or you are told to bring someone to lift you to access medical equipment
• Long waits or refusal of service because of your disability
• Important information is not given to you in an accessible format
• No qualified sign language interpreter at appointments
• No service animals allowed
This workshop is for all people with disabilities, healthcare providers, and Independent Living staff.
ASL Interpreter provided.
About our Presenter: Andrés J. Gallegos was designated as the Chairman of the National Council on Disability by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on the afternoon of his inauguration on January 20, 2021. Andrés concentrates his practice on disability rights and healthcare law. He founded and spearheads the RSP’s disability rights practice, where the firm’s main emphasis is to improve access to healthcare and wellness programs for persons across all types of disabilities, across the country.
