HUGELY IMPORTANT resolution by @HHSgov prohibiting discrimination on the basis of #Disability in #MedicalRationing.
This - with TN - is the 4th such resolution & is the most sweeping and comprehensive.
hhs.gov/about/news/202…
This - with TN - is the 4th such resolution & is the most sweeping and comprehensive.
hhs.gov/about/news/202…
1/ It Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability- or age- related resource-intensity and duration of need, protecting people who need more treatment resources due to their age or disability from automatically being given a lower priority to receive life-saving care;
2/Removes language permitting long-term life expectancy from being used as a factor in the allocation (or re-allocation) of medical resources, instead indicating that providers should consider only imminent mortality;
3/Requires providers to make reasonable modifications to the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, the state's instrument for assessing likelihood of short-term survival, when necessary for accurate use with patients with underlying disabilities.
4/Removes categorical exclusions from care on the basis of diagnosis; and
5/ Protects chronic ventilator users from having their personal ventilators re-allocated when they enter the hospital.
