Excerpt from: Media dis&dat (click for full article)
Bailey House, which has served low-income homeless and unstably
housed men, women and families living with and affected by HIV/AIDS since 1983
and The Center for Independence of the
Disabled, NY (CIDNY), a leading advocate for people with disabilities that
has worked for over 30 years to remove
physical and social barriers and to ensure that people with disabilities have
the tools they need to live independently, provide for financial needs, and
enjoy equal opportunities, announce a strategic alliance to improve the
health outcomes of low-income men and women living with all types of
disabilities – physical, sensory, cognitive, developmental and psychiatric.
The
two agencies are launching this initiative, Health Matters - which combines
their expertise in housing, case management, health coverage navigation,
entitlement advocacy and legal advocacy - to end barriers to care for affected
New Yorkers with disabilities.
Goals of the alliance include
ending barriers to health care for disabled New Yorkers who are often forced to
use costly emergency and acute care because they are unable to easily access
primary care or mental health services in their communities. Three key factors
that increase emergency department care by adults with disabilities include
lack of access to care and prescription medications, the complexity of
individuals’ health profiles, and disability status itself.
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