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We're thrilled to see DeafHealth spearheading this vital project to make virtual healthcare truly accessible for our Deaf community. A huge step forward in ensuring Deaf patients are heard and valued! 🙌 #HealthcareAccessibility #Equity #Telehealth #PCORI

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DeafHealth’s project has been awarded $250,000 through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up telehealth usage in healthcare, but best practices for the Deaf community are still unknown. Deaf individuals who use American Sign Language face communication and health literacy challenges, making virtual healthcare potentially inaccessible. The two-year project, “Building Capacity for Deaf American Sign Language Users in Virtual Healthcare PCOR/CER” will form a national Deaf Patient Coalition. This coalition will gather diverse Deaf patient experiences with virtual healthcare to help shape future patient-centered outcomes research and comparative clinical effectiveness research focused on healthcare virtual platforms for the Deaf community. By collaborating with academic institutions, researchers, and patient communities, this groundbreaking project aims to advance equitable care and decision-making among Deaf patients. The project is led by Allysa Dittmar, MHS, Vice President at DeafHealth, the health and patient advocacy division of Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD). Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), under the leadership of Dr. Tiffany Panko, executive director of the Deaf Health Care and Biomedical Science Hub and director of the Deaf Health Laboratory at RIT National Technical Institute for the Deaf will support the project. Read full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gE7sxhk7. #DeafHealth #Telehealth #PCORI

Thomas Means

Chief Financial Officer at CSD, Inc.

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Exciting times!

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