Legislation expands Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Credentialing & Verification Update, October 7, 2008
President Bush signed legislation last week expanding protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA now recognizes any condition that limits a major life activity as a disability, regardless of whether an individual could compensate with medications, medical devices, or prosthetics, among other things.
These activities inlcude: Caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.
According to the Med Law Blog written by healthcare attorney Michael Cassidy, Esq. of Tucker Arensberg, P.C. in Pittsburg, PA, employers should update their ADA policies (in employee handbooks, for example), and also "be prepared to engage in the interactive process, and make reasonable accommodations, to a broader range of employees or face potential ADA liability".
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