Featured Stories THREE OSCAR NOMINATED FILMS IN FEBRUARY
This month, leading up to the Oscars on Sunday, February 26, CIDNY will be viewing three Academy Award nominated films. This first is “Moneyball” which received six nominations including four biggies: best picture, lead actor, supporting actor and adapted screenplay, as well as film editing and sound mixing. The second is “Kung Fu Panda 2”, which was nominated for best animated feature film. The third in our series will be “The Help”, which received four nominations including best picture, lead actress, and two supporting actress nominations. See our February calendar for full details. The Oscar fun doesn’t end there. If you join us for any of the movies you have a chance to win a $20 gift card to Lowes Theaters. All you to have to do is give us your best guesses for who will take home Oscars. If you guess the most winners, you WIN the gift card. CIDNY’S WORK ON HEALTH DISPARITIES TO PAY OFF Last year CIDNY’s Executive Director, Susan Dooha, served on the Medicaid Redesign Team’s Health Disparities Workgroup which made14 recommendations to address health disparities. Her work paid off when these proposals were included in the Governor’s Budget. The Executive Budget includes $ 1 m. to implement and expand on the data collection standards required by the Affordable Care Act by requiring detailed reporting health disparities based on race and ethnicity, gender identity, the six disability questions used in the American Community Survey, and housing status. This funding will support data analyses and research to promote programs and policies that will better identify, understand, and address disparities. The Budget amends Medicaid rates for hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centers, and health centers to provide reimbursement for the costs of interpretation services for patients with limited English proficiency and communication services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Budget also require a prescriber to indicate the primary language of someone who is limited English proficient on the prescription form and require pharmacists to provide for translation or other language services if they have reason to know that the person is limited English proficient. Current Issue: February 2012 2012 |
