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DESCRIPTION:Laura Guidry-Grimes\, PhD\, HEC-C. Moderated by Jonas-Sébastien
  Beaudry\n\nOn Zoom\n\nDuring a public health crisis\, healthcare institut
 ions may have to adapt resources (staff\, space\, and supplies) and adjust
  the standard of care. When the crisis permits\, institutions first adopt 
 contingency standards of care\, which the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM)
  describes as “functionally equivalent” care. If the crisis worsens such t
 hat resource shortages and patient morbidity/mortality increase\, then the
  institutions have to shift to crisis standards of care. The COVID-19 pand
 emic led to prolonged contingency standards in hospitals and clinics throu
 ghout the world (which led to care that was often far from “functionally e
 quivalent”)\, and crisis standards were quickly planned in case necessary.
  Along the way\, even when institutions did not implement formal triage\, 
 many areas reported “informal triage\,” where emergency departments and fi
 rst responders did not accept patients who would normally have been admitt
 ed to the hospital. Historically marginalized and underserved groups have 
 been disproportionately impacted by the formal and informal decisions of t
 hose in positions of power.\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic highlights the many l
 ayers of vulnerability that persons with physical\, intellectual\, and psy
 chiatric disabilities can have in a public health crisis. These vulnerabil
 ities are the result of many factors\, including entrenched and systemic d
 isability bias in healthcare\, congregate care facilities without proper f
 unding or support\, and the routine exclusion of disabled persons in decis
 ion-making that directly affects their well-being.\n\nIn this talk\, Dr. G
 uidry-Grimes will discuss the theoretical foundations of disability rights
  during a public health crisis. She will approach this topic as a U.S.-bas
 ed clinical ethicist and philosopher with a specialization in disability b
 ioethics. She will analyze justice in terms of distribution and recognitio
 n\, building on the work of Nancy Fraser and disability studies scholars. 
 She will connect conceptual points about justice with the four elements of
  the IOM vision statement for public health crises\, which emphasizes fair
 ness\; equitable processes\; community and provider engagement\, education
 \, and communication\; and the rule of law. Her analysis will cover both c
 risis standards of care and contingency standards of care\, the latter of 
 which did not receive sufficient normative analysis before the onset of th
 e COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nLaura Guidry-Grimes\, Ph.D.\,
  is an Assistant Professor. Dr. Guidry-Grimes received her doctorate in ph
 ilosophy at Georgetown University. She worked from 2015-2017 as a clinical
  ethicist in the MedStar health system in Washington\, D.C. and since 2017
  has been working in clinical ethics consultation services at UAMS and Ark
 ansas Children’s Hospital.  Dr. Guidry-Grimes is also interested in disabi
 lity advocacy\, ethics of psychiatry\, and determining how best to underst
 and vulnerability in health care.  Read more about Dr. Guidry-Grimes.\n\nQ
 uestions may be directed to jonas-sebastien.beaudry [at] mcgill.ca.\n\nWe 
 hope to see you there! \n
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LOCATION:Zoom.
SUMMARY:Protecting Disability Rights in a Pandemic
URL:/law/channels/event/protecting-disability-rights-p
 andemic-337040
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