Recent Stories about Health Professionals with Disabilities

• PAC Mate Enables Blind Medical Student to Achieve her Ultimate Goal
  PORTLAND, OREGON - In a few months, the newest doctor – and one of the first doctors of her kind in the nation – will hang her shingle in the Portland, Oregon area. Chris L. Cooke will become one of the first totally blind doctors in the US with a specialty in naturopathic medicine.
• Labor & Delivery Nurse
  Feature article about a Labor & Delivery Nurse Leora Heifetz who has a visual disability.
• Geriatric Nurse, Senior Day Health Program
  Feature article about a Geriatric Nurse and her experiences as a nurse with vision loss during her 10 years as Director of Medical Services (think Head Nurse) at a community-based, free-standing, day program for the "less-than-independent" elderly.

Recent Stories about Employment for Persons with Disabilities

• New EEOC Publication Addresses Employment of Health Care Workers with Disabilities
  WASHINGTON - Naomi C. Earp, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced the issuance of a new question-and-answer (Q&A) fact sheet on the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to job applicants and employees in the health care industry. The new publication, part of a series of Q&A documents about specific disabilities in the workplace and specific industries, is available on the EEOC's website at http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/health_care_workers.html.

• Americans with Disabilities: Ready for the Global Workforce
  Washington, DC - "Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao this week announced that "Americans with Disabilities: Ready for the Global Workforce" will be the official theme for October's National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which is celebrated nationwide."

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