CROR Outcomes, HCBS Quality Matters, MRSCICS Matters
CROR Outcomes is a quarterly newsletter featuring research updates on our projects at our RRTC on Employment and Disability.
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ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ Update: CROR's Rehabilitation and ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ Training Center on HCBS
CROR¡¯s Rehabilitation ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ and Training Center on Home and Community Based-Services (HCBS) is funded by a 5-year, $4,375,000 grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ. The Center is now in its fourth year.
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Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ Director Allen Heinemann, PhD, Appointed to Committee to Advise Social Security Administration on Disability
Allen Heinemann, PhD, Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ at Shirley Ryan ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ, has been appointed to the Standing Committee of Medical and Vocational Experts for the Social Security Administration's Disability Programs.
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NIH Designates People with Disabilities a Health Disparities Population
On September 26, Eliseo J. P¨¦rez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), designated people with disabilities as a ¡®population with health disparities¡¯ for research supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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Rosa Plasencia, Director of the National Core Indicators ¨C Aging & Disabilities (NCI-AD) at ADvancing States
Learn more about Plasencia whose experience with National Core Indicators has helped the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ (CROR) Rehabilitation and ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ Training Center (RRTC) on Home and Community-Based Services with the development of HCBS outcome measures.
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Bill Aims to Raise the Asset Cap for Supplemental Security Income
This past fall, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced a bill to reform the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.* SSI, managed by the Social Security Administration, provides supplemental income to more than 8 million people who are over the age of 65 or who have disabilities.
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Kara Link: Working to Understand the Connections Between Chronic Pain and Substance Misuse
Link began working with Ehde on a project funded through the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ (CROR) at Shirley Ryan ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ. The project examines whether telephone-delivered therapy can help people with disabilities, including multiple sclerosis (MS), stay employed.
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Emily Dinelli: Combining Clinical Work and ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ to Help People Who Use Prosthetic Devices
Dinelli, 27, is currently taking classes while working part-time at a private Chicago orthotics and prosthetics clinic while also doing research for a CROR study on employment for people with physical disabilities.
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