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Disability Rights Florida joins 161 organizations calling for the rescission of the Interim Final Rule “Temporary FMAP Increase During the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19"

Friday, April 09, 2021

Disability Rights Florida (DRF) joined 161 other organizations serving individuals with disabilities to ask the Centers for Medicaid and CHIP Services and the Centers for Medicare…

Disability Rights Florida Calls Upon the Governor to Stop Deadly Discrimination Against People with Disabilities Amid COVID-19 Care Before it Starts

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tallahassee, FL – With a sense of extreme urgency, Disability Rights Florida sent Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Executive Office of the Governor…

Why are some Florida medical offices denying American Sign Language interpreters for patients who are deaf?

Wednesday, May 08, 2019

All too often, Disability Rights Florida is involved in individual complaints related to medical offices refusing to provide interpreters for patients who are deaf. The Americans…