OCR Resolves Complaint with Utah After it Revised Crisis Standards of Care to Protect Against Age and Disability Discrimination
Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing it has reached an early case resolution with the state of Utah after it revised its crisis standards of care (“CSC”) guidelines to ensure that such criteria do not discriminate against persons on the basis of age and disability. This is OCR’s seventh resolution regardingdiscrimination concerns during COVID-19.