Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on US Healthcare Systems

This presentation explores the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its profound impact on the healthcare sector. It begins with an introduction to the ADA, highlighting its civil rights foundation and its role in ensuring equality within the workforce for individuals with disabilities. The presentation then delves into the effects of the ADA on healthcare organizations, emphasizing the financial commitments and legal partnerships required to prevent discrimination. It also covers the types of healthcare organizations affected, the penalties associated with non-compliance, and the challenges in regulating human resources within the industry, such as resource availability and awareness gaps. The presentation concludes by summarizing the ADA's role in minimizing social discrimination, the importance of healthcare organizations adhering to its terms, and the key challenges that persist in its implementation. The presentation references several sources to support its findings.

HEALTH CARE AND HUMAN RESOURCES
LEGISLATION PRESENTATION

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA)
INTRODUCTION
• American disability was passed in the year 1990
• The act is included within the civil right acts that
• The human resource management department- abides by
the act to maintain equality in the workforce.
• It helps people with physical challenges to contribute to the
social economy
• The ADA provides civil rights to the people of US
irrespective of their race, sex, ethnic background and type
of physical disability (Adata.org, 2018)

THE IMPACT OF ADA ON HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS
• Healthcare organisations in United
States spend nearly 19% of their
expenditure in caring for the
disabled individual
• The Healthcare organisations have
to form legal partnership with
employability act in order to ensure
there are no forms of
Discrimination for the disabled
person (Adata.org, 2018).

THE IMPACT OF ADA ON HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS
(CONT.…)
• All healthcare organisations across the US have special department
to deal with the issues related to disability
• If any Healthcare organisations refuse to treat the patients of
disability they can be charged legally under the terms of ADA
• Special management in the form of proper resource allocation is
needed for the health care sector for treatment of disabled
individual.
• There is also special provision for the healthcare insurance for the
disabled person as a special part of ADA (Rothstein et al., 2015)

TYPE OF HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS AFFECTED DUE TO ADA
• The ADA has great impact in nearly all types of Healthcare
organisations
• The public healthcare system is mainly affected as the resources
spend in the respective departments are increased
• The Healthcare insurance department is also affected as they
have to prepare special policies for the disabled.
Spechler, 2017

PENALTIES ASSOCIATED WITH NON-COMPLIANCE OF ADA
• The penalty for the non-
compliance of ADA can vary from
$45,000 to $75,000 for the
private and Public Health Care
organisations (Gostin, 2015)
• The penalty for second time
violation can cost up to $110,000
to $150,000.
• These penalties can have
significant impact on the small
scale business.

CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE REGULATION OF THE HUMAN
RESOURCE IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
• Practical applicability of the Act, caused due to
the resource availability.
• The lack of the awareness
• High levels of risks - wastage and misuse of the
resources.
• There are high levels of loopholes in the
implications process
• Private healthcare organizations are not able to
make proper use of the resources.
Francis & Silvers, 2015

CONCLUSION
• The disability act minimizes the social
discrimination
• Healthcare organizations abide by the terms
and conditions of the Act
• High levels of penalty due to the violation of
the act
• The major challenges due to the lack of
awareness and lack of resource availability.

REFERENCES
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? | ADA National
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Francis, L., & Silvers, A. (Eds.). (2015). Americans with disabilities.
Routledge.
Gostin, L. O. (2015). The Americans with Disabilities Act at 25: the
highest expression of American values. Jama, 313(22), 2231-2235.
Rothstein, M. A., Roberts, J., & Guidotti, T. L. (2015). Limiting
occupational medical evaluations under the Americans with
Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination
Act. American journal of law & medicine, 41(4), 523-567.
Spechler, J. (2017). Reasonable accommodation: Profitable compliance
with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Routledge.