This Friday, June 12, AOTA invites you to participate in the 2nd Annual Virtual Hill Day—a coordinated call and e-mail to legislators on the Hill. This year's efforts target health care reform and AOTA's Home Health Bill. Read more on how to participate and be a part of a coordinated effort to advocate for occupational therapy.
June 12, 2009 is AOTA’s Second Annual Virtual Hill Day
Join colleagues from around the country in advocating for OT! This year the theme for Virtual Hill Day is AOTA’s Home Health bill, the Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act (HR 1094). Health care reform has created a perfect storm of opportunity that has the potential to allow passage of the bill and remove a long standing problem for the profession. We can do this now, but we need YOUR help! Passage of HR 1094 cannot and will not wait another year!
“As a part of the Centennial Vision, we are pushing forward to strengthen occupational therapy’s role in enhancing the well-being and functional status of older adults so they are more likely to remain safely in their homes. Passage of the Medicare Flexibility Act and gaining initiating service status in Medicare home health will go a long way to raise the profile of occupational therapy and would be a great victory for the profession. Due to the current emphasis on the ‘medical home’ as part of the thinking behind healthcare reform, the time for passage of this bill has come and we need everyone’s help to make that happen. If any healthcare service belongs in the home, it is occupational therapy with its emphasis upon performance and participation in context.” --- AOTA President Penny Moyers Cleveland
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Jun 09 2009, 11:03 AM
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