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The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) protects your rights against discrimination and ensures that your health information is private, secure, and accessible.
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Joined September 2014
Today, OCR reminded West Virginia of the laws respecting conscience and religious freedom in health and human services, including laws that require states to recognize their own religious exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws.
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Today, OCR announced a settlement under the HIPAA Security Rule with a consulting firm, which marks OCR’s 15th ransomware enforcement action and its 10th enforcement action in OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative.
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HHS OCR and BST & Co. CPAs, LLP reached a settlement to address potential violations of the HIPAA Security Rule.
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OCR released new & updated HIPAA Privacy Rule FAQs supporting @CMSGov’s Health Technology Ecosystem. The FAQs address disclosure of PHI to value-based care arrangements for treatment purposes and the scope of the designated record set.
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HIPAA FAQs for Professionals
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ICYMI: Watch HHS celebrate the ADA’s 35th anniversary! OCR Director Paula M. Stannard shares OCR’s disability rights accomplishments, and @SecKennedy reflects on his commitment to the inherent dignity and worth of every person.
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HHS commemorates the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a landmark civil rights law signed by the President on July 26, 1990.
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OCR is relentlessly focused on protecting the civil, conscience, and religious freedom rights of all Americans. via @dcexaminer.
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Americans should not have to choose between their livelihoods on the one hand and their conscience, religious beliefs, and medical freedom on the other.
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Today, OCR referred Harvard’s noncompliance with Title VI to @TheJusticeDept for enforcement. Harvard has failed to demonstrate to HHS that it will end its deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish and Israeli students by other students and faculty.
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Today, HHS and ED announced a joint letter to Duke University notifying it of serious allegations of race-based discrimination permeating Duke University Health System’s operations and presenting the University with a pathway for civil rights compliance.
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HHS demanded that Duke University cooperate with the Federal government to investigate and address serious allegations of systemic racial discrimination.
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Click the link below today between 10:00AM-12:00PM to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act with Health and Human Services!.
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Watch the live stream here.
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Today, OCR announced a settlement with Syracuse ASC, an ambulatory surgery center, to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules, concerning a ransomware breach that affected 24,891 individuals.
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HIPAA settlement marks OCR’s 14th ransomware enforcement action
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Today, HHS OCR issued a limited waiver of HIPAA sanctions and penalties as a result of @SecKennedy declaring a public health emergency for Texas in response to the consequences of severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding.
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Limited Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions and Penalties During a Declared Emergency: 2025 Public Health Emergency for Texas in Response to Consequences of Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding
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RT @SecKennedy: Today, I declared a Public Health Emergency for the State of Texas to ensure immediate access to critical health care resou….
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Today, OCR announced a settlement with a behavioral health provider to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.
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OCR and Deer Oaks Behavioral Health Solution reach a settlement to resolve potential HIPAA violations.
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Today, OCR announced that Harvard University violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by acting with deliberate indifference toward harassment of Jewish and Israeli students by other students and faculty.
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HHS Office for Civil Rights announced Harvard University violated Title VI by showing deliberate indifference towards harassment of Jewish and Israeli students.
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Today, OCR announced an investigation of the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League under Title IX for allowing male athletes to compete on sports teams reserved for females.
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OCR Investigates Minnesota for Allowing Males to Compete in Sports Reserved for Females.
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Today’s, OCR’s Director reflects on OCR’s Olmstead Initiative and disability rights legacy in her blog post that celebrates the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision and underscores @SecKennedy’s leadership.
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OCR’s Olmstead activities strengthen protection of Federal rights of people with disabilities to live in their communities.
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OCR announced a resolution agreement with North Carolina to support integration of persons with disabilities into community life. Under @SecKennedy’s leadership, HHS supports individuals with disabilities in leading healthy and productive lives.
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Resolution Marks the 6th Voluntary Resolution in OCR’s Olmstead Initiative to Support Integration of Persons with Disabilities into Community Life.
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Today, OCR announced an investigation into a Midwest health system to determine the entity’s compliance with federal laws that safeguard health care professionals’ exercise of conscience rights in health care.
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HHS launched an investigation of a major health system in Michigan
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HHS announces Paula M. Stannard as Director of the Office for Civil Rights to promote and enforce the civil rights, conscience, religious freedom, and HIPAA authorities in HHS’ s jurisdiction.
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HHS announces the appointment of Paula M. Stannard as Director of the Office for Civil Rights
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RT @SecKennedy: What we have now is a sick-care system that’s a bundle of perverse incentives. Our job is to disrupt that system and democr….
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