A primary care practice group was interested in achieving Distinction in Patient Experience Reporting by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Using the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Patient-Centered Medical Home survey, our team conducted the surveys, analyzed the data, and submitted the results on behalf of the client.

UMass Medical School’s Work Without Limits is a statewide network of engaged employers and innovative, collaborative partners that aims to increase employment among individuals with disabilities. Our goal is for Massachusetts to become the first state in the nation in which the employment rate of individuals with disabilities is equal to that of people without disabilities.

This editorial calls for the American Psychiatric Association and other mental health organizations to oppose solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. The editorial reviews the arguments for supporting solitary confinement, referred to as segregation in U.S. prisons and outlines its negative impacts.

This paper finds that obesity prevalence for children with intellectual disabilities (ID) was 28.9% and 15.5% for children without ID. After adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity and poverty level, the odds ratio was significantly 1.89 times greater among children with ID than among those without ID.

We have been conducting a needs assessment to inform efforts to establish a state-level data collection and surveillance plan for systems of services for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities in response to a Massachusetts Autism Commission report calling for a statewide approach to meet needs. This poster shares identified gaps in services and coverage.

Community Case Management (CCM), a partnership between UMass Medical School and MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid), serves children and adults with highly complex, chronic and challenging medical conditions/disabilities. By creating a single point of entry to receive coordinated services across a wide spectrum of needs, this unique program enables members to stay at home while reducing the burden of care on families. A satisfaction survey was conducted to monitor CCM’s effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.

This brief outlines how Medicaid Section 1115 and ACA Section 1332 waivers work and what states should consider when designing these waivers.

This study documents the prevalence of lifetime and past-year sexual violence against men with disabilities in the U.S., compares these estimates with those of men without disabilities and women with and without disabilities, and examines the gender and relationship of the perpetrator of sexual violence against men with disabilities relative to perpetrator characteristics identified in incidents against other adults.

UMass Medical School researchers have created a framework to better examine the health of women with physical disabilities around the time of their pregnancy. That framework has been described in a paper published in the Disability and Health Journal.

Researchers have found high rates of complications including fetal death, preeclampsia and preterm birth among pregnant women with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Researchers analyzed discharge data from 1,051 hospitals in 45 states in 2010 and found 1,706 women classified by hospital codes as having intellectual and developmental disabilities.