Disabled Allowed Support Visitors in Connecticut Hospitals (1)

Connecticut will allow disabled people in short-term hospitals, outpatient clinics, and outpatient surgical facilities to have support visitors, resolving a complaint before the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services.

State officials had previously issued an executive order barring any visitors in those facilities due to the Covid-19 pandemic—a move that drew complaints from disability rights advocates.

OCR officials announced the resolution Tuesday, which put an end to a complaint filed in May by Disability Rights Connecticut, CommunicationFIRST, the Arc of Connecticut, Independence Northwest: Center for Independent Living of Northwest CT, the Center for Public ...