The Suffolk County Department of Health Services’ Patient Protection Oversight Committee will be discussing The Consumer Assistance Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled (ABD).
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Michelle Bates, Program Coordinator for the ABD, will discuss the ABD program, which opened in October 2015 to provide education, outreach and enrollment assistance into government-sponsored health insurance programs to those who are certified blind, certified disabled or 65 years of age or older.
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Lauren Barlow, MS, RD, PHN III, specialist in epidemiology with the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, will present “CDC-Zika 101” and will provide the latest information on the prevention, transmission, and symptoms of Zika virus.
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Overview of general activity of the Patient Advocacy Unit