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Webinar: Safe Visitation Through Boosters

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The Administration for Community Living (ACL) and The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care are co-hosting a webinar on COVID-19 boosters to support safe visitation and promote family connections for long-term care residents on Friday, February 4, 2022 at 3:30 PM ET/2:30 PM CT/12:30 PM PT.

The webinar will explore the important role families play in residents’ decisions to get boosters and how families can help their loved ones get fully protected. It also will discuss strategies for ACL’s networks to effectively engage families on the importance of boosters. Speakers from CMS and the White House COVID-19 Response Team also will share the latest information on boosters. Join to get your questions answered.

Speakers include:

  • Alison Barkoff, Principal Deputy Administrator, Administration for Community Living
  • Lori Smetanka, Executive Director, National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care
  • Dr. Cameron Webb, Senior Policy Advisor for Equity on the White House COVID-19 Team
  • Evan Shulman, Director, Division of Nursing Homes, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  • Mark Miller, President, National Association of State LTC Ombudsman Programs

American Sign Language and CART will be provided. Please contact Marcia Gordon at marcia.gordon@acl.hhs.gov by Wednesday, Feb. 2 if you need any other accommodations to participate.

Register for the zoom webinar to tune in.

The Sibling Leadership Network is committed to provide siblings of individuals with disabilities the information, support, and tools to advocate with their brothers and sisters and to promote the issues important to them and their entire families. For more information, resources and news about COVID-19 for people with disabilities and their families, check out our COVID-19 Resources Center webpage.

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