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Henry Schein and the National Council on Disability Ally to Improve Access to Care for Americans With Disabilities
Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Help Deliver Health Equity for All MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) today announced
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nSign Memorandum of Understanding to Help Deliver Health Equity for All\n\n MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nHenry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Council on Disability (NCD) to seek improved access to care for Americans with disabilities in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The MOU was signed on December 3, 2019, at the Greater New York Dental Meeting, located at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191204005669/en/Left to right: Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein, Inc.; Dr. Lauro Medrano, General Chairman of the Greater New York Dental Meeting; and Neil Romano, Chairman of the National Council on Disability. (Photo: Business Wire)\n\nThe MOU between Henry Schein Cares, the company’s global corporate social responsibility program, and NCD will focus on advancing key building blocks for expanding dental and medical care for people with disabilities, including improving oral health literacy and provider cultural competency for treating patients with disabilities, expanding development and utilization of products and equipment for patients with disabilities, assisting Americans with disabilities to access care, and advocating for appropriate financing and reimbursement rates.\n\n\n“Expanding access to care for vulnerable populations is one of the pillars of Henry Schein Cares and aligns with the Company’s efforts to advocate for increased oral health care for people with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities,” said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein. “We are pleased to partner with NCD to advance health equity for long-disadvantaged individuals. It is clear that the gaps in access to care are wide, and we hope that this partnership will be a powerful catalyst towards helping to create a more inclusive health care ecosystem.”\n\n\nFirst established as an advisory council within the Department of Education in 1978, NCD became an independent federal agency in 1984. In 1986, NCD recommended enactment of an Americans with Disabilities Act, and drafted the first version of the bill which ...