CROR Outcomes, HCBS Quality Matters, MRSCICS Matters
CROR Outcomes is a quarterly newsletter featuring research updates on our projects at our RRTC on Employment and Disability.
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Bill Aims to Raise the Asset Cap for Supplemental Security Income
This past fall, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced a bill to reform the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.* SSI, managed by the Social Security Administration, provides supplemental income to more than 8 million people who are over the age of 65 or who have disabilities.
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Kara Link: Working to Understand the Connections Between Chronic Pain and Substance Misuse
Link began working with Ehde on a project funded through the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app. The project examines whether telephone-delivered therapy can help people with disabilities, including multiple sclerosis (MS), stay employed.
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Emily Dinelli: Combining Clinical Work and Research to Help People Who Use Prosthetic Devices
Dinelli, 27, is currently taking classes while working part-time at a private Chicago orthotics and prosthetics clinic while also doing research for a CROR study on employment for people with physical disabilities.
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People with Disabilities Continued to Make Employment Gains in 2023
Despite the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates in 2023 to their highest levels in decades, the U.S. labor market has remained remarkably resilient.
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CROR Receives $4.5 Million Grant to Evaluate How Different Inpatient Rehabilitation Lengths of Stay Affect Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries
The Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app was awarded a $4.2 million, five-year grant to explore how different rehabilitation lengths of stay and intensity of rehabilitation affect outcomes and quality of life for people with spinal cord injury in different countries.
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Allen Heinemann. PhD, presents to CARF International on the Rehabilitation Measures Database
On December 11, Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Director Allen Heinemann, PhD, presented on the Rehabilitation Measures Database as part of CARF International's "Standard and a Strength" webinar series.
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Episode 10: The Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we talk with David Chen, MD, the George M. Eisenberg, Chair of spinal cord injury rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app, about the ?Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System?, the National Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Database and cutting-edge research into biomarkers that may predict functional recovery after spinal cord injury.
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