Guide for optimizing healthcare visits with hearing loss
By Nancy J. Rennert, MD and Carolyn Stern, MBA Life this past year has certainly been different – and healthcare is different, too. With the Covid- 19 pandemic, our lives changed. Access to health care was restricted and people with hearing loss faced additional communication barriers due to the use of face masks and policies limiting in-person interpreters. With vaccines and declining infection rates, recommendations recently changed to allow certain groups of people to go w