WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky recently reached an agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with DaVita, Inc., which operates dialysis treatment centers throughout the United States, to resolve a complaint brought on behalf of a patient who is deaf and uses American Sign Language (ASL) as his primary means of communication.
The complaint alleged that during multiple years of dialysis treatments at a DaVita dialysis treatment center in Lexington, Kentucky, staff failed to provide the patient with an ASL interpreter, which was necessary for him to co...