Long-Term Care

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Moving Home: A Resource Guide for Leaving a Nursing Facility and Successfully Returning to Living Independently in the Community

This resource guide has been developed to assist Maryland residents of a nursing home to have a successful return to living in the community. The guide includes information on many services including: peer counseling, housing, and money management.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/49700

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Nursing Home Transition Programs-Conference Call

This teleconference is focused on nursing home transition issues for grantees of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Real Choice Systems Change Grant program. The conference discussed the CMS’ recently released State Medicaid Directors letter allowing home and community-based services waivers to cover nursing home relocation transition costs and the results of case studies conducted by MedStat of state nursing home transition programs.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/49699

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Options for Combining Medicaid LTC Funding and Expanding the Scope of LTC Services Teleconference

This purpose of this teleconference was to discuss options for combining Medicaid long term care funding and expanding the scope of long term care services. The call was organized in response to a need identified by a grantee and included states that were available and had relevant experience with the questions being raised.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/49692

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Direct Care Worker Associations and Public Authorities

This issue brief provides a snapshot of associations and public authorities. The intent of this document is to identify and describe existing approaches to addressing long-term care workforce issues, not to endorse or evaluate the different models. Website links are provided for those interested in obtaining more information about the efforts described in this document.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/49686

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Summaries of the Systems Change Grants for Community Living- FY 2002 Grantees

The Formative Evaluation of the Real Choice Systems Change Grants evaluates how the Systems Change grantees are progressing towards meeting their goals. The Formative Evaluation identifies problems faced by the grantees and ways that they deal with the problems. This document provides summary information about each of the FY2002 Grantees.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/49676

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Home and Community-Based Services in Seven States

This report details a CMS-funded study conducted in Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin, Maryland, Michigan and Kentucky to assess the major features if the home and community-based services systems for older people and younger adults with physical disabilities in each State. The role that Medicaid plays in home and community-based services is a major focus of the study.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/49613

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Promising Practices in HCBS: Florida- Providing Managed Care Organizations with Financial Incentives to Expand Community Care and Limit Nursing Home Care

This report briefly describes a managed long-term care pilot project the State of Florida has initiated to test a Medicaid managed care program that includes incentives for coordinating acute and long-term care and for using less expensive, community-based alternatives to nursing homes for people age 65 or older with disabilities. This report includes background information and descriptions of the intervention, implementation, and impact.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/49612

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