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Subject: Telehealth Opportunities
- From: "Ed Dodds" <dodds@e-dodds.com>
- To: "ihc@Lists. Oasis-Open. Org \(E-mail\)" <ihc@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:12:50 -0500
A New Release from the United States Department of
Health & Human Services, www.hhs.gov:
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004
Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services Media Affairs
(202) 690-6145
HHS Awards $31 Million in Grants to 31 States to
Help Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced $31
million
in grants to 31 states to help people with disabilities or
long-term illnesses live in their homes and participate
fully in
community life.
"People with disabilities want access to
high-quality
services in the community they call home. These grants will
help give them the independence to live at home and
contribute to their
communities," Secretary Thompson said.
The grants are a part of President Bush's "New
Freedom
Initiative," which promotes the goal of community living
for
individuals with disabilities and long-term illnesses.
Under this
initiative, which began in 2001, 10 federal
agencies work with states and
community organizations to
remove barriers to community living.
"We are committed to removing the barriers
preventing the
54 million Americans living with disabilities from leading
full lives. These grants will help those living with
disabilities make
their own choices on what services they
get, who provides those services and
how and where to
live," said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Administrator Mark B. McClellan.
The grants awarded today help states and other
eligible
entities improve their home and community-based services
programs. A total of 52 grants were awarded in nine
categories:
1. Quality assurance: Approximately $4.3 million to
nine
states (VT, NJ, NE, AR, AZ, FL, NH, MA, AK) to support
quality
assurance and quality improvement in home-and
community-based services. The
programs identify key quality
indicators through input from consumers,
family and other
stakeholders.
2. Integrating housing needs with other support
systems:
Approximately $6.7 million to eight states (NH, OR, PA, NC,
DC,
MS, VT, AR) to help coordinate housing with other long-
term support needs.
Housing models include foster group
homes, affordable assisted living,
supportive public
housing, homeownership assistance, and community-based
apartments.
3. Screening, assessment and transition from
children's
services to adult services: A total of $1 million to
Nebraska
and the District of Columbia to support innovative
practices in home- and
community-based services for people
transferring from children's services to
adult services.
4. Reform of long-term support systems: A total of
$7.6
million to support Wisconsin and Vermont's efforts to
further
reform their long-term support systems. Wisconsin's
wide-ranging reform
includes planning grants to support
local partnerships, "virtual resource
centers" to provide
information to individuals, and a multi-media campaign
on
financial planning. Vermont plans to integrate the
financing and
delivery of acute and long-term care services
for older individuals and
individuals with physical
disabilities.
5. Mental health systems reform: Approximately $3.3
million
to 11 states (MA, NH, OR, MN, OK, NC, ME, VA, DE, PA, OH)
to
support consumer-directed, evidence-based practices such
as illness
management and recovery, assertive community
treatment, and peer support
programs.
6. Rebalancing initiative: Approximately $2 million
to
seven states (IL, LA, ND, NC, MS, VA, TN) to help states
prevent and
correct inappropriate placement of individuals
in institutions.
Interventions include: development of
single points of entry for individuals
who are at risk of
institutionalization, a coordinated transportation
system,
and comprehensive client assessment instruments and
procedures.
7. Living with Independence, Freedom, and Equality
(LIFE)
account feasibility and demonstration: Approximately
$200,000 to
Wisconsin and New Hampshire to study the
feasibility of establishing a
savings program for children
and adults that would enable them to control
their own
Medicaid-funded community-based services.
8. Family-to-family health care information and
education
centers: Approximately $1.5 million to private, not-for-
profit
entities in 10 states (NY, AZ, NC, MA, UT, WV, LA,
KY, NM, ND) to develop
and implement an information and
referral network for parents of children
with special
health care needs.
9. National State-to-State Technical Assistance
Program for
Community Living: Approximately $4 million to the
Independent Living Research Utilization program in Texas to
continue a
program of individualized technical assistance
to all grantees as well as
resource development and
information dissemination to benefit all grantees
under the
New Freedom Initiative.
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