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Quality Indicators For Home And Community-Based Services In Maine [Report], Julie T. Fralich Mba, Carolyn E. Gray Mph, Louise Olsen, Jasper Ziller

Disability & Aging

The purpose of this report is to provide summary information on the performance of Maine’s home and community based care system. The data in this report can be used to identify areas where the system is working and people are satisfied with services and to identify areas where improvement may be needed. The data may also point to areas where further analysis or more information would be helpful. The data in the report represents baseline information. There are no absolute standards or norms against which the results can be compared. In some instances, it will be important to use the …

Results Of The Maine Experience Survey: Adults With Physical Disabilities Consumer Directed Waiver, Carolyn E. Gray Mph, Louise Olsen, Julie T. Fralich Mba

Disability & Aging

As a part of the grant activities of the Real Choice Systems Change grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), the need for a survey of consumers on the Consumer Directed Physically Disabled Waiver (also called the Consumer Directed or CD Waiver) was identified. This report provides the results of the in-home survey that was conducted by the Muskie School. The CD Waiver serves people age eighteen and older with severe physical disabilities that meet nursing facility level of care, are their own guardian and have the ability and desire to self-direct the personal care services they receive …

The Devil In The Details: Evidence For The Affliction Of Lyme Disease In Seventeenth Century Massachusetts, Mary Drymon Derose Ma

All Student Scholarship

This study looks for evidence that Lyme disease is an old affliction that predates its "discovery" in Connecticut in the nineteen seventies. It analyzes the role that Lyme disease may have played in the history of English settlement in Massachusetts during the seventeenth century. Early settlers at Plymouth and in the Boston area described sicknesses that they suffered from at contact as being the result of starvation and scurvy. In 1692, the residents of the Salem Village area were describing physical and mental afflictions that they felt were caused by witchcraft. Some of the seventeenth-century symptoms are very similar to …

Discovery Methods For Remediation And Quality Improvement In Home And Community Based Services, Julie T. Fralich Mba, Maureen Booth Mrp, Ma, Carolyn E. Gray Mph, Taryn Bowe, Stuart Bratesman Mpp

Disability & Aging

This is the second of three papers synthesizing the ideas and practices of states as they seek to improve the quality of home and community based services (HCBS) and supports for older persons and persons with disabilities.

Scope Of Services Offered By Critical Access Hospitals: Results Of The 2004 National Cah Survey, David Hartley Phd, Mha, Stephenie L. Loux Ms

Rural Hospitals (Flex Program)

No abstract provided.

Home And Community-Based Services: Quality Management Roles And Responsibilities [Appendices], Maureen Booth Mrp, Ma, Julie T. Fralich Mba, Taryn Bowe

Disability & Aging

Contents

Appendix A: Wisconsin Quality Management Concept ... A-1

Appendix B: Sample State HCBS Values and Principles... B5

Appendix C: Examples of State Templates for Mapping HCBS QM Activities... C9

Appendix D: Sample State HCBS Performance Indicators... D49

Appendix E: Oregon HCBS Contract Reporting Requirements ... E63

Appendix F: Georgia Performance Profile Statewide Summary ... F70

Appendix G. Sample Job Descriptions ... G76

Appendix H: Texas Health and Human Services Commission... H82

Appendix I: South Carolina First Health Services Partnership ... I86

Home And Community-Based Services: Quality Management Roles And Responsibilities, Maureen Booth Mrp, Ma, Julie T. Fralich Mba, Taryn Bowe

Disability & Aging

Early in the development of this first working paper on QM roles and responsibilities, QA/QI grantees contributed to a preliminary outline of the issues to be addressed. A subset of grantee states agreed to more fully discuss their perceptions of the issues and to guide the exploratory efforts of Muskie School staff. While the initial list of issues was quite lengthy, it was subsequently reduced to four essential questions:

1. How is quality defined for HCBS?
2. What is meant by quality management?
3. How do states develop quality management expertise?
4. How do states organize their quality management strategies?

This paper attempts to …

Mainecare And Its Role In Maine’S Healthcare System, Paul Saucier

Disability & Aging

No abstract provided.