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Updates
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The Long-Term Care Planning process includes internal and
external planning
groups. Here are some highlights from their work, along with
some additional
Long-Term Care Planning updates:
General
- Milwaukee County has two Provider Forums remaining. These
Forums are being held in order to discuss proposed changes
in the delivery of County-administered long-term support
services; find out the questions and concerns that service
providers have; and to gather input from service providers
for the planning process.
Remaining Provider Forums are scheduled as
follows:
For DSD residential service providers
MONDAY, MAY 12th from 12:30-2:30 PM at
Zoofari Conference Center, 10001 W. Bluemound Road,
Milwaukee
Click here to see the flyer for this Forum.
For DSD in-home service providers paid through M.L. Tharps and
A-New
THURSDAY, MAY 15th from 4:30-6:30 PM at
Zoofari Conference Center, 10001 W. Bluemound Road,
Milwaukee
Click here to see the flyer for this Forum.
Click here
for a copy of the PowerPoint presentation that will be
presented at these Forums.
- The
Consumer
/ Stakeholder Advisory Council has met ten times. The
next Advisory Council meeting is scheduled for Wednesday,
June 11th. For more information on
the Advisory Council, click on the link above.
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The Advisory Council has provided helpful input on the proposed planning models,
the Disabilities Resource Center Plan outline, issues to consider in
planning the expansion of the Family Care Care Management Organization (CMO),
governance issues and guidance on soliciting broader consumer and stakeholder
input.
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Click
here to link
to the Family Care Planning website for Marathon, Portage and Wood
Counties.
Disabilities Resource Center
- A
draft Disabilities Resource Center Plan outline has been
developed and feedback from the Advisory Council and Resource Center
Development Committee was included.
- Staff
are developing budgets for the Plan, a
phased-in implementation strategy and timetables, along with
projections of the people to be served.
- Discussions are being held with the Department of Health
and Family Services (DHFS) to consider
planning assumptions and strategies for a successful Disabilities
Resource Center in Milwaukee County.
Milwaukee
County Family
Care (CMO) Expansion
Internal Planning Groups (MCDA & DHHS)
(Managed Care System Design Teams)
- The planning model includes one County-run Family Care CMO that is separate from both the Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS) and Milwaukee Department on Aging (MCDA)
and reports to the Department of Administrative Services
(DAS). Input regarding the proposed organizational model was
sought from the Consumer / Stakeholder Advisory Council at
its meeting on May 30th, 2007.
- Six
Managed Care System Design Teams had been meeting to address
key functional areas of a managed care operation. With the
revision of the proposed planning model to include one
Family Care CMO for Milwaukee County, the planning focus has
shifted to internal workgroups with DHHS Disabilities
Services Division (DSD) and MCDA staff to consider the
operational details of the current Family Care CMO and how
best to accommodate adults with disabilities.
- Consumer
/ stakeholder input is being sought through the Advisory
Council, community forums, listening sessions and other
meetings. Please consider providing input on the Your
Space page of this website.
- The
CMO Financial Management / Business Solvency Planning Group developed
a proposal for a fiscal consultant / actuarial to help
develop a business plan and actuarial analysis. Once data is
available from the State, this work will proceed.
- MCDA and DSD have met to
plan how the Family Care CMO would need to be expanded to
serve adults with disabilities. Operational issues such as
care management, service authorization and enrollment
management have been considered. Preliminary estimates have
been developed for
anticipated additional positions that might be needed for an
expanded Family Care CMO that would serve adults with
disabilities.
- A MCDA / DSD Provider Network Planning Group has been meeting to plan how
best to
expand MCDA’s Family Care provider network and care
management units to accommodate persons age 18 to 59 with
disabilities. Work is being done
on a Network Capacity Analysis.
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