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Reducing Nursing Home Utilization and Expenditures and Expanding Community-Based Options
02/28/2007 | Requests *Summary
This paper explores and analyzes selected state approaches to engage nursing facility operators to be part of systems change activities that offer individuals additional, less restrictive choices to live more independently with appropriate supports. The strategies described offer other states lessons learned that may be replicated as part of a broader approach to meet changing and growing demand for home and community-based services. Efforts in IN, IA, MI, MN, NE, ND, NY, and WI are described.
Author
Morris, Michael
Available Files
- Discussion Paper PDF (1,418K, 110 pages)
Keywords
Long Term Services and Supports; nursing facility conversion; Voluntary Planned Closure Program; Eligibility Minimum Requirements; Evaluation Criteria; Rightsizing Demonstration Program; Nursing Facility Conversion; Long Term Care Services Grant Rules; Facility Conversion Cash Fund; Innovative Design Supplemental; Comparative Analysis of Nursing Home
Utilization; Rightsizing and Converting Activities
Topic
Financing HCBS
Type/Tool
Reports
Source
Rutgers/NASHP
State
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Wisconsin
Date Created
03/12/2007
Contact
Nirvana Huhtala Petlick
npetlick@ifh.rutgers.edu
npetlick@ifh.rutgers.edu
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