Nursing Facility Transition

Dr. Margaret Giannini, Director of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Disability needs our help to locate hurricane survivors who were placed in nursing homes and other restrictive facilities. HHS is enlisting our help so they can work with HUD to get these folks back out of the nursing homes and into temporary housing in the community. The attached memo details ways you can send specific information about survivors.

The Minnesota Association of Centers for Independent Living (MACIL) prepared <i>A Consumer Guide for Planning Your Move from a Nursing Home</i>. This comprehensive guidebook assists with the relocation decisions as consumers transition from nursing homes into the community.

The Delaware Passport to Independence goals are to: identify residents of nursing homes who may want to move to a new home; interview and assess residents for possible community living; explore if it’s feasible for some residents to transition; create an Individualized Service Plan for those choosing to be considered. They have created a number of tools during the project development including an education outreach presentation, assessment form and survey tool.

The March 2005 Essentials of Housing Teleconference focused homeownership. Jean Langendorf of the United Cerebral Palsy - Texas, and Martha Younger-White of the Illinois Department of Human Services were the Guest Resource Persons available to participants.

The Essentials of Housing February 2005 Teleconference was a forum for participants to discuss the five percent rule as it relates to accessible housing, as well as the new HUD Guidelines and the proposed 2006 national budget.

The Essentials of Housing January 2005 Teleconference focused on affordable housing. Carla Pope from the Iowa Finance Authority gave a presentation on the difference funding sources mixed to make affordable housing work in Iowa. Participants were able to engage in lively discussion after the presentation.

The Essentials of Housing Teleconference in November 2004 was a discussion forum for participants during which they discussed how their grant projects were related to housing issues. The Guest Resource Person on this call was Lynn Lippitt from the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority.

The October 2004 Essentials of Housing Teleconference focused on housing vouchers with Guest Resource Persons, Karen Avery and Brian Peters of Independence First in Wisconsin, available on the call to answer participant questions.

This was the first Essentials of Housing Teleconference in a continuing series. Meeting summary includes participant introductions and suggestions for future call topics.

The CMS Systems Change conference was February 28-March 2, 2005. Presentations from the 2005 sessions are available in both PDF and text formats. Topics range from ideas on sustaining systems change, employment services, Medicaid, integrating quality, policy implications and barriers to providing services. Full titles are listed in the keywords section.