Alaska

This matrix represents the AoA Aging and Disability Resource Center Fiscal Year 2003 Grantees. The chart summarizes current or planned components for the ADRC Program for each grantee including Project/RC Name, State, Target Population, Eligibility Determinates and Contact Information.

This report describes the FY ‘01 & FY ‘02 Grantees’ accomplishments & progress, using information from 10/1/02 to 9/30/03 (Year Two of grant period for FY ‘01 Grantees & Year One of grant period for FY ‘02 Grantees). The report describes grant activities in six major areas: Consumer Direction & Control, Access to LTC Services & Supports, State Budgeting & Reimbursement Rates & Methodologies, Service Creation/Modification, LTC Service & Support Workforce, Quality Management Mechanism.

On October 5, 2004, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson 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. The grants were awarded under the New freedom Initiative and are known as Real Choice Systems Change Grants. A total of 52 grants were awarded in nine categories. The press release, which describes the grant categories, and list of grantees are available.

Grant summaries on the 2004 ADRC Grant Program grantees is provided here. Also, the HHS press release for this second round of 12 grants for developing ADRCs and a cooperative agreement are provided.

The attached files are the instructions for filling out the Alaska Consumer Assessment Tool (CAT) and a copy of the tool. The form was designed to be an objective tool that is easily coded. Each subsection of the manual includes the “how to complete” instructions and the time frames in which to measure the person’s abilities. The design facilitates immediate eligibility determination by the assessor.

Families USA has released Medicaid: Good Medicine for State Economies predicting the impact state Medicaid spending will have on business activity, jobs, & wages in 2005. The report argues that extending the $10 billion in fiscal relief provided by Congress to the states last year, through enhanced Federal participation in Medicaid, through the end of fiscal year 2005 would help strengthen state economies by generating even more business activity, jobs,& wages. Includes data for every state.

This report provides a summary of the partnership development activities undertaken by the 52 Grantees that were awarded a Systems Change Grant in 2001. It describes the ways that Grantees involved consumers and public and private partners in the development of Grant applications and their plans for involving them in implementation activities. In addition, the report includes a more in-depth description of partnership involvement for nine Grantees (three from each Grant type).

The purpose of this report is to compare and contrast the fiscal year (FY) 2001 Systems Change Grantees’ goals and planned activities as identified in their Grant applications submitted to CMS. This report provides a summary of the goals of the 52 FY 2001 Grantees and representative examples of the various activities they plan to implement to help them achieve these goals. The report also includes a summary of States’ views of the strengths, challenges and barriers of their LTC systems.

Of the Real Choice Systems Change grantees awarded funding under CMS’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 solicitation, 20 have one or more initiatives to improve the recruitment and retention of direct service workers. This report focuses on the workforce initiatives of these 20 Grantees, with an in-depth look at 7 Grantees (AR [2 grants], KY, MT, NH, NC, VT, with whom RTI conducted site visits).

This memorandum presents data on Medicaid long term care expenditures in Federal Fiscal Year 2003 (September 2002 through September 2003). The accompanying tables present data on Medicaid Expenditures for Long-Term Care services from 1991 to 2003.