Colorado

A new monthly report from HUD is available on-line and is broken down state-by-state and downloadable in an MS Excel spreadsheet. Participating Jurisdiction (PJs) can use the reports to view open activities in IDIS including activities with 100% of the funds drawn and with a status code of FD, or final draw. PJs can view activities that have been open (OP) for several years with little or no HOME funds drawn. These projects, if not progressing, should be cancelled. The data is updated monthly.

Colorado Real Choice Quality grantees designed this worksheet to guide clients as they \"shop around\" for the best provider agency to meet their needs. The worksheet suggests questions and criteria to use in evaluating agency services from a consumer perspective.

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing received a Real Choice Grant for quality and created this brochure for consumers as part of their quality improvement activities. This tool provides strategies, resources, and guidelines for addressing home care concerns and, when necessary how to file complaints.

This memorandum and tables present data on Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver expenditures from Federal Fiscal Years 2000 through 2005. Each individual HCBS waiver is classified by population served in order to show the distribution of HCBS waiver expenditures across long term care populations.

This memorandum presents data on Medicaid long-term care expenditures in Federal Fiscal Year 2005 (Sept 2004-Sept 2005). The accompanying tables present data on Medicaid Expenditures for Long-Term Care services from 1993-2005. Data included for Nursing Homes, ICF-MR, Personal Care, HCBS Waivers, Home Health, Home Care, Inpatient Hospital Care, Inpatient DSH, Inpatient Mental Health, Mental Health DSH, Medicaid Managed-Care, Prescribed Drugs, Long-term Care, Targeted Case Management and PACE.

This paper discusses the activities of 11 grantees and the program and policy issues they have encountered. The paper’s primary purpose is to provide information that states and stakeholders will find useful when planning or implementing consumer-directed initiatives, whether through solely state-funded programs or the Medicaid program. In particular, the report highlights program and state and federal policy challenges and how Grantees are addressing them.

This paper describes the activities of the 19 Grantees funded in fiscal year 03 and 04 from CMS and six Grantees funded in fiscal year 02 by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). F2F Health Information Centers assist families of children with special health care needs. This paper provides information states and stakeholders will find useful when planning or implementing similar initiatives. Read about the grant activities, implementation challenges, and accomplishments.

The statehealthfacts.org had recently added a data on states who offer Individual Budget programs. Use this interactive guide to compare and review activities related to participant-directed care. Data includes the program type, program name, CMS waiver authority, includes elderly, and a status update. Current as of January 2006.

This report focuses on the current system for critical incident reporting and tracking within long-term care waiver programs. It also includes recommendations from stakeholders on a definition of critical incident and emergency backup, policy recommendations for new mechanisms that would more appropriately address the needs of consumers, and outlines an implementation plan for new critical incident management mechanisms and statewide emergency backup infrastructure.

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing contracted with an independent consultant to organize and facilitate six focus groups with consumers of Medicaid waiver services, family members or representatives, and consumer-directed program participants. The focus groups discussed consumer experiences with existing emergency backup and critical incident management systems and identified strengths and potential weaknesses. This report provides results from the focus groups.