Systems
Transformation Grants
MASSACHUSETTS
Grant Information
Name of Grantee
University
of Massachusetts Medical School
Title of Grant
Massachusetts
Community First Systems Transformation Grant
Type of Grant
Real
Choice Systems Transformation Grant
Amount of Grant
$2,893,946
Year Original Funding
Received
2005
Contact Information
Mason Mitchell-Daniels, Project Director
Center for Health Policy and Research
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Boston, MA 02108
617-573-1764
Mason.Mitchell-Daniels@state.ma.us
Subcontractor(s)
To be determined during the strategic planning
process.
Target Population(s)
People of all ages living with disabilities.
Goals
- Comprehensive quality
management system.
- Creation of a system
that more effectively manages the funding for long-term supports that
promote community living options.
- Long-term supports
coordinated with affordable and accessible housing.
Activities
- Develop uniform
quality management approach for assessing quality of Home and
Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers and long-term support program
service delivery, using the information to make improvements, and
reporting the quality information to different audiences.
- Identify manageable
number of quality goals, measures, and measurement approaches.
- Ensure quality reports
for different audiences are accessible and provide useful and actionable
information.
- Determine whether a
quality management unit and integrated data collection processes are
needed.
- Identify populations
to target for transition and diversion.
- Identify possible
financing approaches that enable use of institutional funds for community
services.
- Assess best nursing
facility diversion/transition practices employed here and elsewhere.
- Determine how to best
coordinate, expand, and implement best diversion/transition practices,
including new financing approaches.
- Place housing support
functions in community agencies.
- Fully integrate
assessment of housing needs into individual service planning.
- Enhance Mass Access
Housing Registry.
- Conduct education and
outreach about home modifications and retro fitting existing housing.
Abstract
The grant will address gaps within the current
long-term support infrastructure to provide an array of effectively managed,
long-term support choices and the opportunity for individuals within the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts to exercise those choices. In particular, the
grant will focus on the development of a comprehensive system of quality
management that includes quality indicators and strategies for assessing
long-term support programs or services; establishment of alternative financing
mechanisms as tools to strengthen nursing facility diversion and transition
efforts; and creation of accessible and affordable housing options that allow
individuals to transition to or remain in their own communities.