Systems
Transformation Grants
SOUTH CAROLINA
Grant Information
Name of Grantee
Lieutenant
Governor's Office on Aging (LGOA)
Title of Grant
Links
for Community Options
Type of Grant
Real
Choice Systems Transformation Grant
Amount of Grant
$2,971,779
Year Original Funding
Received
2005
Contact Information
Barbara Kelley, Deputy Director
Lt. Governor's Office on Aging
1301 Gervais
Street, Suite 200
Columbia, SC 29201
803-734-9899
kelleyb@aging.sc.gov
Subcontractor(s)
South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Lower Savannah Council of Governments
Appalachia Council of Governments
Santee Lynches Council of Governments
Susan Reinhard, Ph.D., R.N., Rutgers Center for State Health Policy
University of South Carolina Center for Health Services and Policy Research
(USC CHSPR)
University of South Carolina Institute for Public Policy Survey Research
Laboratory (SRL)
Target Population(s)
Older adults and adults with
physical and/or developmental disabilities.
Goals
- Improved access to
long-term support services: development of one-stop system.
- Transformation of
information technology (IT) to support systems change.
- Creation of a system
that more effectively manages the funding for long-term supports that
promote community living options.
Activities
- Expand the Lower
Savannah Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) target group to serve
adults with developmental disabilities/mental retardation and to include
four additional counties.
- Establish ADRCs in two additional regions: Appalachia
and Santee-Lynches.
- Link consumers with
transportation needed to access other long-term supports in the community
in Lower Savannah.
- Reduce duplicative
intakes to decrease consumer burden and increase staff efficiency.
- Design and implement
protocols in the Lower Savannah region
for providing short-term interim assistance to seniors and adults with
physical disabilities awaiting Community Long-Term Care (CLTC) services
identified as being at high risk of institutionalization or
re-hospitalization.
- Engage key
stakeholders in the strategic planning process to review strategies and
set common priorities for IT development that are
mutually valuable and feasible.
- Streamline and
simplify access to transportation services by creating a process for
assisting individual consumers with transportation needs, locating
resources, tracking services rendered, and coordinating local resources
through a Mobility, Information, Assistance, and Management Center.
- Develop software for
SC Access to maintain accounts for consumers that include basic
application information.
- Develop and implement
a methodology for prioritizing seniors and adults with physical
disabilities who are interested in receiving services from CLTC's Community Choices waiver.
- Develop a model
one-stop/call Mobility, Information, Assistance, and Management
Center in the Lower
Savannah region to enhance consumers' access to community
services and resources by better meeting their transportation needs.
Abstract
The grant will empower and support older adults
and adults with disabilities living in the community through streamlined access
to services and increased consumer choice. South Carolina will expand
activities of the current ADRC to develop additional linkages to simplify the
application processes and reduce duplicative intake; expand the ADRC target
group to encompass adults with developmental disabilities and to include four
additional counties; design a short-term interim assistance component for the
current ADRC; integrate a transportation one-stop/call Mobility; Information,
Assistance, and Management Center into the Lower Savannah ADRC; and apply
lessons learned from the implementation of the current ADRC to establish new ADRCs in two other regions. The grant will also develop the
technology to support consumer-oriented transportation access, install mobile
data terminals (MDT) and global positioning satellite units (GPS) in area
vehicles participating in the project to allow for real-time vehicle scheduling
and dispatching, and expand the SC Access Information Web site to incorporate
information on transportation resources. Finally, South Carolina will develop a methodology
for prioritizing the list of individuals who are interested in receiving the
Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver to promote more
efficient utilization of funding.