OKLAHOMA
Grant Information
- Name of Grantee
- Oklahoma Department of Human Services
Aging Services Division
- Title of Grant
- Oklahoma's CD–PASS Project
- Type of Grant
- Community–Integrated Personal Assistance Services and Supports
- Amount of Grant
- $850,000
- Year Original Funding Received
- 2001
Contact Information
Carey Garland
Deputy Division Administrator
312 NE 28th, Room 101
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
405–522–4509
carey.garland@okdhs.org
Subcontractor(s)
Long Term Care Authority of Tulsa
Michael Lester
918–879–5223
Ability Resources
Carla Lawson
918–592–1235
Progressive Independence
Jeff Hughes
405–321–3203
Target Population(s)
Aged, blind, and disabled persons with developmental disabilities.
Goals
- Create infrastructure that supports the availability of personal assistance services in a manner that affords consumers maximum control over the selection of individuals working on their behalf and the manner in which services are provided.
- Develop ILC–based Intermediary Services Organizations (ISOs) to serve as consumers' business agent and consultant for employer responsibilities.
Activities
- Guide the creation of CD–PASS infrastructure and develop an Intermediary Service Organization (ISO) implementation plan.
- Produce recommendations for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) contracting requirements as conditions of Provider Participation for CD–PASS Intermediary Services Organizations (ISOs).
- Develop CD–PASS infrastructure, implement CQI CD–PASS ISO contracting Conditions of Provider Participation and CD–PASS ISO startup operations providing consumers CD–PASS.
- Launch a second CD–PASS ISO.
- Evaluate and recommend modifications to the Nurse Practice Act provisions for delegation of nursing tasks to nonlicensed persons.
- Produce a comprehensive evaluation of all grant infrastructure development activities.
Abstract
DHS/ASD and DHS/DDSD are the Oklahoma state agencies responsible for administering Oklahoma's 1915(c) waiver programs. The LTCA of Tulsa is a local public trust authority that is the Administrative Agent for the ADvantage Program, the statewide waiver that serves 10,000 frail elderly and adults with physical disabilities. Ability Resources is an Independent Living Center (ILC) that has been a case management provider in the ADvantage Program since 1995. These entities are partnering to provide leadership to achieve the goals and objectives of this Project, which will focus on four major areas.
Consumer/community valued service delivery system. The Project will promote accountability of the service delivery system to consumers, providers, and policy makers through development of infrastructure modifications that afford consumer/community control in the design, implementation, and quality monitoring of PAS and CD–PASS service delivery.
Consumer–directed personal assistance services. The Project will create an infrastructure that supports the availability of personal assistance services in a manner that affords consumers maximum control over the selection of individuals working on their behalf and the manner in which services are provided. Infrastructure includes development of the ILC–based ISOs to serve as consumers' business agent and consultant for employer responsibilities.
Available, reliable, appropriate, and quality CD–PASS. The Project will produce a service delivery infrastructure that supports a CQI system that accords premium value for ISO provider and program evaluation and improvement of CD–PASS service delivery.
Flexible, accountable delegation of nursing tasks. The Project will recommend Nurse Practice Act language that supports appropriate delegation of nursing tasks to unlicensed staff or to family or friends who have received training from, and demonstrated skill attainment to, a registered nurse.