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The recent Behavioral Health Support and Crisis Services System Analysis Report Stakeholder Meeting recording is now available on our website.
The Office of Aging and Disability Services has published its first issue of a quarterly newsletter, Aging and Disability Connections .
The newsletter can be found on our website (PDF).
Ensuring that Maine people with age-related, physical, behavioral, intellectual, and cognitive health needs have access to high-quality care that supports independence is vital to Governor Mills' vision for improving Maines health care system.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) provides home and community-based services to adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD, ORC), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and brain injury primarily through MaineCare-funded programs. These are often called waiver programs because they operate with special exceptions from the federal government and are referred to by their Section number, which is where they can be found in the MaineCare rules.
April's monthly HCBS Provider meeting will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 11am.
Agenda items include:
Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Department has determined it is best to place our HCBS validation strategies on a sixty-day pause from April 13, 2020 to June 12, 2020. This decision has been made to ensure the health and safety of the members we serve, the provider base, validators, and to ensure the integrity of the HCBS validation process.
The March 25, 2020 monthly HCBS provider meeting is cancelled. A list serve notice is forthcoming with updated HCBS information.
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published regulations that define the settings in which it is permissible for states to pay for Medicaid HCBS services. The Statewide Transition Plan is required as part of ensuring Maine comes into full compliance with the federal regulations.
HCBS providers please join us Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 11 a.m. for February's monthly HCBS Provider virtual meeting. OADS will provide an update on continued work towards compliance with the federal HCBS Settings Rule requirements.
Topics will include, but may not be limited to:
OADS is working with AARP to obtain two (2) AmeriCorps staff for the rest of 2020.
AARP's recruitment materials for the AmeriCorps are positions below: