Seniors and People with Disabilities Division
Assistant DHS Director: James Toews
Deputy Assistant Director: Cathy Cooper
This group's main program areas are:
Licensing and quality of care
Monitors & enforces standards of care & quality in long term care (LTC) settings. Activities include:
- Quality assurance
- Provider training & technical assistance
- Provider contract management
- Licensing & certification of LTC facilities & programs
- Policy development
- Protective services
- Community nursing
- Establishment of standards of care in adult foster homes, residential care facilities, assisted living & nursing facilities
Senior and disability services
Provides management & oversight of programs to seniors & people with disabilities. Activities include:
- In-home supports
- Home Care Worker program
- Oregon Project Independence (OPI)
- State Unit on Aging
- Aged & Physically Disabled (APD) field services
- Case management
- Home Care Commission
- Rule & policy development
- Technical staff training
Field:
- Medicaid/Older Americans Act (OAA)
- State, Contract & Transfer Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) Type B
- Oregon Project Independence (OPI) Older Americans Act (OAA)/Type A's
Federal resource & financial eligibility
Provide oversight of Medicaid programs; program data & information; benefits to clients. Activities include:
- Waiver and state plan development & compliance
- Research-planning & rates
- Quality assurance
- Federal reporting
- Medicare Modernization Act (MMA)/Medicare services
- Information systems coordination
- Provider payments
- Disability determination services
- Rule & policy development
Field:
- Disability determination services
Developmental Disability services
Provides management & oversight of programs to persons with developmental disabilities. Activities include:
- Comprehensive services
- In-home supports
- Staley agreement implementation
- Housing supports
- Rule & policy development
- Technical assistance
- Developmental Disabilities (DD) county relations
- Children & family supports
- State operated group homes
- Contract administration
- Provider development & monitoring
- Quality assurance
- Case management
Field:
- Community Developmental Disabilities programs
- Brokerages
- State operated group homes
Also see the Seniors and People with Disabilities organization chart
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