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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