Moving Beyond Institutional Nursing Home Care – Part 2
Moving Beyond Institutional Nursing Home Care – Part 2:
Diverting Nursing Home Admissions & Transitioning to the Community from a Nursing Home
Remaining at home, instead of entering a nursing home, is the first choice for older adults and people with disabilities. Adequate home-based services are critical for avoiding a nursing home admission and for transitioning from a nursing home to the community. This program will focus on eligibility for and available home and community-based services (HCBS) under Medicaid in New York, and overcoming barriers to accessing HCBS. The panel will discuss programs and services essential for diverting people from nursing homes and transitioning back to the community, limitations on HCBS that lead to undue institutionalization, and recent policies, proposals, and workforce issues affecting HCBS in New York. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the need to expand and increase access to HCBS services in New York.
Sponsors:
- Elder Law and Special Needs Section
- Committee on Long Term Care Facility Reform
- Committee on Real Estate & Housing
- Committee on Medicaid
- Committee on Disability Rights
- Long Term Care Community Coalition
- May 27, 2021
- 10:00 AM
- 11:45 AM
- Virtual Participation
- Medicaid State Plan services and features that promote return to community
- Medicaid 1915(c) Waiver Programs and housing subsidies
- Money Follows the Person Transition Program (“Open Doors”)
- How Limits on Medicare Services Affect Medicaid HCBS
- Medicaid Redesign
- Changes Statute & Regulations
- HCBS Workforce Issues
Agenda
10:00 – 10:10 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
Moderator:
Simeon Goldman, formerly of Disability Rights New York, Albany, NY
10:10 – 11:25 a.m. Panel Discussion
Overview Home and Community Based Services:
Federal Legislation & Initiatives to Strengthen State HCBS; Community Integration Mandate under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Barriers to Accessing Services in New York
Practical Tips for Accessing Services & Supports
Panel:
Natalie Kean, Senior Staff Attorney, Justice in Aging, Washington, DC
Suzanne de Beaumont, Open Doors Program Director, New York Association on Independent Living Assistant Executive Director, Albany, NY
Bryan O’Malley, Executive Director, Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Association of New York State, Albany, NY
Valerie Bogart, Director, Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program, New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY
Moderator: Simeon Goldman, formerly of Disability Rights New York, Albany, NY
11:25 – 11:45 a.m. Q&A – Problem Solving
- Valerie J. Bogart, Esq., Speaker, Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program New York Legal Assistance Group
- Suzanne de Beaumont, Speaker, New York Association on Independent Living, Inc.
- Natalie Kean, Speaker, Justice in Aging
- Bryan O'Malley, Speaker, Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Association of New York State
- Simeon Goldman, Moderator, Formerly of Disability Rights New York
- Webinar
- 0KQ11B
- Elder Law & Special Needs Section
