COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE OF THE COMMITTEES ON SENIOR SERVICES IN THE DISTRICT
COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
NOTICE OF PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE
Author: LTC Representative
2016 Olmstead Plan for public review and comment
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY MAYOR FOR
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
AVAILABILITY OF OLMSTEAD PLAN
FOR PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT
The Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services announces availability of the Olmstead Plan for public review and comment.
Money Follows the Person
October 8, 2015
Today I had the pleasure of listening in on a conference call between Mrs. Levy and the Advisory Commission for Money Follows the Person (MFP). MFP is a program developed through Medicaid that strives to assist states in rebalancing their Medicaid funded long-term care systems. Helping transition patients out of long-term care facilities, and back into their homes is one of the commission’s primary goals. By allowing patients to choose where they receive their care, whether it is in-home, or in a facility, people feel as though they can take control of their own bodies and healing. Providing people with a public housing voucher, known as a transition-housing voucher, is how the commission helps move people out of the nursing homes. These are given to patients who are able to move out of a long-term care facility and live on their own with some supports.