HCBS Quality Matters News Archive
HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter Archive
The HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter gives you an inside look at the work we are doing as well as the studies we collaborate on!
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Episode 12: Kenny's World: Person-Centered Planning in Practice
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we speak with Kenny, a home and community-based services recipient, and Heather LaTorra, CEO of Kenny's provider agency, Marrakech, about how they partnered to make the necessary changes to Kenny’s services to meet his goals.
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Research Update: CROR's Rehabilitation and Research Training Center on HCBS
CROR’s Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Home and Community Based-Services (HCBS) is funded by a 5-year, $4,375,000 grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The Center is now in its fourth year.
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NIH Designates People with Disabilities a Health Disparities Population
On September 26, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), designated people with disabilities as a ‘population with health disparities’ for research supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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Rosa Plasencia, Director of the National Core Indicators – Aging & Disabilities (NCI-AD) at ADvancing States
Learn more about Plasencia whose experience with National Core Indicators has helped the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) Rehabilitation and Research Training Center (RRTC) on Home and Community-Based Services with the development of HCBS outcome measures.
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Bill Aims to Raise the Asset Cap for Supplemental Security Income
This past fall, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced a bill to reform the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.* SSI, managed by the Social Security Administration, provides supplemental income to more than 8 million people who are over the age of 65 or who have disabilities.
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Hiring People with Disabilities: the Chicago Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, RUSH University Medical Center and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
On July 26, 2022, the 32nd anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot opened the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) Career Center.
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Q & A with Lisa Helma, Manager of Vocational Rehabilitation Services at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Learn more about vocational rehabilitation, or voc rehab as it’s sometimes known, a discipline that works with individuals with disabilities to help them achieve their vocational goals. Voc rehab services revolve around training, education, employment and job retention.
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