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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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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Elise Olsen: Early experiences and connections to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab make her job 'very full circle'
You could say it was inevitable that Elise Olsen would find her way to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab where she is a research assistant in the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR).
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HCBS Quality Matters Summer 2023
The 2023 Summer edition of HCBS Quality Matters is here! The newsletter focuses on inclusive disaster planning, profiles two of our HCBS project staff our literature corner and links to our new INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast.
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The CMS Access Rule: Concerns about proposed measures to evaluate person-centered HCBS
The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Service’s Final Settings Rule mandated that all home and community-based services shift to a person-centered delivery method by March 17, 2023, giving providers five years to make the necessary changes.
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Advocates push for inclusive emergency response planning as natural disasters become more frequent in the U.S.
Last year was the eighth consecutive year the United States had 10 or more severe weather events, known as ‘billion-dollar disaster events’ due to the amount of damage they cause.
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