The QIDP

A group of Congressional leaders have decided to address the archaic words "Mental Retardation" in a new House of Representatives...

  Let's face it, COVID is here to stay.  Regardless of the removal of masks mandates, the return to routine life, and even the fight to ...

  As we move quickly through the new vaccine and await the results of vaccinations, more issues are being found.  One concern is the COVID v...

When it comes to vaccines, most ICF programs give the required vaccines as outlined by the federal and state health agencies.  Consents are ...

Just before Thanksgiving, The Arc of California and the Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare launched a helpline for people with ...

People with Intellectual Disabilities have been isolated for hundreds of years, and COVID-19 has just set that isolation factor back by fift...

 

Testing numbers in Texas, especially for long-term care facilities such as ICF/IID programs, may be off and up to double what they should ...

Logo for Developmental Disabilities Professionals Day Today is July 15th and besides being the last day for 2020 to file your federal in...

In the 1990s, Texas implemented a program to assist in decision making for individuals with intellectual disabilities known as the Surroga...

There have been reports of some nursing facilities requiring residents to sign over stimulus checks from the IRS and now some debit cards ...

Questions surrounding the 2020 Stimulus packet and payments to citizens has surrounded the ICF world and others receiving Medicaid funding. ...

If you are an ICF/IID provider in Texas and most likely anywhere in the United States, you may have already been notified of the new CMS g...

Recently many private providers are reporting infection control surveys in Texas.  These surveys are happening in the middle of the COVID-...

Direct care staff makes up the cornerstone of the ICF/IDD (Intermediate Care Facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities)  wor...

Everyone in the ICF/IID field knows that the key to developing programs for the people we serve is assessments.  We have assessments for h...

There are roughly 700-800 ICF/IID programs in Texas and all have a need for consents to meet the federal and state standards.  Sometimes ...

QIDPs or QDDPs are unique individuals.  These hard-working and often underpaid staff members are given an ultimate charge in their jobs...Th...

When ICF/IID programs deal with state issues, the three words that most hate to hear is "State is here."  It's the sign tha...

The following link will take you to the publication with the article above: Intellectual Disabilities and Openings in the ICF/IID Programs...