Friday, December 4, 2020

COVID Helpline for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Caregivers

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Just before Thanksgiving, The Arc of California and the Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare launched a helpline for people with ...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

COVID-19 Isolation Impact on People with Intellectual Disabilities

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People with Intellectual Disabilities have been isolated for hundreds of years, and COVID-19 has just set that isolation factor back by fift...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Hurricane Preparedness Checklist

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Monday, August 3, 2020

Testing Numbers in Texas May Be Off - Here's Why...

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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 ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Happy Developmental Disabilities Professional Day

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Logo for Developmental Disabilities Professionals Day Today is July 15th and besides being the last day for 2020 to file your federal in...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Behind the Scenes at Texas HHSC Surrogate Program

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In the 1990s, Texas implemented a program to assist in decision making for individuals with intellectual disabilities known as the Surroga...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Stimulus May Arrive as a Debit Card

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There have been reports of some nursing facilities requiring residents to sign over stimulus checks from the IRS and now some debit cards ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Stimulus and Medicaid Limits

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Questions surrounding the 2020 Stimulus packet and payments to citizens has surrounded the ICF world and others receiving Medicaid funding. ...
Friday, April 24, 2020

CDC Rolls Out Mask and Screening Requirements for COVID-19

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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...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Infection Control Survey Visits in Texas

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Recently many private providers are reporting infection control surveys in Texas.  These surveys are happening in the middle of the COVID-...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Staff and The "Did I do that?" Syndrome

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Direct care staff makes up the cornerstone of the ICF/IDD (Intermediate Care Facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities)  wor...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

When Do You Have Too Many Assessments?

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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...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Texas ICF Consents

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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 ...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Make a Difference Again

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QIDPs or QDDPs are unique individuals.  These hard-working and often underpaid staff members are given an ultimate charge in their jobs...Th...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The Importance of Life Safety Code Surveys for ICF/IID Programs

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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...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Intellectual Disabilities and Openings in the ICF/IID Programs in Texas

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

The Third Part of a POC for the ICF/IID Program

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We have now looked at the first two parts of the POC which you must include to have a successful and accepted POC by the state of Texas. ...