Long Term Care Task Force

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The Michigan Medicaid Long Term Care (LTC) Task Force was created by Governor Granholm in Executive Order No. 2004-1. The twenty-one members of the task force were named on June 1,2004 and the first meeting was held on June 29 at the Radisson Hotel in Lansing. The MSU Institute for Health Care Studies is providing some staff suppport in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Office of Services to the Aging and other state agencies.

The charge of the task force according to the executive order was to:

1. Review existing reports and reviews of the efficiency and effectiveness of the current mechanisms and funding for the provision of Medicaid long-term care services in Michigan and identify consensus recommendations.

2. Examine and report on the current quality of Medicaid long-term care services in Michigan and make recommendations for improvement in the quality of Medicaid long-term care services and home-based and community-based long-term care services provided in Michigan.

3. Analyze and report on the relationship between state and federal Medicaid long-term care funding and its sustainability over the long term.

4. Identify and recommend benchmarks for measuring successes in this state's provision of Medicaid long-term care services and for expanding options for home-based and community-based long-term care services.

5. Identify and make recommendations to reduce barriers to the creation of and access to an efficient and effective system of a continuum of home-based, community-based, and institutional long-term care services in Michigan.

Governor Granholm congratulates task force members on the steps of the State Capitol, June 9, 2005.

Links

Governor Granholm's Executive Order No. 2005-14 implementing key task force recommendations.

Workgroup B (Financing) Final Report

Workgroup E (Education and Meaningful Consumer Participation and Oversight) Reports