Workgroups

The Long Term Care Task Force has created seven workgroups to examine and report on specific areas of concern.

The informal names of the workgroups and their particular original value staements are in the table below. Please click on the Workgroup name to explore its subsequent work.

Name	Corresponding Values in Vision & Value Statement
Workgroup A: Single Point of Entry and Person-Centered Planning	3. Provides accessible, regionally and locally decided single points of information, assessment, care planning and entry into the system for those seeking long term care services ensuring that each individual is supported to make full informed decisions about his/her services with the participation of chosen family and friends.	4. Uses consumer-centered processes and tools to assess and match the individual’s needs and desires across a continuum of LTC services based on demonstrated need, effective individualized management and care planning.
Workgroup B:  Financing	5. Promotes efficient and appropriate movement across the continuum of LTC services by developing innovative financial policies that allow resources to follow the individual.	10. Dramatically increases the number of Michigan citizens who purchase long term care insurance or who develop other financial plans to support individual needs and desires across a continuum of long term care services.
Workgroup C: Continuum Development	6. Assures the quality and cost effectiveness of Michigan’s nursing facility care system by allowing greater innovation in the delivery and design of quality nursing home services, and by providing incentives for nursing homes to fully participate in an effective continuum of care for their community.	7. Supports Michigan’s home and community based service system by assuring that all those who need high levels of care have a range of options that allow them to live in the community, if that is their choice, and sufficient support and services can be applied in cost-efficacious ways through an accessible home and community-based service system.
Workgroup D: Workforce Development	8. Builds and sustains an adequate, well-trained, highly motivated, and appropriately compensated workforce across the long term care continuum.
Workgroup E:  Education and Meaningful Consumer Participation and Oversight	12. Includes the planning and oversight of efforts to realize this vision and shall include a central, meaningful role for participants and families, as well as other stakeholders.	13. Builds the capacity to educate the general population by increasing awareness about the continuum of long term care, insurance options, and making informed choices.
Workgroup F:  Chronic Care	11. Actively supports and promotes community health, caregiver support, injury control and chronic disease prevention and management programs that reduce the need for long term services.
Workgroup G: Legislative & Regulatory Reform	9. Promotes legislative and regulatory reform that assures safety and quality while removing unnecessary barriers that prevent Michigan from moving toward an efficient and dynamic continuum of care.