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QUALIFIED PROVIDER NETWORK
SUBCOMMITTEE
OF THE LME
September
9, 2002
3:00 p.m.
711 Executive Place
; Board
Room
PRESENT:
Vince Wagner
, Director – Managed Care (chair), CCMHC
Densie Lucas
, Assistant
Area Director
, CCMHC
Don Harrer
, Director – Administrative Services, CCMHC
Terry Eads
, Director –
MIS
, CCMHC
Terri Knight
, Director – Developmental Disabilities Services, CCMHC
Debbie Jenkins
, Director – Child and Family Services, CCMHC
William
H. McDougal, Director – Substance Abuse Services, CCMHC
William
H. Robinson, Director – Residential Services, CCMHC
Stacy Martin
, Clerk to the Area Board, CCMHC
Karen
Campbell
Daniel
Muldrow, Main Focus
Richard
Varela, KV Consultants and Associates
Alice
Carter, Loving Care Habilitation Services
Debra
Stevenson, CREST, Inc.
I.
Welcome
- Vince
welcomed everyone to the meeting and extended his appreciation for
members taking time out of their busy schedules to participate.
II.
Introductions
- Vince introduced himself and asked
everyone to go around the room and introduce themselves.
III.
Announcements
- Stacy
announced that minutes for the Core Committee as well as all
sub-committees are posted on the website.
- Vince
announced that effective today,
Densie Lucas
, former Director of Adult Services is the new Assistant
Area Director
for Clinical Services for CCMHC.
IV.
Agenda Adjustments
- Committee
members read and approved the minutes from meeting on September 4,
2002.
V.
Update from “Training/Technical Assistance/Education
Subcommittee”
- Richard
reported that the committee hasn’t formally met yet but that he
has spoken with or communicated via email with a majority of the
members.
- The
first formal meeting is scheduled for September 19, 2002 at 9:30
at CCMHC Conference Room (rm 124) at 711 Executive Place. (The
small conference room adjacent to today’s meeting room).
- Richard
requests guidance from this committee to facilitate his meeting on
the 19th.
- Richard
also asked for clarification on time line.
Debbie J. informed him that have until the beginning of
next month to come up with the framework and timeliness as well as
the implementation schedule for the next three years.
She suggested looking at #7 on page 13 of the 26-page grid
for additional guidance.
- Will
bring information back to this committee (Qualified Provider
Network) then will forward to the Consumer and Family Advisory
Committee for approval.
VI.
Discussion of Qualified Provider Network Grid Comments/Ideas
for Implementation
·
There are other sections of the
grid being handled by other subcommittees that state specific areas
that are to be handled by the Qualified Provider Network.
Vince will extract this information and distribute at the next
meeting.
- Since
the plan states that the LME must show that it has reached out to
every potential provider, must establish meetings inviting
potential providers to become part of the network of providers.
(Debbie J. suggested that the LME must demonstrate several
meetings inviting community to come to learn additional
information)
- There
was discussion about the direction and objective of this endeavor.
Lengthy discussion followed regarding requirements and
qualifications for network membership and ensuring that providers
will provide quality services.
- Additionally,
there was discussion about how to disseminate information to
clients to provide them with consumer choice … Stacy suggested
utilizing expanded capabilities of the MAPP Info program that will
cross reference client’s residence with all available providers
within the 30 minutes/30-mile area that provide the services
needed by the consumer.
-
Terry E. will check with staff at DSS who are currently
utilizing the MAPP Info program to provide a demonstration of its use.
- Committee
members requested a list of general training requirements be
generated from 30-1.
- The
committee needs to identify possible providers then identify those
that are “qualified providers,” utilizing the following
criteria: best
practices, outcomes, clients rights, necessary policy/procedures,
and competencies.
- Daniel
recommended that the LME offer training modules, etc. for
necessary training. This
will be handled through the Training and Technical
Assistance/Education Subcommittee being headed up by Richard
Varela.
VII.
Round Robin
·
By the next meeting, members were
asked to read through the grid again and write
questions/recommendations for how to respond to the necessary
elements. In a couple of lines of thoughts, look at a way to get to
where we need to go.
·
Debbie J. offered a list of
deficiencies sited with various providers (while sterilizing the
providers’ names) as she thought it would be helpful.
VIII.
Next Meeting
·
The meeting adjourned at 4:11p.m.
with the next meeting scheduled for
Monday, September 16, 2002
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3:00 p.m.
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