Status of LTSS and related mental health services, housing options, and supports

An Assisted Living Report Card to measure and report on the quality of individual assisted living settings for housing and services paid for privately and through public programs, is being developed for Minnesota. Once the report card is fully implemented by the DHS Aging and Adult Services Division (AASD) along with the Minnesota Board on Aging (MBA), results will be shared with the public through a website and will be updated over-time as new data on quality are available.

The Department of Human Services uses the Employment First dashboards to track employment outcomes in Minnesota’s disability services system in support of Minnesota’s Employment First policy. This policy raises the expectation that all working age Minnesotans with disabilities:

• Can work
• Want to work
• Can achieve competitive, integrated employment
• Will be offered the opportunity to work and earn a competitive wage before being offered other supports and services.

HB101 Places helps people find housing vacancies throughout Minnesota in settings that offer services.

This legislative report (PDF) delivers the findings of a survey about direct support professionals (DSPs) and HCBS providers in 2021. The findings indicate multiple challenges in the DSP labor market, which consequently affects access to HCBS.

Housing Stabilization Services is a Minnesota Medical Assistance benefit to help people with disabilities, including mental illness and substance use disorder, and seniors find and keep housing.

This report shows the number of new LTSS assessments/screenings completed within the required timelines divided by the total number of new LTSS assessments/screenings that occurred in the time period.

LTSS performance measures demonstrate how well the programs support people in their community while ensuring system sustainability. In general, people report they have a higher quality of life when living in the community. In addition, home and community-based services (HCBS), on average, are also less costly than institutional services.

This report (PDF) serves as the annual data report and summarizes the process DHS used to develop a set of measurable benchmarks for lead agencies (counties, tribal nations, and managed-care organizations) responsible for conducting long-term care consultation (LTCC) services. The report provides an update on the status of the benchmarks project and provides annual data on each performance measure. It also includes conclusions about next steps and plans for ongoing reporting of data.

Moving Home Minnesota, federally known as the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration, started in 2013. Moving Home Minnesota is an enhanced benefit to support people who wish to move into their own home from institutions like nursing facilities or hospitals. The state has the task of rebalancing spending between institutional and community-based care to ensure cost-effective and sustainable services are available for Minnesotans with disabilities and older adults so they can fully participate in their communities.

This website contains reports describing initiatives related to aging and disability services. These initiatives measure and track how well home and community-based services (HCBS) support people with physical disabilities and people who are older. The goal is to understand how people use services and supports to help live, learn, work, and enjoy life in their community.

This website contains reports describing initiatives related to intellectual and developmental disability services. These initiatives measure and track how well home and community-based services (HCBS), support people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and their families. The goal is to understand how people use services and supports to help live, learn, work, and enjoy life in their community.

The Minnesota Nursing Home Report Card helps inform nursing home choice. Long and short stay nursing homes may be searched on a variety of criteria including a number of quality measures.

This dashboard shows the percent of people who have their initial face to face LTSS assessment/screening while they are at home instead of in a residential setting and to measure the percent of people who are living at home at the latest assessment.

Minnesota nursing facilities have been able to contract with DHS to earn performance-incentive Medical Assistance (MA) payments (PIPP) of up to 5 percent of the operating payment rate. The incentive payments are time-limited rate adjustments. DHS has implemented the 16th round of performance-based incentive payments.

Telemedicine is seen as a way to mitigate the transportation gap to access LTSS. This report (PDF) summarizes primary and secondary research on the use of telemedicine to deliver services covered by Medicaid in the state of Minnesota.

The Vulnerable Adult Protection Dashboard explains what happens after people report suspected maltreatment of a vulnerable adult to the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting Center (MAARC).

The Department of Human Services is required by law to provide information on county and state use of available resources for home and community-based service waiver programs. This web page links to information about waitlists for these waiver programs: Brain Injury (BI), Community Alternative Care (CAC), Community Alternative for Disabled Individuals (CADI), Developmental Disabilities (DD). The CAC, CADI, and BI waivers no longer have a waitlist. There is no waitlist for elderly waivers.