The percent of people on the Developmental Disabilities Waiver with high needs has increased every year.
To help track progress, counties that are similar in population size are grouped together and called a "cohort." Cohort 5 includes Minnesota's largest counties and has the highest percent of people with developmental disabilities and high needs.
This measure shows that people with developmental disabilities and high needs are staying in their homes and communities. In the past, people with greater needs were not able to stay in their communities because the services they needed were only available in institutions.
Minnesota's long-term care system has been able to develop and offer these more intense and specialized services for people in the community. People prefer to stay in their community and have more choices for their services. That is important because home and community-based services are less expensive than institutional services.
The measure includes the number of people who receive services on the DD Waiver.
A higher percent means there are more people with high needs who get the services they need in their homes or other community settings. When the percent is low, more people with high needs are being served in institutions.
The number of people served on the DD Waiver with higher needs divided by the total number of people served on the DD Waiver.
Percent of people on the DD Waiver with high needs by graph
Percent of people on the DD Waiver with high need by table
|
Year |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
|
Statewide |
83.7% |
83.9% |
84.0% |
85.7% |
85.4% |
|
Cohort 1 |
76.7% |
75.5% |
76.3% |
79.1% |
80.1% |
|
Cohort 2 |
78.9% |
78.7% |
78.4% |
80.8% |
81.6% |
|
Cohort 3 |
80.9% |
80.6% |
81.5% |
84.1% |
83.4% |
|
Cohort 4 |
77.4% |
77.2% |
76.7% |
78.4% |
77.5% |
|
Cohort 5 |
88.8% |
89.5% |
89.5% |
90.3% |
90.0% |
Data source
DHS Data Warehouse
