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Other Relevant Reports and Documents

Note:  NCSL provides links to other Web sites from time to time for information purposes only.  Providing these links does not necessarily indicate NCSL's support or endorsement of the site.

• Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care with Better Information, The Milbank Quarterly, 2005.

• Check out this report with highlights from the General Accounting Office titled, Long-Term Care: Federal Oversight of Growing Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers Should Be Strengthened. Go to GAO Reports, and click on July 7^th.

• United States General Accounting Office Testimony Before the Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, Nursing Home Quality: Prevalence of Serious Quality Problems, While Declining, Reinforces Importance of Enhanced Oversight To access testimony, Click on GAO Reports, Go to Reports and Testimonies, Click on Other Report Search Options, and type in GAO-03-561. 

• Arkansas' Cash and Counseling Project 

• Read the Ten Questions: On the role of Medicaid for persons with developmental disablities in the United States from the State of the States Developmental Disability Project, Department of Psychiatry and Coleman Institute, University of Colorado (May 2003)

• Choices and Consequences: The availability of community-based long-term care services to the low-income population. (Long-Term Care Financing Project, Georgetown University, May 2003) 

• The Future Supply of Long-Term Care Workers In Relation To The Aging Baby Boom Generation (Report to Congress from CMS, ASPE, DHHS, HRSA, BLS, ETA, May 14, 2003). 

• Implementing the Resident Assessment Instrument: Case Studies of Policymaking for Long-Term Care in Eight Countries (Milbank Report, May, 2003)

• Is Community Care a Civil Right? The Unfolding Saga of the Olmstead Decision (National Health Policy Forum, March 2003)

• Rebalancing Long-Term Care in New Jersey: From Institutional toward Home and Community Care (Milbank Report, March 2003)

• Sustaining Interdepartmental Collaboration to Support Community Integration for Persons with Disabilities (Center for Health Care Strategies, February 2003)

• Private Long-Term Care Insurance: Who Should Buy It and What Should They Buy? (Kaiser Family Foundation Report, March 2003)

• Regulation of Private Long-Term Care Insurance: Implementation Experience and Key Issues (Kaiser Family Foundation Report, March 2003).

• Sustaining Interdepartmental Collaboration to Support Community Integration for Persons with Disabilities (Center for Health Care Strategies, February 2003)
• Options for Medicaid Cost Containment (South Carolina Legislative Audit Council Report, January 2003)
• Community Integration: Transitioning from Institutionalized Care to Community-Based Settings (Brief from the Center for Health Care Strategies, January 2003)
• A Review of State Olmstead Plans (Working Paper from the Center for Health Care Strategies, October 2002)
• Status Report: Litigation Concerning Medicaid Services for Persons with Developmental and Other Disabilities (Human Services Research Institute, October 2002)
• Status Report: Litigation Concerning Medicaid Services. . . (Human Services Research Institute, Oct. 2002)
• View a Medicaid Cost Containment Study in South Carolina
• Download actual case syllabus from Cornell website: Olmstead v. L.C. - Supreme Court Decision
• Report from the Center for Health Care Strategies Implementing Community Integration: A Review of State Olmstead Plans
• These reports from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Real Systems Change grants provide a comparative analysis of grantees' Partnership Development Activities and of Goals, Objectives, and Activities.
• View a report from State Health Lawmakers' Digest on mental health and aging.
• Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) releases two new reports. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Community Integration: Understanding the Concept of Fundamental Alteration" May 2002 and Defining "Reasonable Pace" in a Post-Olmstead Environment April 2002. These two reports explore and analyze the concepts of "reasonable pace" and "fundamental alteration", both of which are central to the interpretation of the Olmstead decision. The first report of this trio Olmstead and Supportive Housing: A Vision for the Future was released December 2001.
• Secretary Thompson submits new report. Secretary Tommy G. Thompson presented President Bush with Delivering on the Promise: Compilation of Individual Federal Agency Report of Actions to Eliminate Barriers and Promote Community Integration on March 25, 2002. In the report, nine federal agencies outline more than 400 specific solutions that the agencies can implement to support community living for nearly 54 million Americans living with disabilities. The agencies involved in developing the report are: Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Education, Department of Transportation, Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Personnel Management, and the Social Security Administration. 
• Report Summarizes Olmstead Litigation This article appeared in the Journal of Poverty Law and Policy Nov/Dec 2001
• Secretary Thompson submits preliminary report. On June 19, 2001, President Bush signed an Executive Order calling for the swift implementation of the Olmstead decision. It ordered several federal agencies to collaborate and review "policies, programs, statutes and regulations to determine whether any should be revised or modified to improve the availability of community-based services for qualified individuals with disabilities." In response to the Executive Order, Secretary Tommy Thompson submitted "Delivering on the Promise: Preliminary Report of Federal Agencies' Actions to Eliminate Barriers and Promote Community Integration" on December 21, 2001. 
• ADA/Olmstead Decision State Medicaid Director Letters The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)) has sent five letters to Medicaid directors around the country to help guide the Olmstead implementation process.

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