Hi everyone,
a great place to check for dentists that accept Medicaid is the Dental Health Council Web site, at http://www.dentalhealthcouncil.org/. Click on the Medicaid tab on the lefthand side.
CSI SCs Serving Community Members
Word gets out that you are good service coordinators, and we do work with community members. However, there are eligibility requirements:
1. Community member must be 60 or older.
2. You may work with a younger community member if they are applying to the co-op and meet the co-op’s eligibility criteria (ie some co-ops have units for mobility impaired 18-61 year-old member; Labelle and Washington square also serve 18-61 year-old members with disability; and Labelle and Wyandotte have waivers to accept members 55+. )
3. You may work with a registered guest of a member, but they need to provide written documentation that they are registered and are staying less than 30 days.
4. If a member who is a client asks for information and referral resources for their family, you may provide appropriate agency referrals and resources. Write that up under the member’s progress notes.
5. There may be select cases when a SC serves a member from another co-op, but you need to talk with Sharon and me about this first.
Thanks all.
HHS partners with pharmacies to educate Medicare beneficiaries about new health benefits
HHS partners with pharmacies to educate Medicare beneficiaries about new health benefits
Today, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced partnerships with several pharmacies to help customers learn about new Medicare benefits available to them under the Affordable Care Act – the health care law. These partnerships – with CVS Caremark, Walgreens, Thrifty White, Walmart, and Sam’s Club – will provide Medicare beneficiaries a range of educational materials on newly available preventive services, as well as savings on prescription drug spending in the “donut hole” coverage gap. At a CVS in Jacksonville, Secretary Sebelius discussed the new preventive services and received a free blood pressure reading at the CVS MinuteClinic.
“Our pharmacy partners are helping their customers make informed health care decisions,” said Secretary Sebelius. “These partnerships will help people with Medicare learn more about new preventive services such as mammograms, and the new Annual Wellness visit that are available at no charge for everyone with Medicare.”
Some examples of how pharmacy partners are working to increase awareness of preventive services available under Medicare include the following:
CVS Caremark is distributing material about new preventive services covered at no cost to beneficiaries at its more than 7,300 CVS/pharmacy stores and 600 MinuteClinic locations, through brochures, register receipt messages and online.
Thrifty White Pharmacy is providing information on preventive services through its 85 locations throughout the Midwest.
Walgreens is distributing information in nearly 8,000 pharmacies and over 350 Take Care Clinic locations, as well as using in-store announcements and providing this information as part of its Walgreens Way to Well Health Tour with AARP.
HHS is working with Walmart and Sam’s Club to provide healthcare information to their shoppers online.
Other pharmacies or partners can find information on how to work with CMS to educate consumers about the benefits available to them at: http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Outreach/Current-Partnership-Opportunities/index.html
Protecting Confidential Files
To Connect to Hannan via Remote Desktop Connection:
1) Start > All Programs > Remote Desktop Connection
2) After Computer: hannan.npserv.org
3) User Name: Hannan Provided User Name
4) Password: Your Password
5) Answer in the affirmative to any questions (Connect, Yes, Allow, Accept, OK, Approve, etc.)
If you would like to access files that are on the LOCAL computer C: drive and/or a Flash Drive, you must do the following BEFORE connecting via Remote Desktop
1) Start > All Programs > Remote Desktop Connection
2) Click on “Options”
3) Click on the “Local Resources” Tab
4) Under “Local devices and resources” click the “More…” button
5) Click the + box to the left of “Drives”, and fill the box next to “Local Disk (C:)”
*NOTE: Your Hard Drive may be named something other than “Local Disk”. It should still have (C:) listed after it.
6) Fill the check box next to any other devices you would like to have (Flash Drive)
7) Click OK, click back to the General tab, and continue from step 2) Above.
The LOCAL devices you selected should appear in Start > Computer, under “Other”.
If you have any trouble or questions, please submit a new ticket to: helpdesk@new.org
OR call: 734-998-0160 x513
Thanks.
John Gallias
npServ System Administrator
http://help.npserv.org/support/ | 734-998-0160 x513
> The CSI and/or PVM SCs can access their own My Documents via:
> Start > [Display Name] > My Documents
> Where [Display Name] would be replaced by the name of the user logged in (Example: Rachel Jacobsen)
FCRC Certification
Save the Date:
CSI requires all of their FCRC committee members to participate in their fall FCRC Certification training annually. We are requiring all of our our CSI SCs to also recertify annually. It is a good way to maintain continuity with their procedures and assuring that the SC Program enhances, but doesn’t undermine, their FCRC system.
The fall trainings are on Friday, September 21st, 10am-2:30pm at Riverview Co-op or Monday, September 24th, 10am-2:30pm, at New Horizons Co-op. Sharon Bolden, Education Coordinator, is sending out the training invitations and the SCs are required to RSVP to her with which training they are choosing to attend. I have not yet figured out how Laura and Karen will participate, but I hope to arrange with Washington Square for them to take their van along with the FCRC members from their co-op who will be driving out for the training.
Monthly CSI Liaison Meetings – Tip of the Week
i. Role of Liaison is to call your monthly meeting, but co-op culture is that they liaison isn’t responsible for assuring the members take responsibility for attending (this is true of any co-op meeting, including council meetings). You can broach the idea of whether it would be a good idea if somebody made reminder calls the day before your monthly meetings to assure more representative participation. This cannot be the liaison or the SC, so a co-op member (the President, FCRC Chair, or Education Chair) would have to volunteer to do this.
ii. Please bring your co-op specific contact sheet to your next monthly meeting and update it with your new co-op leadership and any missing information. Please update the sheet and resave it to the shared drive so that we all have access to the updated information (this is especially important for your substitute SC and me). Thanks.
iii. Please ask for updated House Rules and Bylaws if they have changed since your start date. Please give me a copy of the new ones. You won’t automatically receive updates, so it’s a good topic for monthly meetings.
8 16 12 CSI Conference Call Agenda and Notes
CSI Conference Call Agenda, Draft
8/16/12, 1-2pm (note time change)
1-877-402-9753
Passcode 1608056#
- Introductions and welcome Jane Grant and Matt Hamburg
- Guest presenter: npserv
- Using remote connection to create, save and manipulate confidential documents
- Confidential computing practices
- General Zimbra and Shared files Q&A
- Hannan Updates
- Save the dates:
- i. October 1-2 is “Co-op 102” hosted at Hannan; facilitated by CSI (note: our 10/4 conference call will be cancelled that week)
- ii. October 1st: post work baby shower for Lindsay and Laura (and anyone else who drinks the water between now and then)
- iii. Tuesday, October 23, 12noon-2pm, ADL Assessment training by Brenda Carney (Note: our 10/25 conference call is cancelled)
- RJ academic year schedule starting Sept 6th; and PTO 10/4-10/10
- Save the dates:
- CSI Updates
- Role of Liaison on Duty
- i. Hold status quo
- ii. Attend general, council and other important co-op meetings
- iii. Refer members to their House rules and Bylaws
- Monthly meetings
- i. Role of Liaison is to call your monthly meeting, but co-op culture is that they liaison isn’t responsible for assuring the members take responsibility for attending (this is true of any co-op meeting, including council meetings). You can broach the idea of whether it would be a good idea if somebody made reminder calls the day before your monthly meetings to assure more representative participation. This cannot be the liaison or the SC, so a co-op member (the President, FCRC Chair, or Education Chair) would have to volunteer to do this.
- ii. Please bring your co-op specific contact sheet to your next monthly meeting and update it with your new co-op leadership and any missing information. Please update the sheet and resave it to the shared drive so that we all have access to the updated information (this is especially important for your substitute SC and me). Thanks.
- iii. Please ask for updated House Rules and Bylaws if they have changed since your start date. Please give me a copy of the new ones. You won’t automatically receive updates, so it’s a good topic for monthly meetings.
- Co-op 102
- i. Email RJ and Sharon scenarios ahead of time
- Communication with liaisons. Ask which mode of communication is best for them. If having challenges with liaison responding, please cc Anne Sackrison and me. You all know the liaisons are really busy with multiple co-ops and other job duties, so take a bit of time at each monthly meeting to learn more about their role, which should help find some common ground for communication.
- Role of Liaison on Duty
- AASC Online Updates
- Remember to complete your SC Daily Log. You are aiming for an average of no greater than 25-30% of your time doing administrative tasks. If you are having a challenge with this, please let me know and we can discuss.
- Frail and at risk members are only calculated in your Semi Annual Reports for members who are 62+. Hence, if you have a co-op with younger adults who are frail and at risk, please print a customized service report and attach it to your Semi Annual Report in order to capture the number of frail and at risk younger adults with whom you work.
- How many Semi Annual Reports does each property submit? Good question. I need to talk with our HUD representative about this. It differs regionally and depending on type of grant. I’ll get back with you soon.
- You can, and should, do a Cost Savings report and progress note (no service log) for members of the co-op who are not clients, but have benefitted financially from your services (ie you hosted a Senior Project Fresh educational workshop at the co-op and all attendees received Farmers Market vouchers worth “x” dollars.
- I heard some familiar voices asking the very best questions during the AASC Online training yesterday. I wanted to let you know that you can always contact Jenell to ask questions or ask her for a listing of upcoming trainings she’s already scheduled, and she’ll email you an invitation to attend whichever one works into your schedule.
- I confirmed with Cheryl that you can deactivate inactive community members 2 months after your last necessary contact (ie you’ve followed up on services rendered and/or you’ve made 2-3 attempts to follow up and have not received a reply). You cannot deactivate a resident member unless they move out or pass away.
- Additional Items
- Next meeting facilitated by Diane Crawford
Difficulties with Skype Audio
I connected with John at npServ this afternoon and he provided a suggestion in case someone is not able to hear you while utilizing Skype:
While in Skype click on the small arrow(in the bottom right hand corner that indicates, “show hidden icons”, right click the bright green arrow and click “quit”, unplug the webcam from the hard drive (waiting a minute or so) and plug the camera back in the USB.
After completing these steps, you “should” be able to hear one another clearly. Hope this helps 🙂
Extra Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Costs
Medicare beneficiaries can qualify for Extra Help with their Medicare prescription drug plan costs. The Extra Help is estimated to be worth about $4,000 per year. To qualify for the Extra Help, a person must be receiving Medicare, have limited resources and income, and reside in one of the 50 States or the District of Columbia. For more information about this benefit, click here.
Educational Presentation at Washington Square Co-op
Washington Square Co-op will be hosting an educational presentation on August 21, 2012 at 2pm. A representative from Guardian Finance and Advocacy Services will be sharing information with the members regarding Powers of Attorney and Health Care Advocates. We are looking forward to this presentation as there has been a great deal of interest on this topic thus far!!