Advanced Skills for IDD Caregivers — Relias Webinar on March 19
Cathy Barrick
Date Changed for the Supporting Families Best Practices Series
The Role of HCBS Waiver Services in Supporting Families
April 4, 2024
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (CT)
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Due to unforeseen circumstances that are beyond their control, the Best Practice Series scheduled for March will now be in April.
Note: If you already registered before the date change, you do not need to register again. You will be sent a separate email with the updated zoom link for the new date.
The Best Practice Series introduces and elevates best practices related to supporting families. Each session will feature a panel of individuals or organizations who will address key recommendations from the National Agenda through their lens of:
- Grassroots Advocacy
- “Practice Level” Implementation
- States Service System
- Federal Policies
- Research
In this session, they will focus on Recommendation 4: The redesign of waiver services and supports to focus on quality-of-life outcomes, increase flexibilities, improve access and navigation, and ensure self-determination and self- direction (while also balancing the need to support the family).
PCHC Shares End of Life Resources
Reminder: ODP Annual Submittal of Financial Statements Due
This is a reminder that ODP is requiring Residential Providers and Support Coordination Organizations (SCO) to provide a PDF of their fiscal year-end financial statements. Providers and SCOs will be given nine months after the end of their fiscal year to make the initial submission. For example, if the provider’s fiscal year ended on 6/30/2023, their financial statements must be submitted by 03/31/2024. The link for the statement form is here. You can view the ODP announcement with further details and information here.
ANCOR Government Relations Committee: Overtime Rule Joins Proposed Rules at OMB
PCHC to Host Webinar on “HRST and Data Reporting” April 3
PPL Accepting New Enrollments for the VF/EA Model of Service
The Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) has shared ODPANN 24-027. The purpose of this communication is to announce that effective March 1, 2024, PPL is accepting new enrollments and referrals in the VF/EA model of service. Please view the announcement for additional information and details.
Now Open: Registration for CI Initial Certification Course
The Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) has shared ODPANN 24-026. The purpose of this announcement is to communicate that registration for the May – August CI Initial Certification Course classes (also known as cohorts) is now open on MyODP. Please view the announcement for information on how to access and register for the trainings.
Dual Diagnosis Professional Conference Series Presents “Centering the Humans in Human Services” on March 21
Registration Now Open for DHS ID Connect Public Town Hall on March 27
Multidrug Resistant Organisms in Medically Complex Adults Living at Home, Non-Institutional, Shared Living
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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This webinar is for all interested stakeholders. Presentation topics from Dr. Rabea Khadimi and Dr. Antonie Auguste will include multidrug resistant organisms in medically complex adults living at home, non-institutional settings, and shared living.
Presenters:
Rabea Khedimi, MD
Rabea Khedimi, MD, is a faculty member and ID Specialty Physician with UPMC/ID Connect. Rabea served as the Chief of the Infection Prevention and Control at the NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has been involved in the management of patients with suspected infectious diseases since she joined the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Khedimi completed her internal medicine training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Elmhurst and her Infectious Diseases Fellowship training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her career as a Clinician-Educator and Clinician-Administrator includes leadership roles at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine/Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She was an Assistant Professor of Medicine and an Infectious Disease Attending at Montefiore Medical Center. She also served as a Co-Director of Microbiology/Infectious Diseases courses at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Khedimi has experience in both teaching and providing clinical care to patient with HIV, Hepatitis B and C, STDs, and other infectious diseases. She also has expertise in infection control and was most recently the Chief of the Infection Prevention and Control Department at the NYC HHC/Elmhurst Hospital.
Antonie J. Auguste, MD, MPH
Dr Antonie J. Auguste has been recognized as an IDSA Fellow (FIDSA). Dr. Auguste serves the ID division at UPMC/ID Connect. Her primary role focuses on providing inpatient on infectious diseases consultation services via the Infectious Diseases Telemedicine service to multiple additional sites across telemedicine sites and rounding on the in-person services at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Additionally, she provides telemedicine infection prevention and control consultation to various telemedicine sites. Antonie earned her medical degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University at Syracuse, and she completed her residency in Internal Medicine and her Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the State University of New York at Stony Brook University Hospital and School of Medicine. She obtained her MPH degree from Columbia University School of Public Health and has a BA degree in biology from Columbia University.
Kate Gass, RN, BSN, CIC
With a varied background in clinical nursing and nursing management, Kate has spent time working in intensive care, emergency departments, and the cardiac cath lab. Earning her ASN from Butler County College and BSN from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, she is certified as a cardiac invasive specialist and is also certified by the Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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