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Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

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With the difficult circumstances regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, RCPA member Maher Duessel, a specialized full service CPA firm, would like to provide you with some important updates in key four areas: reporting filing date changes, legislative and regulatory updates, best practices for governments and non-profits, and financial assistance programs. Listed below is a summary of updates regarding these areas. Also, we have posted some helpful links on our website. We encourage you to monitor our blog for future updates regarding COVID-19 as matters evolve.

You are welcome to use our resource blog below and on our website. We have a team working on these issues. We will update as information becomes available and you are welcome to forward questions to us. We are also assisting with filling out loan apps under the new law if members need assistance. View the full message from Maher Duessel.

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Dear ANCOR members

We know that COVID-19 is leaving many of you scrambling to ensure that the people you support have access to groceries, cleaning supplies, medical supplies and other essential items. In an effort to establish a partnership with Amazon to help ameliorate these situations, we wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on March 20, which subsequently was reported on in the New York Post yesterday.

We now have a potential opportunity to work directly with Amazon, and while it’s too early to tell what the company may do, if anything, to prioritize the needs of people with I/DD, they have asked us to provide more information.

Therefore, we are asking you to please take five minutes in the next 24 hours to let us know what your experiences have been by completing this short form. The form asks which products you have struggled to procure, whether you have used Amazon to procure these items, and what sticking points have popped up in the process.

With your feedback, we will try our best to work with Amazon to identify potential solutions to your challenges. Thank you for completing the form today.

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In response to COVID-19 and its potential impact on obtaining FBI clearances and the delivery of services to individuals with an intellectual disability or autism, the Department of Human Services (DHS), Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) Announcement 20-034 was released to allow a Provisional Hiring Process that includes guidance for FBI clearances.

ODP recognizes that many FBI clearance sites, operated by IdentiGO™ by Idemia in Pennsylvania, are closed in response to COVID-19. ODP will suspend the FBI fingerprinting check for employers hiring staff serving adults and will accept the provisional hiring template for staff serving adults if an FBI clearance is unable to be obtained.

This provisional hiring process can only be used when the IdentiGO™ by Idemia service locations are closed in your area due to the COVID-19 emergency. If a provider hires someone provisionally, it must be done in compliance with the Older Adults Protective Services Act (35 P.S. §§ 10225.101—10225.5102) and applicable regulations.

This template, labeled “COVID-19 Provisional Employment,” contains a provisional employment disclosure statement for staff serving adults. Providers should use this template as a resource if there is a need to hire someone on a provisional basis during the COVID-19 emergency.

The template must be submitted as part of the provider’s qualification documentation to demonstrate that the provider is following the provisional hiring policy. This provisional hiring process is only applicable during the COVID-19 emergency and the lack of availability of the IdentiGO™ by Idemia locations.

If you have any questions regarding the Provisional Hiring process, please contact the ODP Provider Qualification Mailbox.

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CMS has released the memo “Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IIDs) and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs).” This 10-page memo provides guidance, an extensive Q&A section, and many helpful links.

Memorandum Summary:

  • CMS is committed to taking critical steps to ensure America’s health care facilities and clinical laboratories are prepared to respond to the threat of COVID-19.
  • Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of COVID-19 – CMS is providing additional guidance to intermediate care facilities to help them improve their infection control and prevention practices to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, including revised guidance for visitation.
  • Coordination with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and local public health departments – We encourage all Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IIDs) and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) to monitor the CDC website for information and resources, and contact their local health department when needed (CDC Resources for Health Care Facilities).
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