The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) Bureau of Survey and Certification (BSC) is organizing a Continuum of Care Consortium. This group is designed to bring together hospital and long-term care (LTC) providers for collaborative dialogue focused on challenges in care transitions. Additional topics will include improving discharges to skilled nursing facilities, hospital admissions, code status, multidrug-resistant organisms, medication management and other barriers surrounding the continuum of care.
BSC and LARA’s Bureau of Community and Health Systems will serve as facilitators and provide regulatory guidance as needed. Additional participants will include LTC association leads, the Superior Health Quality Alliance and representatives from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, including the State Medicaid Agency and Office of Recipient Rights, on an ad hoc basis.
The group will meet quarterly for 90 minutes. MHA members interested in participating should contact Jennie Belden at BSC.
This is a great opportunity for hospital leaders, case managers and those responsible for care transitions to engage directly with state agencies and LTC partners to develop practical solutions to longstanding care transition challenges.
Members with questions may contact Kelsey Ostergren at the MHA.