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Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional. A Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional, often referred to as a QIDP for short is a professional staff working with people in community homes who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and was previously known as a Qualified Mental Retardation Professional or QMRP. [1]
In 1981, Congress enacted legislation allowing Medicaid funding for LTSS through programs such as the Home-and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver program that provides supports for people to live in their communities and that promotes increased opportunities for choice and control (42 U.S.C. Ch. 7, § 1396n §§.) States have refocused ...
Opened in June 1969, the Lubbock State Supported Living Center, located in Lubbock, serves 54 counties in the Texas Panhandle. The campus is home to approximately 310 individuals, of whom 66 percent are male and 34 percent female. The average age is 45. The school employs approximately 790 people.
On December 1, 1964, the 250-page Texas Plan for Mental Health Services was completed. The report included thirteen sections and focused on two major resolutions: the establishment of mental health centers in metropolitan areas and the developments of the Texas Department of Mental Health as a centralized authority.
e. Home and Community-Based Services waivers (HCBS waivers) or Section 1915 (c) waivers, 42 U.S.C. Ch. 7, § 1396n §§ 1915 (c), are a type of Medicaid waiver. HCBS waivers expand the types of settings in which people can receive comprehensive long-term care under Medicaid. Prior to the creation of HCBS waivers, comprehensive long-term care ...
Austin State Hospital. Texas Department of State Health Services is a state agency of Texas. The department was created by House Bill 2292 of the 78th Texas Legislature in 2003 through the merging of four state agencies: the Texas Department of Health, Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Health Care Information ...
North Texas State Hospital. The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) is an inpatient mental health facility owned by the State of Texas and under the Texas Health and Human Service Commission 's Health and Specialty Care System division. NTSH has three campuses, one in Wichita Falls and two in Vernon. [1]
Medicaid Waiver programs help provide services to people who would otherwise be in an institution, nursing home, or hospital to receive long-term care in the community. Prior to 1991, the Federal Medicaid program paid for services only if a person lived in an institution. The approval of Federal Medicaid Waiver programs allowed states to ...