ASPIRO's Self-Assessment Completed

 

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued new rules requiring states to ensure that all services for adults with disabilities are provided in settings that have community-based qualities.  In order to do so, the State of Wisconsin's Department of Health Services (DHS) has designed a Self-Assessment tool for providers, like ASPIRO and others, to evaluate the extent to which our two settings meet these requirements.

 

The overall question that the 50-page Self-Assessment was designed to answer was, "Do the settings in which adults with disabilities receive their services isolate them from the broader community?"   Ironically, and to the chagrin of certain public policy makers and certain advocacy groups, many of ASPIRO's constituents view our Dousman Street and Stiles Road facilities as "community."  So do my colleagues and me!

 

ASPIRO was required to complete and return the Self-Assessments by August 19th and we did so.  Random selection for site verification visits will occur in the near future. 

 

The State will inform us of our results in the coming months.  If we are found to be out of compliance we will be required to implement a Remediation Plan to bring us into compliance by March 17, 2019.