The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (Department) has the following information to share below:

Announcement:

• Help Build the Health & Child Care Workforce

Memo:

• Home Health and Private Duty Nursing Provider Responsibilities

Meetings:

• Private Duty Nursing Stakeholder Information Sessions: Summary of Changes with Question & Answer

Friday Feature:

• The In-Home Support Services (IHSS) Provider List Webpage

Announcement

Help Build the Health & Child Care Workforce by Spreading the Word to your Patients, Community, and Staff about These Once-in-a-lifetime Educational Opportunities!

Please share this incredible opportunity to access free training to join the health care and child care workforces to directly support our shared goal of increasing recruitment into these critical jobs. Please print and display these time-limited training opportunity communications in your office, staff break rooms, and other related areas. The link below includes a poster that can be printed and a digital display that can go on TV screens in member or staff areas. Print and digital resources found here: 

hfcgo.com/assistance.

The first poster communicates free, short-term training for in-demand health care professions (i.e., Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA), Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT), Medical Assistants (MA), Pharmacy Technicians, etc.). The second poster also communicates free early childhood education courses to become a certified child care professional. Both of these free educational opportunities are essential to revitalizing the health care workforce, while offering upward mobility for low-income Coloradans seeking new career paths. If these communications get to the right people - specifically Health First Colorado members - they can be life-changing, giving people a once-in-a-life-time opportunity for free certifications that create a meaningfully different income trajectory, while helping grow the workforce.

Please help leverage these unique educational and career advancement opportunities by sharing these important communications today!

Memo

Please find a new memo listed below. The memo is also on the Department's 2022 Memo Series Communication webpage. Viewing the Memo Series webpage will show other memos of interest.

• Operational Memo - Home Health and Private Duty Nursing Provider Responsibilities (Oct. 27, 2022): The purpose of this Operational Memo is to provide information about Private Duty Nursing (PDN) and the role of the Home Care agency and their responsibilities in the Prior Authorization Request (PAR) submission and service authorization process.

Meetings

Please find meeting announcements listed below. Other meeting information is on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement webpage.

Private Duty Nursing Stakeholder Information Sessions:

Summary of Changes with Question & Answer

The Department understands this has been a truly difficult time for families. As a follow up to the information we shared in our Oct. 26 communication, the Department is offering opportunities to learn more about the Private Duty Nursing benefit and the recent temporary administrative approval process. Additionally, families will have the ability to ask questions about this process and provide feedback from their experience. We look forward to hearing from this community as we work to ensure the right level of care is approved in a timely manner.

First Member and Family-Only Session

Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022

4:30 - 5:30 p.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Meeting ID: 821 9711 1318, Passcode: 329664

Join via Phone:

(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257

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Second Member and Family-Only Session

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022

12 - 1:30 p.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Meeting ID: 838 1396 1661, Passcode: 280433

Join via Phone:

(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257

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For more meeting information, see the Private Duty Nursing webpage.

Friday Feature

The In-Home Support Services (IHSS) Provider List Webpage

This week OCL is featuring the IHSS Provider List webpage.

About IHSS

IHSS is a participant-directed service-delivery option that allows Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver participants to direct and manage their care with the support of an agency. See the IHSS Fact Sheet for more information.

About the IHSS Provider List

The IHSS Provider List contains a list of providers who have been approved by the Department and certified by the Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) to provide IHSS. Members and Authorized Representatives (ARs) use this list to obtain contact information for providers they may want to consider for the member's care needs. 

About Becoming an IHSS Provider

For information about becoming an IHSS provider, see IHSS FAQs for Case Management Agencies and Providers.

About the IHSS Provider List Webpage

The IHSS Provider List webpage includes information about:

• Approved IHSS providers

• Contact information for each provider on the list

• A searchable index of provider information including counties served and specialty populations

We hope you'll bookmark the IHSS Provider List webpage and share this resource with your organizations and networks.

Signing up for OCL and Department Communications

If you are not currently on the communications list receiving these emails,

you can sign up here.

See a list of all Department newsletters you can subscribe to.

Looking for Prior OCL Communications?

Do you know about the OCL LTSS Newsletter Archive? On this page, you can:

• Search OCL newsletters back to January 2021

• Subscribe to the newsletter

• Keep track of OCL announcements, meeting reminders, and memos