WLTCAC: Former Wisconsin Long Term Care Advisory Council: 2018-2019

This page contains information about the Wisconsin Long Term Care Advisory Council that operated from January 2018 through December 2019.

• Charge
• Membership
• Meetings

Charge

In 2018 and 2019 the DHS Secretary charged the Council with providing advice and guidance to DHS on the following topics:

• Quality: Explore the development and use of quality metrics to analyze the long-term care system and service outcomes, including:
  • Provide advice and guidance to determine what metrics should be utilized to assess the effectiveness of the entire long-term care system.
  • Provide advice and guidance on a long-term quality strategy to be deployed at every level of the long-term care system.  
• Workforce: Develop strategies and data metrics to address workforce shortages in the long-term care system.
  • Provide advice and guidance regarding how to measure workforce shortages by provider type.
  • Provide advice and guidance on required financial reporting related to assessing workforce shortages.  
  • Provide advice and guidance to ensure that Medicaid contractors are maintaining quality of care.
• Community Development: Develop strategies to keep people safe and healthy in the community to prevent and delay the need for long term care services by:
  • Looking at strategies to prevent individuals from going into residential setting before necessary.
  • Ensuring that individuals in residential settings are in the right setting for their acuity needs.
  • Providing advice and guidance on prevention strategies that should be developed to delay the need for long term care services. 
• Communications: Develop plans to communicate to all long-term care stakeholders. Responsibilities will include:
  • Ensuring consistent messaging to all entities in the long-term care system.
  • Ensuring that policies are being accurately communicated to consumers.
  • Ensuring the Department of Health Services is receiving accurate consumer feedback