Podcast: Linda Long-Bellil gives an overview of health disparities
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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On Thursday October 20, join us for our monthly Journal Club with Susan Chapman, author of  "Personal Care Aides: Assessing Self Care Needs and Worker Shortages in Rural Areas" in the Disability & Health issue. The event is open to Health Affairs Insiders.
TennCare's Employment Program
A photo of Leanne Brooks, a social worker with ECF Choices. She is smiling at the camera.
October’s Leading To Health column highlights a Tennessee employment program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) created and paid for by TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program.

The program—Employment and Community First Choices (ECF CHOICES)—creates access to integrated employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

It's based on the premise that employment provides a crucial boost to the well-being of people living with IDD by strengthening their ties to the broader community and creating routine social interaction at work.

ECF CHOICES has succeed in expanding access to home and community-based care for people with IDD and increasing the number of working-age adults with IDD enrolled in home and community-based care, Heather Tirado Gilligan reports.

The program has also decreased costs for home-based services. In the Section 1915(c) waiver programs, the average annual cost of services per person was $95,000; those costs were $25,000 per person for ECF CHOICES.

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Elsewhere in Forefront, Lisa Grabert and James Muller discuss payment reform efforts by CMS intended to limit spending for skilled nursing facility and home health agency services.

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Linda Long-Bellil Gives An Overview Of Health Disparities

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Linda Long-Bellil of the University of Massachusetts about research that reveals disparities among people with disabilities exist along race, gender, and sexual orientation lines.
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10 Things You'll Learn From The Disability And Health issue. Hospital patients with developmental disabilities in the English National Health Service are up to 2.7 times more likely to experience preventable patient safety incidents compared with patients without developmental disabilities. Rocco Friebel and Laia Maynou
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