Center of Health Care Strategies Webinar

This webinar, hosted by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) with support from the California Health Care Foundation, is the fourth in an Assisted Living for Medi-Cal Enrollees learning series. The series is exploring opportunities to strengthen cross-sector partnerships to improve appropriate, timely, and effective use of assisted living communities for Medi-Cal enrollees, including older adults, people with disabilities, and individuals with behavioral health needs.

This webinar will focus on barriers experienced by Medi-Cal members in maintaining their residence in assisted living communities and strategies to address them. It will explore key topics, including supporting residents with significant behavioral health needs and/or who face challenges paying for room and board. The session will also highlight roles of different stakeholders during service provision at one assisted living community.

Managed care plan staff, Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports providers, assisted living waiver care coordination agencies, county behavioral health and mental health plan providers, assisted living operators and providers, hospital and skilled nursing facility providers, and social services providers, among other interested stakeholders, are encouraged to attend this 75-minute event.

Agenda

I. Welcome and Overview

Speaker: Zackiya Grant-Knight, Program Officer, CHCS

II. Service Provision in Assisted Living

Speakers: Angela Kutnerian, Wellpointe; Schalon Woods, Alameda County Health; Bo Buena, Kern Health Systems

III. Moderated Q&A 

Moderator: Emma Rauscher, Program Officer, CHCS

IV. Preview of Upcoming Sessions and Wrap-Up

Speaker: Z. Grant-Knight, CHCS