During 2008, LTCA entered into a contract with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OKHCA) to implement a Federal Medicaid Money Follows the Person rebalancing grant titled Living Choice Project. The purpose of this project is to transition 2,500 Oklahomans currently residing in nursing homes back home to the community with needed home and community based long term care services by 2011.
For more information on OKHCA's Living Choice Project, please visit http://www.ohca.state.ok.us/individuals.aspx?id=9476.
OLDR, Older Adult Targeted Capacity Expansion Grant Program proposes to increase Oklahoma's state infrastructure to better serve older adults with behavioral health issues, as well as to implement evidence based services. Transformation momentum continues in Oklahoma.
OLDR works to identify and advocate for improved mental health care; systems change; and, innovative solutions to ensure that all Oklahomans have opportunities and supports to recover from behavioral health issues and to prosper in the communities of their choice.
As an OLDR advisory team member, LTCA works with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, behavioral health and leaders in the aging field to create the state infrastructure by piloting evidenced based services in Comanche and Ottawa counties. For more information about OLDR, contact
This program offers skilled nursing care or homemaker services when needed to aassist with activities of daily living. With the assistance of homemakers, home health aides and/or skilled nursing visits, people living with HIV/AIDS stay at home rather than receiving services at a nursing facility or hospital.
LTCA contracts with the Oklahoma Department of Health to administer and amanage the program in Oklahoma. For more information on Ryan White in Oklahoma visit Ryan White Programs.
The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) provides medications for the treatment of HIV disease. Funds are also used to purchase health insurance for eligible clients and for services that enhance access to, adherence to, and monitoring of drug treatments. The program is funded through Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act.
LTCA contracts with the Oklahoma Department of Health to administer and manage the program in Oklahoma. For more information about Ryan White in Oklahoma visit Ryan White Programs.
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