Our expertise delivers policy analysis and
development, program and product development
using applied research, strategic planning
and product implementation and evaluation.
To develop and market innovation in public
policy, we employ intellectual, political
and organizational resources to forge new
products and courses of action for government.
To ensure quality, we work with our clients
to define a work scope for requirements
and goals for each assignment that we undertake.
Our research efforts have yielded many important
deliverables:
- Reports including "Long Term Care: A Conceptual
Framework," "Population Groups Needing Long-Term
Care" and "Current Management on Long-term
Care Service Delivery & Financing Options"
- White papers including "Basic Case Management
Model," "Prior Authorization Model," "Volunteerism
and Self-Help Models – Long Term Care Insurance
& Financing Long Term Care"
- Analysis of Oklahoma’s Medicaid long term
care system needs and recommendations for
reform
- Public policy meetings including conferences
of Members, advocates, community leaders,
and representatives of state agencies empowered
with designing a long term care system to
meet the needs of Oklahomans. An outcome:
the 75-page document entitled, "Conceptual
Foundations for a Long-Term Care Service
Delivery System" was completed by LTCA and
approved by all participants.
Problem: Double digit cost increases
coupled with decreasing state tax revenues
were spotlighting Oklahoma’s Medicaid long
term care costs. Oklahoma was over-utilizing
nursing home care compared to the rest of
the nation, adding 3,500 Oklahomans to nursing
homes each year. To engage the debate and
to initiate real change in Oklahoma’s long
term care infrastructure, policy makers
needed:
- Access to easy-to-use information resources
that were factual and reliable
- Explanations and feasibilities of alternatives
- Analyses of costs and effectiveness of alternatives
Solution: LTCA developed a network
of professionals from state and local governments,
academia and nationally recognized experts
in long term care. Comprehensive and detailed
analyses of other states’ systems and successes
in improving quality of long term care while
reducing cost were conducted and evaluated.
A knowledge base of effective long term
care policy was developed which could be
tapped for concise and readily accessible
information.
Results: LTCA produced a number of
tools for policy decision makers to review
and use to reshape public policy including:
- Mini-reports: "Medicaid Long Term Care Reform,"
"Benefits of a Public Trust Authority Management
of a Long Term Care System."
- Fact Sheets: "Oklahoma’s Medicaid Long Term
Care Policy Promotes the Use of Costly Institutional
Care," "Long Term Care Services, Case Studies
from Missouri Care Options."
- Handbook: "Development of Statewide Home
and Community-Based Services – Policy
Development and Cost Analysis."
