What WPSA has to offer:

• Meetings in a centrally located area of the state held once every three months. These conferences include up-to-date issues and informed speakers addressing issues of concern in a relaxed setting.
• A gathering of professionals, employees, and consumers all striving to understand and improve the quality of home care in the state
• Membership on the Long Term Care Reform Council
• Membership on the Department of Health and Family Services Home Care Advisory Committee
• Responsible for the many changes to the revised MAPC Handbook, including new rulings on documentation, nursing supervision, travel time, and training issues.
• Legislative representation and updates on related issues
• Retention of an attorney, Burt Wagner; and a professional Lobbyist, Michael Blumenfeld
• Representation to advocacy forums through the Survival Coalition

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Promulgation of PCW Background Check Rule Begins:

DHFS has issued a scope statement for the rule to implement the caregiver background check disclosure legislation passed last session (2007 Wisconsin Act 172).  This is the first step for an agency to promulgate a rule, and DHFS plans to have the rule finalized before the November 1, 2008 effective date of the Act.  The scope statement is in the edition of the Wisconsin Administrative Register dated May 31, 2008, and is not online at this time.  When it is posted online, I will follow-up with a copy of the scope statement.

·   specifying the crimes that will be subject to mandatory disclosure; and

In addition, the scope statement says that the Department “may also propose additional updates to the rules.”  (i.e., the caregiver background check rules, not all rules related to personal care)

Michael Blumenfeld, WPSA Lobbyist