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From the Director, Department on Aging, requesting authorization to execute a contract with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) enabling the Department on Aging to serve as the Aging Resource Center of Milwaukee County under Family Care for the period January 1, through December 31, 2012, and to accept $2,773,222 and such other revenues as DHS may award to operate the Resource Center in 2012.
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DATE: November 22, 2011
TO: Sup. Lee Holloway, Chairman, Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors
Sup. Peggy Romo West, Chair, Committee on Health and Human Needs
FROM: Stephanie Sue Stein, Director, Department on Aging
RE: Request for authorization to execute a contract with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) enabling the Department on Aging to serve as the Aging Resource Center of Milwaukee County under Family Care, for the period January 1, through December 31, 2012, and to accept $2,773,222 and such other revenues as DHS may award to operate the Resource Center in 2012
I respectfully request that the attached resolution be scheduled for consideration by the Committee on Health and Human Needs at its meeting on December 7, 2011.
The resolution authorizes the Milwaukee County Executive, or his designee, to execute a contract with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) enabling the Department on Aging to serve as the Aging Resource Center of Milwaukee County under the Family Care program for the period January 1, through December 31, 2012, and to accept $2,773,222 and such other revenues as DHS may award to operate the Resource Center in 2012.
Family Care is Wisconsin’s long-term care entitlement program for the elderly and persons with disabilities. The major purpose of Family Care is to divert persons requiring long term care services from expensive publicly funded nursing homes to more appropriate community based forms of care. One essential component of Family Care enables counties to serve as an Aging and Dis...
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