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WELCOME OUR NEW 2020 CMSA of the Chesapeake BOARD MEMBER and OFFICERS!
KIMBERLY ROESNER: PRESIDENT- ELECT
PAMELA DIETZ: TREASURER
FELICIA WARD: BOARD MEMBER
***Thank you to everyone that voted and contributed to another successful year. Looking forward to a year of advocacy, education and celebration for CMSA of the Chesapeake!
CMSA is proud to announce the recipients of the Chapter Excellence and Innovation Awards which were honored at the 29th Annual Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada in June 2019.
The CEIA awards recognize chapters that embody the CMSA Mission "to promote the growth & value of case management and to support the evolving needs of the case management professional."
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Thank you to all of our past and present Members, Non-Members, Sponsors/Exhibitors, and Board of Directors for a Wonderful 20 years of Dedication to CMSA.
We work every year to improve your access to education credits and will continue that for years to come. Our chapter would like to reach so many more Case Managers, Social Workers, and Worker's Comp employees in the upcoming future and hope all will help us in doing that.
Happy 20 Year Anniversary CMSA of the Chesapeake!
On behalf of the CMSA of the Chesapeake, it is an honor and pleasure for me to take this opportunity to welcome you to our twenty-fourth year as an active chapter. I want to extend my deep appreciation for the successful 2018 year to the 2018 Officers and Board members for their expertise, continued dedication, participation, contribution, and teamwork. In particular, I would like to acknowledge Keith Jacobs our past president for his insight, leadership, and commitment. Also, I thank our Sponsors and Corporate Partners for their generous support. I believe that again this year the entire board will utilize their expertise, experiences, commitment and collaborative efforts to accomplish another successful year.
Members of CMSA provide a high degree of professionalism, diversity, knowledge, advocacy, and educational programs. These quality attributes enhance the ability of our members to develop and use effective strategies to guide patients through the continuum of care in a holistic approach. As case managers, we meet the patient's needs both mentally and physically in an ethical, and cost-effective manner. The inclusion of all professionals regardless of disciplines of these characteristics are what essentially set us apart from other healthcare organizations.
Last year CMSA of the Chesapeake provided a variety of educational programs that included:
Medicine
Conference) which included the Annual Maryland Food Bank Drive
We welcome all diverse population of case managers from a variety of workplace settings to participate in our learning opportunities that include CEUs. Attendees do not have to belong to CMSA to participate in these learning programs.
Our first program for this year is on February 9, 2019 at The University of MD Rehab and Ortho Institute and the title is: "Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Practical Approaches to the Newest Technology in Diabetes". We are working on additional programs, please let us know if you have other topics of interest.
CMSA of the Chesapeake invites you to our annual conference on Friday, May 3, 2019, being held at The Hotel at Arundel Preserve. Our theme this year is “Moving Patients to Wellness”. Stay tuned for more details on the conference schedule on our Website. Come on down, spend the day, learn and network with old colleges and meet new ones. See you there.
I wish you all good health and we are glad to be part of your journey toward excellence as Case Managers.
Sincerely,
Patricia Chenevert, BSN, RN, MSA, CCM
President, CMSA of the Chesapeake
The Maryland Department of Health Invites Comments on the Proposed Changes to the way certain state plan participants and families obtain and manage their services.
The Community First Choice Program and Community Personal Assistance Services are Medicaid state plan services for people who need assistance with activities of daily living (ADLS) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLS). The programs provide assistance with activities of daily living to qualifying Medicaid recipients who have a chronic illness, medical condition or disability which includes individuals living with a brain injury. These services are intended help people get the supports that they need to stay in the community in their own homes instead of living in an institution or transitioning individuals from institutions back to the their own homes in the community. The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) has proposed a processing for implementing a self-directed service option to its CPAS and CFC services.
The traditional model of services managed through a provider agency will still be available. Participants can choose move from self directed services to traditional by contacting their Supports Planner to submit a change to their service plan. Additionally, MDH is proposing to change the management of transition service funds to be changed from individual supports planning agencies to one fiscal management services (FMS) vendor for the entire state. The FMS vendor will also be responsible for training participants in becoming an employer and rights and responsibilities of self direction. This change was made because the supports planning agencies lacked capacity to continue to administer transition service funds.
For people with brain injury and their caregivers, it is important to note that the proposed self directed services model does not change the rule that prohibits legally liable relatives from becoming the personal assistance providers for their family member. However, the new model does allow the participant to designate someone else to direct their services under the self directed service model. Generally, the addition of the self directed models allow participants and families additional options for how to obtain and manage their services.
The public has the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes found HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Send your comments [email protected]. Links are imbedded above that link to federal or state definitions used to define the terms for purposes of the CFC and CPAS programs.
Maryland Governor Signs a Federal All-Payer Health Contract:
For the full article click this link: Maryland Governor Signs Federal All-Payer Health Contract
Maryland State Retirees: 2019 Retiree Prescription Drug Coverage is Changing
For the Full Story and more information click this link:http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/benefits/Pages/Retirees.aspx
If your patients need help or more information here is a link for how Medicare Part D works: https://www.medicare.gov/part-d/index.html
FREE EDUCATION CEUs
Highlighting FREE(Members only) CEUs on cmsa.org > Educational Resource Library > Courses > Ethics(CCM approved Ethics Hrs)> Title: The Ethics Transformation
Online Course by Kathy Fraser
Course Objectives:
***This is only ONE of OVER 100 Free CEUs on our National Website***
This PDF is more information on Nationals Education Library: 2018 Education Library Resource
CMSA's Company Membership Program can save your company up to 50% per member. The more employees you sign up the higher the discount!
By clicking this link:
CMSA Company Membership Information
You can find out more information about how to join and all of the benefits for your company and its employees.
If you have any questions please contact us at: [email protected]
There are now 2 FREE CEU Opportunities on our Member website. All you have to do is go into our Member Area> Login> click on Education CEUs.
We appreciate your continued membership!
