Current Issues Affecting Home and Community-based Practices - Identifying Solutions

Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022, 7:00pm-8:00pm

Presenter(s): Monika Robinson, DrOT, OTR/L, Andrea LeFlore, OTD, OTR/L, Dalmina Arias, OTD, OTR/L; Shannon Vogel, OTR/L, QMHP

Course Description: As there is a narrow range of literature on non-traditional home and community-based occupational therapy services at the Illinois state level, it is difficult to highlight what is working well and what is not and where professional working groups might target policy efforts. Federal policy reimbursement changes have affected home health practices that are impacting access to OT services and are further complicated by agency procedures and lack of OT staffing. Changes are also occurring for other areas of practice at the state level impacting community-based services such as people with serious mental illness transitioning out of skilled nursing facilities into the community and access to OT services for people experiencing homelessness. Therefore, this Conversation that Matters will brainstorm to collect participant recommendations and priorities for OT home and community practice in the state to be used to recommend and support licensure change. This session will also highlight some of the factors contributing to practice challenges in home and community-based services and identify existing grass roots efforts that have been undertaken at the state level through the ILOTA HCH SIS group

Content areas(s): Home and Community Health Special Interest Section (HCH SIS)