Urges and requests the Louisiana Department of Health and the Louisiana Workforce Commission to organize a special committee to develop strategies for addressing the direct support professional workforce shortage
Urges and requests the La. Department of Health to adjust the state Medicaid budget to allocate funding more equitably throughout the disability services system
Urges and requests the Louisiana Department of Health to develop a professional consulting nursing service code for reimbursement of certain services for individuals with developmental disabilities
Requests a study and recommendations concerning barriers to hiring of direct support professionals who provide Medicaid-covered services to people with disabilities
Urges and requests the La. Department of Health to fully fund the costs to providers of implementation of the electronic visit verification system that the department has mandated
Requests the La. Department of Health to establish a four-bed peer group for intermediate care facilities for people with developmental disabilities
Requests the La. Department of Health to study and report on the costs of providing nursing services in certain Medicaid-funded programs and facilities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Urges and requests the La. Department of Health to convene a healthcare workplace violence task force to advance the priorities expressed in HCR No. 60 of the 2019 R.S.
Urges and requests the La. Department of Health to convene an opioid action summit
Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to form a group to study alternative tools to inform reimbursement rates for intermediate care facilities