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May 2010

L&I Funding Available for VR Community Innovation/Expansion Projects

May 14, 2010

On May 13 the PA Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) announced that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds would be available for Innovation and Expansion Projects to serve customers of the PA Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) who have the most significant disabilities. L&I is requesting that grant applications be submitted for community [...]

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DPW Requires Approval of LTC Training for PCH Administrators

May 14, 2010

On May 11 the PA DPW Office of Adult Residential Licensing issued a regulation clarification to a notice previously issued on Regulation §:2600.64(c) on Administrator Annual Training. In its May 11 notice DPW said that any source of training that has received a continuing education approval number from the Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners of [...]

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PA Applies to HHS to Manage High Risk Insurance Pool

May 14, 2010

On May 12 PA Governor Edward Rendell announced that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has applied to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to manage the state’s high risk health insurance pool to be established under the federal health care reform law recently signed by President Barack Obama. The high risk health insurance [...]

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PA House Majority Policy Committee Hearing on Pediatric Palliative Care

May 14, 2010

On May 13 PA House Majority Policy Committee held a public hearing on palliative care in Pennsylvania from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at The Children’s Institute in Pittsburgh. State Representative Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny, requested the hearing and served as co-chairman. The agenda included testimony from the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (Dr. Steven Docimo, vice [...]

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Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Holds Hearing on TBI

May 14, 2010

On May 5 the U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing on the state of care for troops and veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI).  Committee Chairman Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) praised VA and DOD for making significant progress since a hearing on this issue in 2007 but cautioned that serious obstacles remain [...]

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SSA to Contract for Managers for Ticket-to-Work Program

May 14, 2010

On April 30 the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that that it intends to issue two solicitations on or about May 17 for management of certain services for its Ticket to Work program. In one solicitation SSA will seek to procure the services of a Ticket Program Operations Support Manager (OSM) contractor for its Ticket [...]

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