HSC, State-Supported Living Centers (SSLC), and Local Authorities:
DADS implemented a new process to assign level of need 6 for leaving an SSLC and enrolling in the HSC program, effective August 1, 2012. An excerpt:
1) A SSLC must continue to follow requirements set forth in DADS rules at Title 40, Chapter 2, Subchapter F, Division 4 (relating to Moving From a State Facility to an Alternative Living Arrangement) in identifying individuals who will enroll in the HCS Program, including:
• notifying the assigned local authority (LA) of the individual’s decision to enroll in the HCS Program in accordance with DADS rule at 40 TAC Section 2.275(a); and
• developing a community living discharge plan and coordinating the transition with the HCS service planning team in accordance with 40 TAC Section 2.278.
Yesterday, the New York Times published a story about how medical schools are trying to entice more students to become primary care physicians. The irony of the shortage and the new health care reform law is that the country needs more such physicians as a consequence of the law. An excerpt:
Despite the fact that about half of medical students indicate an interest in primary care on their first day of medical school, by the third year, that number decreases to 20 percent, said Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, the president and co-founder of Primary Care Progress , an organization working to increase interest in the field.
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Texas Tech is one of a handful of universities trying to encourage students to choose family medicine, in part by reducing the cost of medical school with an accelerated three-year program that allows primary care physicians to graduate a year early…There are also other ways to enhance their primary care curriculum.
