Vision and Values

1. Respects, supports, encourages, and promotes individual and family/ community empowerment and involvement. This is demonstrated through culturally competent services, person centered planning, individual choice of care settings and through maximizing individual control over service provision and resource utilization.

2. Supports Michigan's home and community based service system by assuring that all those who need high levels of care have a range of options that allow them to live in the community, if that is their choice, and sufficient support and services can be applied in cost-efficient ways through an accessible home and community based service sytem.

3. Promotes legislative and regulatory reform that assures safety and quality while removing unnecessary barriers that prevent Michigan from moving toward an efficient and dynamic continuum of care.

4. Actively supports and promotes community health, caregiver support, injury control and chornic disease prevention and management programs that reduce the need for long term services.

5. Includes the planning and oversight of efforts to realize this vision and shall include a central, meaningful role for participants and families, as wella as other stakeholders.

6. Builds the capacity to educate the general population by increasing awareness about the continuum of long term care options, and making informed choices.

Definition of Quality

A quality long term care experience is an individual evaluation. Quality is definied and measured by the person receiving supports and no through surrogates (payers, regulators, caregivers, families, professionals, advocates). The elements of quality are meaningful relationships, continuing of community involvement in a person's life, personal well-being, performance based customer satisfaction measures, the dignity of risk taking and the freedom to choose or refuse.