Advance Care Alliance Honors Hutchinson Metro Conference Center Graduates

From Advance Care Alliance:

On June 14, the Advance Care Alliance of New York (ACA) celebrated the graduation of 222

professionals at the Hutchinson Metro Conference Center in the Bronx. Each graduate was certified in

Personal Outcome Measures® (POM), a nationally recognized training program offered through The

Council on Quality and Leadership. The training prepared staff to provide enhanced person-centered

services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the New York State Office for People with

Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) awarded ACA and 100 other organizations across the state, funding

to support this and a variety of other initiatives through the Balancing Incentive Program (BIP)

Transformation Funds. More than $65 million in short term grants were provided statewide.

Investments from the BIP grants are part of the state’s effort to implement a transformation of existing

Medicaid and Medicare services to managed care, enabling a broad network of providers, advocates and

community leaders to develop systemic improvements to delivery systems for individuals with intellectual

and developmental disabilities and their families and enhance the availability of integrated community

supports and self-directed, person-centered services.

ACA is a partnership of three provider networks—Alliance Care Network, Advance of Greater New York

and Long Island Alliance—who together represent more than 100 well-established, not-for-profit agencies

operating in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley. ACA's agencies provide high-quality

services to more than 25,000 people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their families,

funded and overseen by New York State's OPWDD.

Further information is available through the Advance Care Alliance website.