IN THE 02/11/2025 COMMUNICATION:
- Final Information Bulletins posted
- Health & Human Services Budget Briefing - Live Stream on 2/19/25
- Rate Summaries
- American Heart Month
FINAL INFORMATION BULLETINS POSTED:
The Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) has posted the below FINAL Information Bulletins (IB).
You may also review all Final IBs and/or Draft IBs. Questions on any IB can be directed to DHS.DDDComments@illinois.gov.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES VIRTUAL BRIEFING BUDGET PROPOSAL
NOTICE TO GROUPS INTERESTED IN ILLINOIS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: At noon on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, Governor Pritzker will announce his Fiscal Year 2026 proposed budget for the State of Illinois.
A virtual Health and Human Services briefing will follow at 2:00 p.m. via live stream.
Deputy Governor Grace Hou and First Assistant Deputy Governor Ryan Croke, along with the leaders of the Departments of Human Services (IDHS), Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), Public Health (IDPH), Aging (IDoA), Children and Family Services (DCFS), and Veterans Affairs (IDVA) will provide a brief overview of the FY26 proposed budget - immediately followed by a Q&A session.
There will also be highlights of the Department of Human Rights (IDHR), Human Rights Commission (HRC), Guardianship and Advocacy Commission (GAC), Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA), Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities (ICDD), Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission (IDHHC), Health Facilities Review Board (HFSRB) and special initiatives.
To view the briefing, please use this live stream link. Please submit questions in advance to DHS.BudgetQA@illinois.gov, by February 16, 2025.
This platform is accessible to participants with disabilities. The live stream will include real time captioning, and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter will participate. For other accommodation requests, please notify DHS.AuxiliaryAids@illinois.gov.
RATE SUMMARIES
Division of Developmental Disability (DDD) rate summaries are being mailed to all Community Integrated Living Arrangement (CILA) and Intermittent CILA (ICILA) providers this week. Rate summaries provide a listing of all individuals that are being supported by that provider and include information and updates related to the 01/01/2025 rate increases. Specifically rate summaries will enable providers to see the most up-to-date Inventory for Client and Agency Planning (ICAP) and Health Care Level (HCL) scores, the working capacity of the home, and 53R hours (additional hours of billable DSP support) an individual has, the current Direct Support Professional (DSP) wage rate, and the top-line daily and yearly rate as of 01/01/2025. Mailings were sent on Monday 02/10/2025.
AMERICAN HEART MONTH - FEBRUARY 2025
February is American Heart Month! Heart disease is consistently the number one killer of ALL Americans. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2022 a reported twenty percent of ALL deaths were caused by heart disease. Women are more likely than men (of all races) to experience cardiovascular complications. Heart attacks effect men and women differently, but research shows that all immediate Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest.
Call to action: This month promotes the education of the common person so that they can live a more fulfilling and healthy life. American heart Association (AHA) encourages everyone that is able to learn CPR, either hands-only or otherwise, an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart is not able to circulate blood.
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