2008 Conference Sponsors
Without the support of our generous sponsors, the Reinventing Quality Conference could not be as rich, diverse and inclusive. While at the conference, please visit with them and thank them for their participation!With special thanks to the U.S. Administration on Developmental Disabilities for their support of self-advocate and family participation.
GOLD SPONSORS
APS HealthcareAPS Healthcare is a leading provider of specialty healthcare solutions. The company offers customized, integrated care management and behavioral health solutions that cover more than 20 million members. APS' programs are focused on holistic management on both the mind an body, which improves health outcomes and reduces healthcare spending. APS is a leader in providing customized program design and administrative solutions that promote community integration and empowerment of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The company's services include individual assessment, consumer-directed budgeting, web-based information systems, provider training, utilization management, case management and quality improvement.
The College of Direct Support
The College of Direct Support is a collaborative work of the University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration and Elsevier. Based on the Community Supports Skills Standards, the CDS provides a learning management system and curricula for a 21st Century Direct Support Workforce.
http://www.collegeofdirectsupport.com
The Columbus Organization
The Columbus Organization is a leading provider of professional staffing and consultative services to agencies serving individuals with disabilities. Columbus offers strategic solutions --quality improvement and risk management services, residential provider training and capacity building to serve persons with intense needs, design and implementation of 24 hour crisis management systems, interim management of distressed community provider agencies, and is the country's largest recruiter of Board Certified Behavior Analysts.
http://www.columbusorg.com/
The MENTOR Network
The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services to adults and children with developmental disabilities or acquired brain injury; to children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges; and to elders in need of home care.
http://thementornetwork.com/
Therap Services, LLC
Therap Services, LLC is a web-based service organization that provides an integrated solution for documentation and communication needs of agencies providing support to people with disabilities, especially developmental disabilities. It offers an easy and efficient alternative to the immense amount of paper work that is done manually by the care providers.
http://www.therapservices.net/
SILVER SPONSOR
NavigantNavigant Consulting's experienced healthcare professionals provide innovative ideas and solutions to assist federal, state and local healthcare and human services organizations in developing new and managing existing programs. Clients look to us to provide strategic, thoughtful and practical solutions and to anticipate and respond to continuing changes in healthcare.
http://www.navigantconsulting.com/
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
Antone Aboud Associates, Inc.Antone Aboud Associates, Inc. (AAA) was created in 1998 to provide training and consulting interventions to organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Our principal consultant, Antone Aboud, received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and has more than 30 years experience providing service to organizations in the areas of risk management, investigations, supervision, management and labor relations. Recently we created a new course titled, "Incident Management, Organizational Culture and the Creation of Sustainable Change." We have also partnered with PrecisionCare, Inc. to create a state of the art incident management/investigations database.
http://www.aboud.com
Liberty Healthcare Corporation
Liberty Healthcare Corporation is committed to quality in all it does. It specializes in helping states improve support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the face of CMS, USDOJ and civil litigation. Known for effective customized solutions, Liberty manages one of the nation's newest statewide quality initiatives for the State of Indiana. It also provides government managers with turn-key or targeted facility and program management as well as a wide range of professional and direct service staffing options. Liberty has been instrumental in helping states improve services in institutions and to right size public ICFs/MR as well as provide a wide range of clinical supports to people wherever they live. All Liberty efforts are person centered and support individual self-determination.
http://www.libertyhealth.com/
PrecisionCare Software, Inc.
PrecisionCare provides specialized software and services that are designed to meet the unique needs of agencies providing Human Services. PrecisionCare Software is an easy to use, web-based application that will help to assure corporate compliance while streamlining agency processes form consumer case record management to human resources and fund raising.
http://www.precisioncare.com/