Elevated COVID-19 Mortality Risk Among Recipients of Home and Community-Based Services: A Case for Prioritizing Vaccination for This Population

February 11, 2021
H. Stephen Kaye, Ph.D., published a paper setting out his analysis of mortality risk among recipients of home and community-based services. He finds that HCBS recipients between 45 and 64 years of age appear to be at greater mortality risk than the general community-resident population between 65 and 74 years of age. He concludes that this elevated mortality risk justifies increasing the vaccination priority for HCBS recipients under age 65 to equal that of the general population age 65 and older. [...]

Comments on California HCBS Statewide Transition Plan

October 27, 2014
Update: On December 8, 2014 DREDF and a number of other advocacy organizations (CFILC, California's SCDD, Congress of California Seniors, DRC, NHeLP, and NSCLC) submitted a second set of comments on the latest draft of California's HCBS transition plan. California is expected to submit it's final HCBS transition plan to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by December 19 or so.