The Medicaid Assisted Living Waiver Program began operations in July 2006 as an effort to address the growing need for long-term care service options in the state of Ohio. This study examines the perceptions and observations of participating providers in the Ohio Medicaid Assisted Living Waiver Program and their perspective of the consumer transition experience.

This report focuses on several areas of study. We begin by presenting a profile of those Ohio Medicaid Assisted Living Waiver providers who participated in this study. Second, data is presented on successful transition indicators and the level of importance of these indicators as reported by surveyed providers. Third, we include an analysis of data on the frequency of education that waiver residents receive before admission to participating assisted living facilities as well as the importance of such education from the perspective of participating providers. Finally, we examine additional aspects of a successful transition based on participating providers' written survey responses (abstract from p. 3 of report).