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It appears to me that most of the providers here in NC have a more willingness to provide congregate care vs inclusive community living.

January 27, 2023

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Speaker: Corye Dunn, Disability Rights NC

It appears to me that most of the providers here in NC have a more willingness to provide congregate care vs inclusive community living.

Corye Dunn: Are providers in north Carolina more willing to provide congregate care versus inclusive community living? I don't know that that's true as a matter of principle, but we have structured our payment systems so that it is much more sustainable on the provider side to provide congregate services than to provide more individualized, community based services. And we can change those policies to better facilitate community based care and individualized plans and to minimize the state's reliance on congregate care. I don't think it's a matter of whether North Carolina has a different kind or range of providers than other states do so much as that. We have created rules in our state that make it much more likely that someone who wants to provide services to people with I DD will choose a congregate format because it is um better supported in our funding streams and our policies.



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