Park County approves EWA Productions contract to expand adult protection and Medicaid case-management work

Park County commissioners unanimously approved a professional services agreement on Aug. 6 with EWA Productions to support adult protection services and to implement a grant-funded program through the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

Director Susie Walton, speaking for the county’s Health and Human Services staff, told commissioners the county and EWA Productions wrote a grant with a consultant from Lake County to expand case-management capacity for complex clients on Medicaid. “We wrote a grant together to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, which as you know, handles Medicaid in Colorado,” Walton said. She said the award will allow the county to provide “extra case management type support to our complicated cases of individuals who have Medicaid.”

Walton also said EWA Productions will continue to help supervise the county’s adult-protection review team. “She helped get our program going,” Walton said of the consultant’s past work with community partners including the seniors alliance, victim services and law enforcement.

Commissioners asked for clarification about whether county funds would be required; Walton said the award is fully funded. “This is 100% funding, so there’s no county match to that,” she said. The board voted 3-0 to approve the contract and asked staff to finalize the agreement and the accompanying award letter documentation.

Walton said the county will work with other counties and with the consultant to become an approved Medicaid provider and to build program supports. The board’s action authorizes county staff to execute the professional services agreement and proceed with implementation steps required by the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.