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Health Facilities Commission seeks licensure-system funding, additional staff as complaints and recertification backlog rise
Summary
Logan Grant, executive director of the Health Facilities Commission, told the House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee that the commission received $4 million in nonrecurring funds for a new licensure system and funding for accounting positions to aid reporting to CMS, but that several higher-priority staffing requests were not included in the governor’s proposed budget.
Logan Grant, executive director of the Health Facilities Commission, told the House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee that the commission received $4 million in nonrecurring funds for a new licensure system and funding for accounting positions to aid reporting to CMS, but that several higher-priority staffing requests were not included in the governor’s proposed budget.
Grant said the $4 million would replace the commission’s current piggyback use of the Department of Health’s system with a licensure system tailored to the commission’s regulatory needs. He also said accounting positions funded through the governor’s office will be housed in the Department of Finance and Administration’s Division of Accounts to help the commission draw down federal funds.
Grant outlined several unfunded requests: four positions to…
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