The Secretary's office announced today appointments and changes affecting the Community Services and Programs Commission (which has been known as CSP/HCBS).
These changes will also impact the Survey, Certification and Credentialing Commission (SCC) and the Office of the Secretary. Finalizing these decisions will allow us to move forward aggressively to fill vacant positions in the commission.
- Brandt Haehn to be the new Commissioner for Community Services and Programs. Brandt, who holds a Master’s Degree from Wichita State University, comes to KDADS from the state Division of Emergency Management, where he has worked for nine years and is currently Director of Planning and Mitigation.
- Aquila Jordan is moving to the Office of the Secretary, where she will be the Director of Policy and Regulation.
- Kimberly Pierson will become director of Home- and Community-based Services.
- Oversight of the disability hospitals, Parsons State Hospital and Training Center and the Kansas Neurological Institute, will move to the CSP CommissionHCBS Quality Management Services and Licensing will move to the SCC Commission, under Commissioner Joe Ewert. Program Integrity positions will remain in CSP. To aid integration of waiver management, management of the SED waiver will move to CSP.
The appointments will become effective the week of August 10. Transition of the programs will take place over the next several weeks.
Your commissioners and program directors will have additional information for you about these changes in the coming weeks. Field staff who will affected by the move to SCC will receive more information from the commissioner.
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