March 17th 2025

From Twogether Consulting!

Hello Everyone!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I am disappointed that Texas wildflowers aren’t out yet, as we desperately need rain in many places in the state. I do hope we are past the winter weather finally. I know many of you are happy we have longer days now for the Spring.  Please join me for our webinar for March 31st, 2025 ($65/person).  “HCS Survey Process:  What To Expect & Tools For Prevention of Violations” 2025.   We do offer discounted rates for groups.  Sheila Hanson and I will be presenting. Contact Meghan Jones at: meghanjones.tx@gmail.com to register.  You may also use this “Quick Pay Button” to purchase the webinar.

Join us for our live 2-day training in Austin at the PPAT Office (Private Provider’s Association of Texas) for HCS Care Coordination (Case Management) to March 27th & 28th, 2025.   Seating is limited, so please contact Megan Jones as soon as possible if you want to sign up. You can ask Meghan for an invoice or use this “Quick Pay Button” to purchase this 2-day live training.

Twogether Consulting has a few “pop-up” live webinars for HCS/TxHmL nurses, as well as an in-person training in Austin, Tx for March on the website.  I will be posting a session in Dallas for the end of April, hopefully, for 2-day care coordination training for the HCS program.

We plan on adding some live training sessions for Nurses in HCS/TxHmL programs in the Houston or Austin area. Please give us some feedback on what location and what nursing topics you are interested in: You may email us at: info@twogetherconsulting.com 

We do have a variety of pre-recorded webinar trainings for program managers, case managers and nurses and direct care,  so feel free to email us at info@twogetherconsulting.com to inquire. Let us know what areas of training you would like, to help us plan future sessions.

Here are just a few of the recent pre-recorded webinar trainings available for purchase:  “Admission, Post-Admission & Other Follow-Up Requirements-HCS Program”, ICAPs/LON’s/IDRC’s-ICF Program” (Also have for HCS program), “Development of The Comprehensive Nursing Assessment & Nursing Service Plan-HCS or ICF”, “Best Practices For HCS Providers: How To Remain In Compliance With TAC Ch 565”, “Role & Responsbilities of The Q”,  “Surrogate Decision Making Process, Rights Restrictions & Immediate Jeopardy-ICF Program”, “Licensed ISS Providers: What You Really Need To Know.”, We also have a ore-recorded 5 part Care Coordination/Case Management series as well for the HCS program. All of these sessions and many more come with handouts as well as the link to the pre-recorded session

Please see our “Updates” section of the website for the latest news for IDD providers.

 Please feel free to e-mail us or contact Meghan Jones to schedule an appointment for consultation.  We have consultants available to provide consultation for HCS, TxHmL, ICF, (some CLASS as well) and we also provide some consultation for AMH-HCBS and YES Waiver.  Please contact us directly for your care coordination, QIDP, direct care and nursing needs or training at info@twogetherconsulting.com or you may contact our assistant Meghan Jones at meghanjones.tx@gmail.com
We are happy to say that we will continue to provide whatever assistance we can with questions you may have, especially concerning HCS/TxHmL Care Coordination, Nursing, or general survey requirements from LTCR department in these programs.  We continue to assist those working with the ICF/IID program as well. We are currently providing both on-site in-person training at this time as well as in-person live training that is open to all providers.
FYI-We do still provide “mentoring” assistance for program managers, case managers, and especially for nurses.  We continue to provide nursing trainings and we can refer you out to our partner RN consultants, Nursing Innovations, who provide IDD nursing consultation, mentoring and/or training for HCS, TxHmL and ICF.  If you have new staff or nurses who need training quicker than classes posted on the calendar, please let me know and we do offer some of our previously recorded sessions for a low cost which includes the handouts.   We are happy to schedule one-on-one training sessions and mentoring with one of our consultants.  We can also refer you to another resource, if more appropriate.  Twogether Consulting also continues to provide assistance with applying to become an HCS/TxHmL waiver provider and we can assist with applying to become an AMH-HCBS or YES Waiver provider.
For HCS Providers who want to purchase specific services and/or specific forms we have on our website, may go to the following link “purchase services” page. If you are having issues downloading forms, please feel free to contact us at info@twogetherconsulting.com and I will be happy to send them to you.
Thank you,
Julie Blacklock/ Owner & IDD Waiver Consultant