Department of Medical Assistance Services
Board of Medical Assistance Services
Standards Established and Methods Used to Assure High Quality Care
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CLOSED Opened on 1/20/2020 and Ended on 3/21/2020
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| Comment Title | Commenter | |
|---|---|---|
| the bottome line EVV is wrong | Jenn Rowe | 3/21/20 11:51 pm |
| massive problem | Crystal Lloyd | 3/21/20 11:49 pm |
| tracking | Cathy Childers | 3/21/20 11:47 pm |
| before EVV we had a wonderful attendant | Amy Cornwell | 3/21/20 11:44 pm |
| who is suffering | Robin Anderson | 3/21/20 11:42 pm |
| EVV nightmare | Kelly Beeden | 3/21/20 11:40 pm |
| is it a massive ploy | Dee Moore | 3/21/20 11:39 pm |
| my son is now on a waitlist for a nursing home | Debbie Fallen | 3/21/20 11:27 pm |
| wonderful place to die ... nursing homes | Peter Whoriskey, Maria Sacchetti, Richard A. Webster | 3/21/20 11:00 pm |
| Easier for everyone, but the ones actually doing the work | Charles Brewer, employer of record | 3/21/20 9:39 pm |
| noncompliant while driving | Debra Fowler, live in caregiver | 3/21/20 7:38 pm |
| limited existence | Karin Wilson | 3/21/20 6:47 pm |
| surveillance | Jacon Metcalf | 3/21/20 6:45 pm |
| violation of Olmstead | Olmstead | 3/21/20 6:43 pm |
| there isnt fraud | Alicia Hopkins | 3/21/20 6:39 pm |
| violation of privacy rights | Kendra Scalia | 3/21/20 6:35 pm |
| if elected | Bernie Sanders | 3/21/20 6:31 pm |
| EVV is wrong | Ben Pickler | 3/21/20 5:44 pm |
| Yes. When employees must use their personal cell phones for work-related calls, Labor Code section 2 | Stormoen Law | 3/21/20 4:42 pm |
| trouble with smart phones | Ken Miller | 3/21/20 4:38 pm |
| it shouldnt cost attendants money to sign in and out | Jean Marie Brooks | 3/21/20 4:31 pm |
| EVV is illegal | United States v. Antoine Jones | 3/21/20 4:25 pm |
| If you are being gps tracking you are being searched. | Robinson Marshall | 3/21/20 4:22 pm |
| Attendants are just going to move on | J. Medina, DSP | 3/21/20 3:37 pm |
| no time off with pay, no health insurance, and pay to be tracked | Kelene Williams | 3/21/20 3:31 pm |
| I found another job | Bryan Yule | 3/21/20 3:29 pm |
| I quit | Julie Beasley | 3/21/20 3:28 pm |
| I lost waiver | Math Dyer | 3/21/20 3:27 pm |
| continued issue with the fiscal agents | Jessica Jerico | 3/21/20 2:21 pm |
| Evil evv | No EVV IL | 3/21/20 12:55 pm |
| Employer of Record should be free to decline GPS tracking | Rhonda Bowman, disability advocate | 3/21/20 12:31 pm |
| Everyone is essentially being tracked not just DSP | Lydia Moreno, MSW, QDDP, QIDP | 3/21/20 12:13 pm |
| please exempt live in providers | David Turner | 3/21/20 12:09 pm |
| EVV is a violation of our human rights. | Liberty Vittee | 3/21/20 12:07 pm |
| Fear of losing services by living a fulfilled life | Nina Mendoza, subsisting with a disability | 3/21/20 11:32 am |
| no button to submit | Sue Day, caregiver | 3/21/20 11:11 am |
| why do we need tracked when sex offenders arent ? | Gary Robinson | 3/21/20 10:35 am |
| Have to constantly sceen shot hours worked | Joe Hanson, direct support worker | 3/21/20 10:18 am |
| they blame evv app issues on us | Jamie Burke, attendant | 3/21/20 10:00 am |
| nursing home abuse | seeking justice | 3/21/20 7:23 am |
| treatment at placements | DBHDS | 3/21/20 7:13 am |
| even when they are able to ask for help they are ignored | Abigale Marie | 3/21/20 6:45 am |
| Federal statistics show that a quarter of all nursing homes nationwide are cited each year for causi | Faith Wong | 3/21/20 6:40 am |
| tracking | Brett Carlson | 3/21/20 6:36 am |
| US government funded android phones come with preinstalled unremovable malware | Dan Goodin | 3/21/20 6:09 am |
| My attendant's paycheck was shorted | Chuck Frazier, employer of record | 3/20/20 10:18 pm |
| "People enrolled in EVV programs need to seek assurances that their data will not be repurposed" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethics in Computational Science | 3/20/20 9:21 pm |
| abuse and neglect in nursing homes. | Karen Everington | 3/20/20 9:00 pm |
| not a week has gone by | Beth Monroe | 3/20/20 8:26 pm |
| more die in nursing homes from virus | Nursing homes cause early death | 3/20/20 8:00 pm |
| bad just bad | Steve Hilton | 3/20/20 7:29 pm |
| 12 million schools kids dont have wifi or internet | NBC news and a concerned parent | 3/20/20 6:51 pm |
| Mystery Hours | James Larson, employer of record | 3/20/20 6:04 pm |
| EVV and other issues | Stephen Grammer, Disabilities Advocate | 3/20/20 5:54 pm |
| hring would you take this job | T. C. | 3/20/20 5:53 pm |
| not fair to track us | Rachel Godard | 3/20/20 5:51 pm |
| I dont use smart phones ... so my client get to live in a nursing home I guess | Loretta Whitt | 3/20/20 5:50 pm |
| wishes | Michael Walling | 3/20/20 5:49 pm |
| can't hire people now | Logan Paulson | 3/20/20 5:48 pm |
| this is a massive problem please stop it | L. P. | 3/20/20 5:47 pm |
| Do not cripple those with disabilities with EVV | Elaine Geer | 3/20/20 5:46 pm |
| dont sent my brother away | Emily Klimichie | 3/20/20 5:44 pm |
| EVV | Richard Hocker | 3/20/20 5:42 pm |
| EVV needs to be simplified | JoAnne Norton | 3/20/20 5:27 pm |
| EVV is impacting my child's health | Stephanie Cox | 3/20/20 4:41 pm |
| EVV and PPL | Brenda L Cosby SEIU 512 | 3/20/20 2:26 pm |
| "Increased lifetime risk of punitive interventions from other agencies" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethics in Computational Science | 3/20/20 1:50 pm |
| To say we are disgusted, is the politest we can state at the moment | The Welch Family | 3/20/20 1:36 pm |
| problems with EVV | C Myles | 3/20/20 1:36 pm |
| nursing agencies | C. Myles | 3/20/20 1:35 pm |
| EVV | Barbara Cox | 3/20/20 1:34 pm |
| pay is low | Barbara Cox | 3/20/20 1:34 pm |
| Live ins | Barbara Cox | 3/20/20 1:32 pm |
| Red Flagging | Barbara Cox | 3/20/20 1:31 pm |
| this is what I get | John Barnes | 3/20/20 1:31 pm |
| just stop EVV | Cecilia Pavlak | 3/20/20 1:30 pm |
| EVV is sending my brother to a group home | Julie Gomez | 3/20/20 1:29 pm |
| evv | Kim Carter | 3/20/20 1:27 pm |
| EVV | Linda Valenti | 3/20/20 1:26 pm |
| how are we supposed to keep attendants now | Bill Carelson | 3/20/20 1:25 pm |
| DMAS' "one-pager" handed to those in office - possibly illegal?? | Christian Johnson, | 3/20/20 1:23 pm |
| this is a witch hunt | Carissa Ballston | 3/20/20 1:22 pm |
| EOR phone and EVV | Honor Jones | 3/20/20 1:21 pm |
| if you really cared about finding fraud | Zaichenko Family | 3/20/20 1:06 pm |
| we are not criminals | Katherine Gupta | 3/20/20 1:02 pm |
| too time consuming | Maria Evans | 3/20/20 1:01 pm |
| Silenced by fear of retribution and/or disability - EVV | Maria Justus | 3/20/20 1:00 pm |
| harming the rural resident | Valerie Lopez | 3/20/20 12:58 pm |
| your requirement to purchase a device or service | Mark Allen | 3/20/20 12:57 pm |
| This is too hard and doesnt work | Robbie Thompson | 3/20/20 12:53 pm |
| Live-ins, DMAS salaries, stakeholder meetings | Helen Trent | 3/20/20 12:52 pm |
| several issues | Keith Pendleton | 3/20/20 12:50 pm |
| fiscal agent issues | Abby Jarvis | 3/20/20 12:48 pm |
| We just want us to have a normal life | Thomas Davidson | 3/20/20 12:44 pm |
| Does this sounds like a happy life | Barry Devin | 3/20/20 12:43 pm |
| too much stress | Wendy Johnson | 3/20/20 12:42 pm |
| Public Comment- Electronic Visit Verification | disAbility Law Center of Virginia | 3/20/20 12:41 pm |
| I pay a patient pay; I want a say | Josh Romero (emp. of rec.) | 3/20/20 12:03 pm |
| Can't win for losing with the app. | Rashon Garrett, L-I, DSW | 3/20/20 11:23 am |
| Geo tracking is violating our privacy | James Parker | 3/20/20 11:00 am |
| harming caregivers | Terry White | 3/20/20 10:57 am |
| frequent issues | Sam Hoffman | 3/20/20 10:56 am |
| A. Gilbert, Cerebral Palsy | The BIG CCC = CORONA in a CAREGIVER shortage CRISIS - STOP IT. STOP EVV | 3/20/20 10:56 am |
| EVV is harmful and we are MAD | Janisa Cotton | 3/20/20 10:54 am |
| I quit over this. I hear other did too. EVV is a massive problem | Lynne Brown | 3/20/20 10:49 am |
| DMAS's harmful acts | Marta Wilson | 3/20/20 10:47 am |
| APP issues | Peggy Miller | 3/20/20 10:44 am |
| EVV massively is a problem | Kim Williams | 3/20/20 10:42 am |
| EVV it problematic | Joseph Allen | 3/20/20 10:40 am |
| EVV is too difficult and costly | Shannon Zimmerman | 3/20/20 10:38 am |
| EVV is prohibitive to care | Jim Bowman | 3/20/20 10:36 am |
| Never will so few ask so much of so many | Piper Givens | 3/20/20 10:34 am |
| 42% | dmas WEB site | 3/20/20 10:29 am |
| EVV is adding fuel to the COVID-19 fire | David Dean, MD, FIDSA | 3/20/20 10:29 am |
| EVV hurts most of the 46,700 | DMAS web site | 3/20/20 10:28 am |
| "The app purveyors say "we" need time to learn it, but it seems "they" need time to get it together" | Bobbie Lynch (live in DSW) | 3/20/20 10:08 am |
| Live-ins are the ONLY type of care that can self-isolate with the only one on one care! | Latanya Fuller, VA citizen fearing spread of Coronavirus | 3/20/20 10:02 am |
| EVV "is a punitive model that demands constant justificatory labor from the citizen" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethicis in Computational Science | 3/20/20 8:49 am |
| Suspend EVV during COVID-19 pandemic | Robert, parent | 3/20/20 7:52 am |
| DMAS wants them to die | Windra Bowman | 3/20/20 7:34 am |
| this isnt the right thing to do to the disabled or their attendants | Jonathan Price | 3/20/20 7:31 am |
| Evv makes it difficult to hire and keep attendants | Dana Clark | 3/20/20 7:30 am |
| discrimination | Rhonda King | 3/20/20 7:28 am |
| stressful and unfair | Barbara Allen | 3/20/20 7:24 am |
| app screwed up attendant not paid | David Rogers | 3/20/20 7:23 am |
| very time consuming and full of problems | Adam Rivera | 3/20/20 7:22 am |
| just wrong what DMAS expects and to add tracking on top of it | Justin Coleman | 3/20/20 7:20 am |
| 10/01/19 Data breach DBHDS & 11/25/19 data breach at CMS - How secure is location/GPS/EVV data? | Howard Ward | 3/20/20 7:18 am |
| EVV is a nightmare on top of the existing nightmare | Renee Day | 3/20/20 7:17 am |
| Fear of institutionalization due to EVV | Donna Hughes | 3/20/20 7:16 am |
| pay cut | Jenelle Embrey | 3/20/20 7:14 am |
| EVV | Angela Hart | 3/20/20 7:13 am |
| Pay is incorrect under new system | Lou Reed | 3/20/20 7:12 am |
| app doesnt work messes up the pay all the time | Joe Morgan | 3/20/20 7:10 am |
| harming those with special needs | Mary Todd | 3/20/20 7:09 am |
| this is insane | Shifflett family | 3/20/20 7:08 am |
| Very Stressful | Sherry garnett | 3/20/20 7:07 am |
| unneed stress | Robert Greenwalt disabled citizen | 3/20/20 7:05 am |
| EVIL EVV | Catherine Greenwalt | 3/20/20 7:03 am |
| this is wrong | Andrea Robinson | 3/20/20 7:01 am |
| DMASS / Training -EVV | Roxanne Willard, SEIU Local 512 | 3/20/20 1:07 am |
| My pca might quit | Brian Kim, (employer of record) | 3/19/20 10:55 pm |
| Welcome to the new World Order | Karen Reid, live in caregiver | 3/19/20 9:49 pm |
| taking away human rights | Maria Mitchell | 3/19/20 8:59 pm |
| I am not a dog ... I am a human | Joanna Greenwalt | 3/19/20 8:58 pm |
| evv messes up time | Sabrina Reese | 3/19/20 8:56 pm |
| I think DMAS has it wrong | Terry Harris, EOR | 3/19/20 8:55 pm |
| you turned my peacful home into a war zone... I hate you EVV | Michelle Knight | 3/19/20 8:53 pm |
| EVV messes up everything | Katie Ross | 3/19/20 8:51 pm |
| EVV is terrible | Courtney Wright | 3/19/20 8:50 pm |
| reconsider | Jennifer Sheets (parent) | 3/19/20 8:49 pm |
| DBHDS data breach you wont keep our information safe | Kate Finn | 3/19/20 8:48 pm |
| BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING AND TRACKING US | Lynne Holloman | 3/19/20 8:46 pm |
| costs us a lot of time | Kay Smith | 3/19/20 8:45 pm |
| it doesnt work will hurt the disabled | Alex Parish | 3/19/20 8:44 pm |
| garbage just garbage | Melinda Brooks | 3/19/20 8:43 pm |
| left out | Deb Hill | 3/19/20 8:42 pm |
| hold authentic stakeholder meetings | Sue Dailey | 3/19/20 8:21 pm |
| please get rid of this EVV | Jessica Rhodes | 3/19/20 8:20 pm |
| As a mother of my special needs son, life is stressful, EVV is EXTRA added stress | Laura Sluss | 3/19/20 8:19 pm |
| EVV nothing but trouble can't keep going like this | Laura Sluss | 3/19/20 8:18 pm |
| we still need emergenyc back up paper timessheets | Rebca Knight | 3/19/20 8:17 pm |
| ROS | Scott Cooper | 3/19/20 8:15 pm |
| STAND UP FOR US VIRGINIA | Linda Davis | 3/19/20 8:13 pm |
| app doesnt capture hours correctly | Alex Reed | 3/19/20 8:11 pm |
| not fair to live ins | R. Ray | 3/19/20 8:10 pm |
| this isnt right | Gary Miller | 3/19/20 8:09 pm |
| EVV is very difficult for a lot of the clients | Andrea King | 3/19/20 8:08 pm |
| time consuming | Doug Thompson | 3/19/20 8:06 pm |
| mess up system | Mel Penn | 3/19/20 8:00 pm |
| to many problems | Gina Hernandez | 3/19/20 7:59 pm |
| EVV problems | Chip Dodd | 3/19/20 7:58 pm |
| EVV | CDC | 3/19/20 7:55 pm |
| EVV issues | Elizabeth Peachey SEIUVA 512 | 3/19/20 5:12 pm |
| Awakened to sign the EVV | Ken Jacobs, Live in eor | 3/19/20 5:04 pm |
| Gaslighting :( | Charis Hill | 3/19/20 4:37 pm |
| had to spend $80 on a product | Josh Clements | 3/19/20 4:34 pm |
| Corporate Greed | Joyce George, CP | 3/19/20 3:26 pm |
| Same ol' routine for the state | Dan Nguyen, disabled taxpayer | 3/19/20 2:25 pm |
| evv bad | William Payne | 3/19/20 2:10 pm |
| paper time sheets | Jennifer Mooney | 3/19/20 2:09 pm |
| APP is a mess | Matt Wood | 3/19/20 2:06 pm |
| App evv | Kim Cowan | 3/19/20 2:05 pm |
| I agree with Trish Thomason comment below | Reggie Green | 3/19/20 2:04 pm |
| EVV | Trish Thomason | 3/19/20 2:02 pm |
| evv messes up pay | Andy Thomas | 3/19/20 1:58 pm |
| impossible | Michael Jaworek, EOR | 3/19/20 1:57 pm |
| new hires not showing up for weeks in the system can;t get paid | Don Adams | 3/19/20 1:56 pm |
| DSP for a day | Jahana Hayes, Congresswoman, Connecticut | 3/19/20 1:55 pm |
| I dont visit | Steven Jackson | 3/19/20 1:55 pm |
| EVV poorly planned poorly rolled out please stop it and give us our lives back | Donna Goldbranson | 3/19/20 1:53 pm |
| whole process a mess | Teresa Schultz | 3/19/20 1:51 pm |
| evv | Sally Morgan | 3/19/20 1:49 pm |
| Live Ins: best type of care available for fighting COVID-19 and other diseases | Common Sense | 3/19/20 1:35 pm |
| "Could you live as an exeception event?" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethics in Computational Science | 3/19/20 1:02 pm |
| Unable to clock in on evv app | Jean Stanley, live in care giver | 3/19/20 12:10 pm |
| EVV violates our freedom of movement and privacy | Al Burton, disabled | 3/19/20 11:37 am |
| App doesn’t accurately record hours | Geni-Que McKinney | 3/19/20 11:15 am |
| EVV... too many issues to list... | Teresa Elder | 3/19/20 11:07 am |
| EVV isolates financial burden | Kristin Byrd | 3/19/20 11:05 am |
| EVV is killing me | Donna Budway, City Center NOVA | 3/19/20 11:04 am |
| APP doent work and it cuts pay ... would you like to work under that DMAS ? | Marc Cotnoir | 3/19/20 11:03 am |
| USE of GPS | Marc Cotnoir | 3/19/20 11:02 am |
| Ridiculous intrustion | Rob Greene | 3/19/20 10:59 am |
| Live-ins forgo a salary/career to be available 24/7 and provide state's most cost effective service | Chris Richardson | 3/19/20 10:58 am |
| please listen DMAS | Michael N | 3/19/20 10:57 am |
| EVV frequently records the wrong location | Ashley Alexander | 3/19/20 10:56 am |
| please governor Northam listen | Penny Miller | 3/19/20 10:55 am |
| EVV hurts DJ | Thad Rhodes | 3/19/20 10:34 am |
| Evv Hurts DJ | Carla Rhodes | 3/19/20 10:21 am |
| Evv Hurts DJ | Lona Croker | 3/19/20 10:20 am |
| Evv hurts DJ | Rex Croker Jr | 3/19/20 10:19 am |
| Evv hurts DJ | Rex Croker | 3/19/20 10:18 am |
| EVV hurts DJ | Chloe Croker | 3/19/20 10:17 am |
| Evv hurts DJ | Megan Croker | 3/19/20 10:16 am |
| Evv hurts DJ | Hillary Gomez | 3/19/20 10:11 am |
| This is a nightmare | Anna J | 3/19/20 10:10 am |
| Dear evv activist | Keshawn Little, FASD | 3/18/20 10:54 pm |
| LIVE INS HAVE PROVEN THEIR METTLE WITH THE CORONAVIRUS | Chris Harvey, Virginian | 3/18/20 8:52 pm |
| EVV | Tony SEIU | 3/18/20 5:55 pm |
| Tired of dealing with EVV app | Nicole Garza, attendant | 3/18/20 4:05 pm |
| Can't sign in | Jody Fernandez, eor | 3/18/20 2:19 pm |
| App does not accurately record hours | Jamie Browne SEIU-VA.512 | 3/18/20 1:59 pm |
| You are giving healthcare and benefits to the EVV vendor industry, but not to caregivers | Chuck Hansen, Defender | 3/18/20 1:10 pm |
| can't hire people | Stacey B | 3/18/20 12:43 pm |
| Two clocks running | Riley Morrison, attendant | 3/18/20 10:56 am |
| No place to put hours on app | Tina Alvarez, employer | 3/18/20 10:39 am |
| Infected | Ralph | 3/18/20 9:36 am |
| Corona wake up call. Live Ins save VA a lot of $ and lives vs. group settings. NOW you know. | Virginia taxpayer | 3/18/20 9:07 am |
| In wake of Coronavirus, exempt Live Ins now. Stop playing games | Melissa Howell, care recipient | 3/18/20 8:31 am |
| Persons on waiver are already managing with a disability. Do not cripple them with EVV | Amanda McCoy, disabled citizen | 3/18/20 8:19 am |
| EVV discriminates against elderly, hispanic, and the poor | pew | 3/18/20 7:27 am |
| 5g unsafe | Blumenthal | 3/18/20 6:07 am |
| So, how my week is going with evv | Tanisha Bishop, eor | 3/17/20 10:43 pm |
| Stuck at home because of the EVV. Corona? What's that? | TO'd | 3/17/20 10:27 pm |
| The state is deaf to hearing those with disabilities and giving them their rightful forum | Fred Meyer, disability advocate | 3/17/20 9:39 pm |
| Evv bad | Why does dmas want us dead? | 3/17/20 6:31 pm |
| Thinking | Concerned | 3/17/20 6:19 pm |
| Our survival means less to those who wrote legislation for evv than making money off us | Melissa Banks | 3/17/20 5:02 pm |
| Now hiring attendants | Erica Johnston, employer | 3/17/20 2:21 pm |
| Rather than targeting, there has to be some extension of trust given to the majority | David Williamson, disability advocate | 3/17/20 11:24 am |
| Please post pone EVV | Personal Care Provider | 3/17/20 11:02 am |
| EVV extension | Justin Goodman | 3/17/20 11:00 am |
| Suspend EVV during pandemic | Amanda, parent | 3/17/20 7:50 am |
| Lenny Richards, grandparent | Civil rights disregarded | 3/16/20 8:50 pm |
| Who is at fault? The one with the coercion or the one forced to make a decision? | employer of record | 3/16/20 7:07 pm |
| Discontinuing the use of the EVV system for live in attendants. | Ananda Chew | 3/16/20 5:28 pm |
| group homes are unsafe | Disability Law Center of Virginia | 3/16/20 2:38 pm |
| Prosecution due to tech glitches | K. Montgomery, attendant | 3/16/20 12:10 pm |
| Agency providers not showing during pandemic | Lisa Olsen | 3/16/20 12:09 pm |
| EVV is no time saver | James Oliver, direct support worker | 3/16/20 11:00 am |
| EVV needs to be postponed | C. Taylor | 3/16/20 8:16 am |
| Exempt the family caregiver from evv - we have a caregiver crisis during a Pandemic | RUSS CHAPMAN, VA VOTER | 3/15/20 11:02 pm |
| "It, therefore, becomes clear how coercive a simple "verification" process can be" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethics in Computational Science | 3/15/20 10:15 pm |
| self isolation | CDC | 3/15/20 9:57 pm |
| OMG the governer just acknowledged people dont have internet in their homes | Ralph N. | 3/15/20 3:20 pm |
| get them out of the nursing homes | Cathy Johnson | 3/15/20 2:59 pm |
| EOR can't approve my time | DSP LIVE IN | 3/15/20 1:51 pm |
| Exempt live in | Mark Peters, M. sclerosis | 3/15/20 1:36 pm |
| Time sheet erased | M. Wheeler, EOR | 3/15/20 8:57 am |
| What if Caregivers everywhere were to strike against EVV during this Pandemic? | Gina Castillo, caregiver | 3/15/20 8:31 am |
| "The health of Virginians continues to be my absolute top priority" | Gov. Ralph Northam | 3/14/20 10:32 pm |
| Lowest common denominator care | MIchelle Vasquez, care recipient | 3/14/20 10:05 pm |
| "Who is really causing fraud to occur?" | Noah's Miracle Blog | 3/14/20 9:57 pm |
| hate based | Steve Carr | 3/14/20 9:55 pm |
| star of David | how this is like what hitler did to jews | 3/14/20 9:37 pm |
| apps are messing up this weekend too | Beth Jones | 3/14/20 9:35 pm |
| disrespect | from the willobrook movie | 3/14/20 8:25 pm |
| Always end up on portal | Billie Carr, E.O.R. | 3/14/20 2:07 pm |
| No Visitors to nursing homes | Clark Midcock | 3/14/20 1:06 pm |
| Coronavirus Pandemic - China's One child policy - EVV | Scott Schmidt, one of the lucky ones | 3/14/20 10:45 am |
| So many people with agencies are putting them up for sale | Chas. Ryan, RN | 3/14/20 10:23 am |
| why EVV is unfair and wrong | You all are wrong | 3/14/20 9:23 am |
| horrific | somone concerned | 3/14/20 12:01 am |
| EVV EXEMPTION NEEDED for LIVE IN/FAMILY CAREGIVERS | Jacqueline Nichol | 3/13/20 4:57 pm |
| Times don't match what sent in on app | J. Gutierrez | 3/13/20 12:04 pm |
| evv delays pay/providers quit | Sheila Fields, employer | 3/13/20 10:56 am |
| Not one high ups come out behind desk while I worked for free | Veroni Lawson, attendant | 3/13/20 9:54 am |
| Can't get the answers we need | R McMillion | 3/13/20 8:49 am |
| Person Centered Placation | Jasmine Franklin, disability advocate | 3/12/20 11:35 pm |
| "Those Managing tax payer dollars in Medicaid funded programs are dodging public audits" | Noah's Miracle Blog | 3/12/20 11:09 pm |
| Even harder to find help | JR Embrey | 3/12/20 10:18 pm |
| shout out to Sentara | caring person | 3/12/20 6:59 pm |
| monthly monitoring | MIMS | 3/12/20 4:44 pm |
| MCO wants me to die | Steve Way | 3/12/20 4:41 pm |
| just wanted to show DMAS we already have 2 homevisitis a month | Michael Doe | 3/12/20 3:53 pm |
| Efficiency. NO matter the Casualties | Sam Kelley, Emp. of Record | 3/12/20 3:23 pm |
| "There is a shared responsbility for supports and choices" NO COERCION; NO FORCING; NO BULLYING | DBHDS Department of Behavrioral Health and Developmental Services | 3/12/20 1:34 pm |
| If I go over 40 on app, it subtracts a day's pay | Ashley Peters, attendant | 3/12/20 10:50 am |
| Our family's rights to privacy are voided in our home because we have a disabled child in our home | Noah's Miracle Blog | 3/12/20 10:07 am |
| Locations not accurate | Ray T | 3/12/20 9:39 am |
| The evv apps still don’t work | Molly Rickbaugh | 3/12/20 7:26 am |
| Evv is wrong | Rebekah Weinstein | 3/12/20 7:21 am |
| 22 dead at one nursing home | Wes Wilson | 3/12/20 7:18 am |
| CD program has the most affordable and only true one-on-one ratio, and EVV is eroding it | Pete Austin, Caregiver | 3/12/20 12:03 am |
| "The very fact that I am alive today to write this piece means my employees did their jobs" | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disability and healthcare policy analyst | 3/11/20 11:36 pm |
| you know the nursing homes will kill off people cause no one is there to check on them | crying | 3/11/20 9:10 pm |
| TRAPPED IN HELL | Donald T | 3/11/20 9:08 pm |
| "The experience, talents, and contributions of individuals, families, and communities are supported" | DBHDS Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services | 3/11/20 3:21 pm |
| Evv | Loretta Jones, Seiuva 512 | 3/11/20 3:10 pm |
| EVV App do not accurately record hours. | Azza Van de Castle | 3/11/20 2:57 pm |
| evv is wrong | Teresa Elder | 3/11/20 2:43 pm |
| evv doesnt work | Robert Green | 3/11/20 2:41 pm |
| exempt live in providers | Chris Richardson | 3/11/20 2:39 pm |
| EVV IS wrong | Ashley Alexander | 3/11/20 2:37 pm |
| please listen to us governor | Penny Miller | 3/11/20 2:36 pm |
| Music Within | the movie | 3/11/20 2:34 pm |
| so excited to get waiver | Michael O Kief | 3/11/20 2:26 pm |
| EVV is a hardship | Henry Lipnicksky | 3/11/20 2:25 pm |
| EVV us crao | Jennifer Chapmen | 3/11/20 2:24 pm |
| EVV us a burden to me | Amanda Uskavitch | 3/11/20 2:22 pm |
| people die faster in nursing homes | CDC | 3/11/20 2:16 pm |
| this is wrong | Steve | 3/11/20 1:56 pm |
| EVV is added stress | Karen Overstreet | 3/11/20 1:53 pm |
| this is a nightmare | Laurence Pittman | 3/11/20 1:52 pm |
| the death of consumer directed care in Virginia | Leigha Zin | 3/11/20 1:51 pm |
| DBHDS Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services | "Personal Choice and Control are Supported" | 3/11/20 1:12 pm |
| What if, one time, the app overpays me? | Tamyca Sims, DCW | 3/11/20 1:02 pm |
| Victims of crimes when not supported | Darius Cline | 3/11/20 12:16 pm |
| Evv harms the disabled | Med plus | 3/11/20 12:11 pm |
| Evv leaves us without services | WHO | 3/11/20 12:09 pm |
| No visitors allowed to residents trapped in nursing homes | Matt Ritchel | 3/11/20 12:06 pm |
| Seven hours of calling | E.G.M. Chavez, parent | 3/11/20 11:46 am |
| Difficulty getting answers and guidance | Taylor | 3/11/20 10:33 am |
| 2019 TX HHS HIPAA violation, CMS 2019 breach, 2019 DBHDS breach, etc...How safe is a cheap app? | Joshua Elliott, concerned participant & E.O.R. | 3/11/20 9:12 am |
| Last 3 pages of Cures Act about EVV were "slid" in | Diana Degette, U.S. Representative for Colorado's 1st Congressional Distric | 3/11/20 8:55 am |
| "My house is not an outpatient hospital or nursing home." | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disability and healthcare policy analyst | 3/11/20 8:27 am |
| THIS IS A MASSIVE PAIN | Tamara Bennit | 3/11/20 7:14 am |
| another morning | Xaiver Potts | 3/11/20 6:24 am |
| Nothing works | Terry Lawrence, Employer | 3/10/20 11:16 pm |
| "You are sending the message that our children need to be monitored and protected against us." | Noah's Miracle Blog | 3/10/20 10:59 pm |
| That hurts. That hurts,” the student can be heard saying in a panicked voice. “Stop. Stop for real.” | Heather Adames | 3/10/20 9:37 pm |
| Elizabeth Warren is out of the race, but advocates hope her disability plan is the new standard | Jeanine Santucci | 3/10/20 9:33 pm |
| disability advocate rallied | CBS | 3/10/20 9:31 pm |
| I think it is wrong they are tracking us | Jamie Davis | 3/10/20 9:27 pm |
| app problems | Connie Byrd | 3/10/20 9:25 pm |
| care giver crisis | Ann McDarrius | 3/10/20 7:36 pm |
| inhumane and uncivil ways | William and Mary University | 3/10/20 7:29 pm |
| lets be advocates not the medical model of taking crums | Andrew Pulrang | 3/10/20 7:27 pm |
| at least 10 nursing homes infected | MARTHA BELLISLE and RACHEL LA CORTE, | 3/10/20 6:52 pm |
| EVV HARMS ME | Jonathan Legget | 3/10/20 6:49 pm |
| laughing behind the scenes | fed up | 3/10/20 6:35 pm |
| Targeting the Disabled | Greene, E.O. Record | 3/10/20 6:15 pm |
| From Snake Pits to Cash Cows | Paul J. Castellani | 3/10/20 6:12 pm |
| lets track everyone cause everyone uses some kind of federal benifit | Annabelle Pittman | 3/10/20 6:04 pm |
| ADAPT please dont take us out of the community | ADAPT | 3/10/20 6:01 pm |
| 4th amendment violation EVV | Justice for ALL | 3/10/20 5:58 pm |
| I have CCC+ waiver and I have been on the DD waiver waitlist for 16 years | Michael H | 3/10/20 5:39 pm |
| Difficultly with evv smart phones | Annon | 3/10/20 5:26 pm |
| I was staying in Virginia for waiver | Allison Jordan | 3/10/20 5:05 pm |
| They assumed everyone had a perfect connection and reliable source of internet service | Weaver Family | 3/10/20 3:45 pm |
| Getting help for evv app. is a brick wall | Amy Carpenter, emp. of rec. | 3/10/20 12:38 pm |
| "the disability community is clear: We refuse to be treated as patients in our own homes" | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disability and healthcare policy analyst | 3/10/20 12:27 pm |
| Agencies struggling to comply | A concerned citizen | 3/10/20 12:00 pm |
| Group care isn’t safe | Jane Doe | 3/10/20 11:58 am |
| "EVV establishes distrust as a baseline in a relationship that is fundamentally about trust" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethics in Computational Science | 3/10/20 9:34 am |
| what group homes are like | Lawrence Journal World | 3/10/20 6:29 am |
| after Willowbrook life didnt get better for many | The New York Times | 3/10/20 6:24 am |
| another person abuse in a group home | ZAK WELLERMAN | 3/10/20 6:18 am |
| none of the fiscal agents are good | Chaunette Bowling Stokes | 3/10/20 6:03 am |
| so many issues | Anja Mierek | 3/10/20 6:01 am |
| Include Respect I self direct | Chris Serres | 3/10/20 5:32 am |
| Care worker raped and impregnated two disabled women at community centre, police say | Justin Jouvenal | 3/10/20 5:23 am |
| liberty, dignity, and privacy! | Dianne Crawford | 3/10/20 5:11 am |
| why this law was included follow the money | Andreah Forbes | 3/10/20 5:09 am |
| GPS | Patti Panzeriono | 3/10/20 5:05 am |
| cost of use burden | Corey F | 3/10/20 5:03 am |
| nothing about us without us | Stephen Bachner | 3/10/20 4:57 am |
| praying God will protect us | Christian | 3/10/20 4:53 am |
| Way to go turning a 57k services plan into a 107k plan due to EVV | Carrie Armstrong, Employer of Record | 3/9/20 11:15 pm |
| smart device | Quinten Sheilds | 3/9/20 10:40 pm |
| Administrative Costs to Implement Live-In Caretaker Exemption | dmas | 3/9/20 10:38 pm |
| "Family, friends, and people in the community are VERY important and at the center of planning" | DBHDS Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services | 3/9/20 10:24 pm |
| I won't go back to a nursing home | you dont care anyway | 3/9/20 10:10 pm |
| EVV IS BAD | ANERA J BROOKS | 3/9/20 9:39 pm |
| please pass this | Brian Heald | 3/9/20 9:28 pm |
DMAS is full of 
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concerned | 3/9/20 9:14 pm |
| free our people | National ADAPT | 3/9/20 8:46 pm |
| Please God | Prayer to God | 3/9/20 6:49 pm |
| Virginia is the current standard of leaving everyone out | Anon | 3/9/20 6:47 pm |
| "California is the current standard of robust stakeholder engagement." | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disablity and healthcare policy analyst | 3/9/20 5:23 pm |
| I dont have a smart phone and I am not smart enought to use one | Michael Emersion | 3/9/20 4:31 pm |
| what happened to me today | Les T | 3/9/20 3:46 pm |
| I am part of the 12% | too terrified to give cause you will take my son to a group home | 3/9/20 3:44 pm |
| "vision 2020 includes stopping implementation of Electronic Visit Verification" | National ADAPT Leadership | 3/9/20 3:12 pm |
| "If you are EXTREMELY LUCKY, you may be able to contain Coronavirus" (my parent!) | Professor Gabriel Leung | 3/9/20 2:29 pm |
| app isnt working again | to frighten DMAS will come after me | 3/9/20 12:34 pm |
| EVV stands to violate every "invasion of privacy"category that exists in Modern Tort Law | Noah's Miracle Blog | 3/9/20 12:26 pm |
| "Selections" to clock in? | Tracy Fox, live in caregiver | 3/9/20 11:51 am |
| How will I keep my niece out of residential placement? | Spectrum (PWS)/family caregiver | 3/9/20 11:36 am |
| Exempt my family. I don't want to be caught up in Corona Pandemic in a nursing home | participant/consumer | 3/9/20 10:10 am |
| Location/Rural Areas/April 1st | C. McMillion | 3/9/20 9:25 am |
| Always need to adjust time for multiple attendants | J. Harper, emp. of rec. | 3/9/20 8:45 am |
| My paycheck is always less when I use EVV | Anon | 3/9/20 12:02 am |
| EXEMPT LIVE INS V. INCLUDING LIVE INS | Sandra Ruiz, EOR | 3/8/20 11:23 pm |
| Guilty until proven guilty | Rich Andrews, Live In | 3/8/20 10:28 pm |
| "With EVV, caregivers are providing a record of private & constitutionally protected behavior" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethics in Computational Science | 3/8/20 10:13 pm |
| "EVV has already pushed many employees out of the home care industry" | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disability and healthcare policy analyst | 3/8/20 9:57 pm |
| "We Believe a Good life is best led by the voice of the individual" | DBHDS Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services | 3/8/20 9:45 pm |
| society think we are frauds | Disability Legal Studies Articles | 3/8/20 9:37 pm |
| she would still be able to do this with EVV (but not with the 2 social workers that already visit ea | Nicole Acevedo | 3/8/20 9:24 pm |
| Nothing About Us Without Us | Jame Charlton | 3/8/20 8:41 pm |
| adequate support gives us success | Open Society Foundation | 3/8/20 8:35 pm |
| marginalizes | Open Society Foundation | 3/8/20 8:33 pm |
| everyone can live in the community with the right supports | open society foundation | 3/8/20 8:32 pm |
| what is an institution | Open Society Foundations | 3/8/20 8:30 pm |
| I matter | James Thacker | 3/8/20 7:48 pm |
| Ada generation needs to worry | Advocate | 3/8/20 7:09 pm |
| Just heard of yet another family placing a child in a facility over EVV | Loretta Comer | 3/8/20 2:40 pm |
| trouble with app last weekend happened at my home too | Stacy Buryne | 3/8/20 2:05 pm |
| app troubles | carrie Jenkins | 3/8/20 2:01 pm |
| DMAS APP was a mess last weekend not much better this weekend | Gloria Johnson | 3/8/20 2:00 pm |
| hurting the vulnerable | Dan B. | 3/8/20 1:57 pm |
| leap day weekend | Alex Pauley | 3/8/20 1:55 pm |
| time 3 care app was down last weekend | Andrea Kiff | 3/8/20 1:53 pm |
| when getting error code use the portal | PPL | 3/8/20 1:52 pm |
| same error code | Robyn Levin | 3/8/20 1:50 pm |
| Martia we got same error code | Cindy Emefa | 3/8/20 1:48 pm |
| error message for time4care AGAIN | Martia Clark | 3/8/20 1:47 pm |
| negative impact | Blue Ridge Opertunities | 3/8/20 1:39 pm |
| tax problems with CDCN | pam stacy | 3/8/20 1:21 pm |
| illegal search to not end up in a nursing home | Rachel Day | 3/8/20 12:53 pm |
| medicaid laps because of Magellan case worker | Lici Khalici | 3/8/20 12:33 pm |
| celltrak not working again | Besty Seitz | 3/8/20 12:30 pm |
| App not working. | Rindy May | 3/8/20 12:29 pm |
| APP screwing up again | Linda Ebersole | 3/8/20 12:28 pm |
| CDCN suggestions dont help | April Viers | 3/8/20 12:27 pm |
| Telephony messed up too | Rachel Day | 3/8/20 12:18 pm |
| Residents cower | By Benjamin Weiser and Danny Hakim | 3/8/20 9:28 am |
| group home death | TONY GUGLIOTTA | 3/8/20 9:20 am |
| crimes goes unreported | OIG | 3/8/20 9:16 am |
| all of the news abuse in group homes | US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General | 3/8/20 9:11 am |
| residents often experience serioys injuries in group homes | HHS, as well as from the Department of Justice | 3/8/20 9:10 am |
| Risk of serious Harm in group homes | US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General | 3/8/20 9:08 am |
| Another man abused in a group home | CBS news | 3/8/20 8:58 am |
| loosing services because of EVV | Carol Griffin | 3/8/20 8:51 am |
| group home issues | Judy Foss | 3/8/20 8:48 am |
| DMAS doesnt understand and isnt trying to.. EVV doesnt work for consumer directed | DMAS agency statment | 3/8/20 8:38 am |
| Alex had wonderful care until his long time provider retired | Theresa Vargas | 3/8/20 8:32 am |
| house arrest | Wally Trollman | 3/8/20 3:05 am |
| you are excluding us | Virginians with disabilities | 3/8/20 12:50 am |
| I am supposed to have rights | Shelby Switzer | 3/8/20 12:44 am |
| Virginia violates the individual’s human rights, legal rights, and Constitutional rights. | disability law web site | 3/8/20 12:37 am |
| issues with app | Karrie Houk | 3/7/20 11:53 pm |
| Plenty are fearful of retaliation for speaking out about EVV harm | Scott Lane, PTSD | 3/7/20 10:56 pm |
| "Private EVV data is repurposable and can be used to harm or profit" | Jake Metcalf, Researcher in the Law & Ethics in Computational Science | 3/7/20 10:30 pm |
| nothing about us without us | Daje Decue | 3/7/20 10:20 pm |
| discriminating | Mark Shumpert | 3/7/20 10:18 pm |
| poop and vomit | Tina DeWeese | 3/7/20 10:15 pm |
| "EVV ignores the independent living philosophy" | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disability and healthcare policy analyst | 3/7/20 10:14 pm |
| EVV is imprisonment | Derrick Hamrick | 3/7/20 9:32 pm |
| APP malfunction | Shawn Adams | 3/7/20 9:05 pm |
| APP problems AGAIN | Krista Ford | 3/7/20 9:03 pm |
| App broken again | Dawn Alexander | 3/7/20 9:00 pm |
| why cant we post picture here .. could show you how badly EVV is | Leiah Zoey | 3/7/20 8:55 pm |
| church tonight made me think about how DMAS is treating us | Devonte Hart | 3/7/20 8:52 pm |
| EVV | Jenelle Embrey, Caregiver | 3/7/20 6:50 pm |
| corrdinating our deaths | Troy Atkinson | 3/7/20 5:20 pm |
| no way this is saving DMAS money | Amanda Holtz | 3/7/20 5:13 pm |
| Celltrak broken again | Karen Greenwald | 3/7/20 5:03 pm |
| Celltrak messed up again | Nancy Agnew | 3/7/20 5:02 pm |
| Cell Trak not working again | Betsy Seitz | 3/7/20 4:17 pm |
| What is dmas going to do | Susan Johns | 3/7/20 3:40 pm |
| Evv stopping care | Angie Huff | 3/7/20 3:37 pm |
| exempt live ins | Maggie Bradley, live in | 3/7/20 3:00 pm |
| Error messages | Dawn Roberts | 3/7/20 12:49 pm |
| Broken phone | Cunningham, Nancy, EOR | 3/7/20 11:35 am |
| "Individual Choices and descriptions of a good life are respected and followed" (not with EVV) | DBHDS (dept. of behavioral health and development services) | 3/7/20 10:38 am |
| Late payment | Tamika Jones | 3/7/20 10:19 am |
| "EVV violates constitutional rights to privacy" | Kendra Scalia, MPP, Disablity and healthcare policy analyst | 3/7/20 9:55 am |
| "EVV successful for everyone"?? | Karen Hart, epilepsy | 3/7/20 9:43 am |
| would be sufficiently burdensome to prompt the elimination of the service. | interesting agency statement | 3/7/20 8:51 am |
| why does DMAS cut group settings slack but not families that care ? | another agency statement quoate | 3/7/20 8:49 am |
| The EVV system must be implemented in a manner that is minimally burdensome and HIPAA compliant. | Agency statement quotes | 3/7/20 8:47 am |
| false statements | from the agency statement | 3/7/20 8:45 am |
| you said you would amen regulations | Stephanie Davis | 3/7/20 8:40 am |
| lots of mothers care and will keep their children as safe as they can until they die | William Westhoven | 3/7/20 8:29 am |
| nursing homes a crappy place to wait to die, quicker then you would have | Elizabeth Koh, Jon Kamp, Melanie Evans | 3/7/20 8:26 am |
| Exempt Live In Attendants/EVV is a Burden | Christine | 3/7/20 5:12 am |
| EVV systems still not working properly, and costly. | Caring Hands Home Healthcare Services | 3/7/20 4:08 am |
| "EVV systems erode the intent of consumer-directed services" | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disability and healthcare policy analyst | 3/6/20 9:05 pm |
| Stale data?? | Jeff Snyder, EOR | 3/6/20 5:37 pm |
| why is it ok to step on the disabled | Carolyn Maloney | 3/6/20 5:31 pm |
| CUTS and EVV want us to walk away | Lisa P | 3/6/20 5:24 pm |
| Long commute to the kitchen | Pete Duncan, live in | 3/6/20 5:23 pm |
| Even he knows the pressure and hardship this EVV thing is causing | David Thompson, attendant | 3/6/20 4:08 pm |
| The ebb is too hard for me | Ms. Carroll, cancer | 3/6/20 3:47 pm |
| "EVV systems demand consumers and/or employees pay costs" | Kendra Scalia, MPP, disability and healthcare policy analyst | 3/6/20 3:37 pm |
| EVV doesn't capture all live ins do | Mary, Olson, Multiple Myeloma | 3/6/20 3:21 pm |
| please exempt live in providers | Felisha W | 3/6/20 2:55 pm |
| EVV not working | Jess Brown | 3/6/20 2:55 pm |
| EVV | Lynn Douglas | 3/6/20 2:54 pm |
| DMAS is being vindictive | Anita L | 3/6/20 2:54 pm |
| EVV | Barbara Miller | 3/6/20 2:53 pm |
| Exempt live ins | Jeannett C | 3/6/20 2:53 pm |
| EVV | Melissa Floyd | 3/6/20 2:52 pm |
| give live ins a break | Susie Smith | 3/6/20 2:51 pm |
| EVV is bad | Tonya S | 3/6/20 2:51 pm |
| EVV | Nadie Owens | 3/6/20 2:50 pm |
| no to EVV | Naura F | 3/6/20 2:50 pm |
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