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PLEASE NOTE: The HCLA Long-Term Care Manual is also available as a single, searchable PDF. (May 2026)

Management Bulletins can be found here: HCS Management Bulletins


Chapter Title Revised
All Chapters 08/2026
Chapter 1 LTC Manual Roles and Responsibilities 09/2026
Chapter 2 Records Management 04/2025
Chapter 2a Privacy 04/2025
Chapter 2b Legal Holds and Discovery 04/2025
Chapter 3 Assessment and Care Planning 09/2026
Chapter 4 Social Service Intake 09/2026
Chapter 5 Case Management 09/2026
Chapter 5a Washington Roads 05/2026
Chapter 6 Housing Resources for HCS Clients 03/2025
Chapter 6a HCS Subsidies and GOSH Services 09/2026
Chapter 6b Interim Housing Resources (Motel Interim Stay for Transitions & Emergency Rental Assistance) 09/2026
Chapter 6c Permanent Federal Vouchers 09/2026
Chapter 6d Housing and Service Coordination 09/2026
Chapter 7 Intro to Medicaid, State Plan, and 1915c waivers 05/2026
Chapter 7a Financial Eligibility for Core Programs 09/2026
Chapter 7b Community First Choice (CFC) 09/2026
Chapter 7c MPC 11/2025
Chapter 7d COPES 05/2026
Chapter 7e New Freedom 09/2026
Chapter 7f Residential Support Waiver 09/2026
Chapter 7g State-funded Programs 05/2026
Chapter 7h Appendices 08/2025
Chapter 8 Residential Services 09/2026
Chapter 9 Hospital Assessment 09/2026
Chapter 10 Nursing Facility Case Management and Relocation 09/2026
Chapter 11 Consumer Directed Employer 05/2026
Chapter 12 Adult Day Services 05/2026
Chapter 13 Nurse Delegation 11/2023
Chapter 14 Legal Services 09/2025
Chapter 15
Chapter 15a Communicating with Individuals with LEP & SD, Guidance for AAA Staff 11/2025
Chapter 15b Communicating with Individuals with LEP & SD Guidance for ALTSA and DDA Staff 09/2026
Chapter 16 Assistive Technology – State only Fund 08/2025
Chapter 17 Family and Kinship Caregiver Support Programs
Chapter 17a Family Caregiver Support Program 08/2025
Chapter 17b Kinship Caregivers Support Program 11/2025
Chapter 17c Kinship Navigator Program 11/2025
Chapter 18 Senior Nutrition Program 02/2026
Chapter 19 Congregate Nutrition
Chapter 20 Transportation 08/2025
Chapter 21 Volunteer Chore Service
Chapter 22 Managed Care 03/2018
Chapter 22a

Apple Health Managed Care and Apple Health Medicare Connect (D-SNP)

05/2026
Chapter 22b Health Homes 09/2026
Chapter 22c Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) 05/2026
Chapter 22d Community Behavioral Health Supports (CBHS) 09/2026
Chapter 23 Quality Assurance and Improvement 03/2018
Chapter 23a Social Services Monitoring 12/2025
Chapter 23b Financial Services Monitoring 12/2025
Chapter 23c Adult Protective Services Quality Assurance 11/2025
Chapter 24 Nursing Services 05/2026
Chapter 25 Private Duty Nursing 10/2024
Chapter 26 Administrative Hearings 05/2026
Chapter 27 Notices 09/2026
Chapter 28 Medicaid Fraud 05/2026
Chapter 29 Roads to Community Living 09/2026
Chapter 30 Medicaid Transformation Demonstration 03/2019
Chapter 30a Intro to Medicaid Transformation Demonstration 11/2025
Chapter 30b Initiative 2: LTSS - Medicaid Alternative Care & Tailored Supports for Older Adults 05/2026
Chapter 30c Initiative 3: Foundational Community Supports – Supported Employment 05/2026
Chapter 30d Foundational Community Supports -- Supportive Housing 09/2026
Chapter 30e Long-Term Services and Supports, Presumptive Eligibility (LTSS PE) 09/2026
Chapter 30h Health Related Social Needs Program 09/2026
Chapter 31 Judicial Involved Transitions 05/2026
Chapter 33 Grievance System, See MB H26-040 09/2026