Minnesota Agencies

The charge of the council is to improve the quality of services provided to people with disabilities. The State Quality Council shall: assist the Department of Human Services in fulfilling federally mandated obligations by monitoring disability service quality and quality assurance and improvement practices in Minnesota; establish state quality improvement priorities with methods for achieving results and provide an annual report to the legislative committees with jurisdiction over policy and funding of disability services on the outcomes, improvement priorities, and activities undertaken by the commission during the previous state fiscal year; identify issues pertaining to financial and personal risk that impede Minnesotans with disabilities from optimizing choice of community-based services; and recommend to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over human services and civil law by January 15, 2013, statutory and rule changes related to the findings under clause (3) that promote individualized service and housing choices balanced with appropriate individualized protection.

The Quality Assurance in Minnesota 2007 report, mandated under Laws of Minnesota 2005, 1st Special Session, chapter 4, article 7, section 57, and presented to the legislature in February 2007, was produced by the Quality Assurance Panel, which recommended the formation of a State Quality Council and Regional Quality Councils. Legislation created the State Quality Council in 2011 and the Council convened in 2012, according to their website. This system is a partnership between the Department of Human Services and the State Quality Council.

Members shall include representatives from the following groups: disability service recipients and their family members; during the first two years of the State Quality Council, there must be at least three members from the Region 10 stakeholders. As regional quality councils are formed under subdivision 4, each regional quality council shall appoint one member; disability service providers; disability advocacy groups; and county human services agencies and staff from the Department of Human Services and Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.