04/01/2025

Lori Wesley

Medicaid - Difficult Discharges & ALW Updates

Discuss key points to know when discharging residents, common complex discharges, and what to communicate with your residents’ case managers. Q & A with Assisted Living Waiver case managers.

Lori is a licensed social worker who has worked as an Assisted Living Waiver Case Manager for the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging for the past 10 years. It is Lori’s job to provide advocacy and case management for the consumers on her case load on the Assisted Living Waiver. She also worked previously as a Passport Home Care Case Manager at COAAA for four years and as an Assessor at COAAA for two years. Lori has also worked as a Long Term Care Ombudsman through Catholic Social Services for eleven years before working at COAAA. Lori attended Minnesota State University and graduated with a BSW in 1983. She obtained her Ohio Social Work licensure in 1994.