2024 Survey and Profiles

Wellpoint, UnitedHealthcare, and BlueCare TN are collaborating for a seventh year with TennCare and the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) at the University of Minnesota to conduct an annual statewide survey about the direct support workforce in Tennessee. The Tennessee LTSS Quality Improvement Year 7 2024 Survey is a key component of a comprehensive workforce strategy in the state of Tennessee. Data gathered from the first six years of the survey are informing ongoing discussions and planning about wages, benefits, and ways to find and keep good employees and enhance access to home and community-based services (HCBS) for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, adults 21 years of age and older with a physical disability, and seniors in Tennessee. Participating organizations also receive a customized data summary about the direct support workforce in their organization.

The year 7 survey will be collecting data from the calendar year 2024. The survey results will be described in a survey report and depicted in state and regional profiles.

This year’s survey will open on June 2nd, 2025 and invitations to participate in the survey will be sent to organizations mid May.

Your involvement and willingness to participate in this survey is voluntary. Partaking in this survey will provide you with important data to target your improvement efforts and to measure your agency’s progress over time. Your agency’s contributions also help to inform future workforce initiatives that may include development of additional workforce tools and supportive training opportunities to address the workforce crisis.

For more information about the University of Minnesota’s efforts on the QuILTSS Workforce Initiative, please contact dsp-tn@umn.edu.

More information related to this year’s survey will be made available on this website as it is available in the coming months.