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Virginia's Easy Access Website Features

Virginia Easy Access, presented by the Virginia Department for the Aging, is a part of the Commonwealth’s No Wrong Door initiative. No Wrong Door offers individuals a simple, single point of entry for information on long-term support options, applications for benefits, and other supportive programs. It also provides a secure web-based system that connects state and local public agencies, private organizations and providers, allowing consumer information to be shared in a confidential manner and improving coordination of long-term care services.

“The new Virginia Easy Access website is a virtual portal – an electronic doorway – through which seniors and adults with disabilities will find both access to important and needed information and assistance in applying for services,” said Governor Kaine.

Virginia Easy Access provides a single doorway to information about public benefits and programs and includes a variety of informative topics of interest to seniors and adults with disabilities. From this easy-to-use website, individuals can link to a feature that enables them to search for specific services in each community. There are also imbedded links that lead the user to detailed information on a multitude of topics.

For example, Virginia Easy Access is a doorway to VirginiaNavigator, a listing of over 21,000 programs and services across the Commonwealth powered by SeniorNavigator. The VirginiaNavigator provider database is continually being updated to make available the most comprehensive listing of services and supports in the Commonwealth, allowing the website user to locate services in every community.

Developed by service professionals and technology experts with help from seniors and individuals with disabilities, Virginia Easy Access is simple to use, easy to understand, and accessible from anywhere in the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Supported by 2-1-1 Virginia Call Center Operators, citizens may utilize Virginia Easy Access to e-mail questions and receive assistance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Virginia Easy Access will enable citizens to complete a Medicaid application on-line and electronically submit it directly to the appropriate local social services agency for processing.

Review below the webinar recording of September 25, led by Ms. Debbie Burcham, Chief Deputy Commissioner at the Virginia Department for the Aging or review the slides appended below. The recording features a PowerPoint presentation followed by a Q&A session.

Additional questions and answers are posted and answered at: http://www.alzpossible.org/newsletter/easyaccess.html