In 1978, around the dinner table, three Vancouverites discussed the need for a new way to prevent elderly and disabled community members from ending up in a nursing home.  Leeanna Cahoon-Murray and her parents, Ester and Alan Ham first brought the notion of agency home care to Southwest Washington.  Leeanna went to friends Jeri Deckard and Dan Murray, and a non-profit agency was born.  CDM originally stood for the initials of the founding partners (Cahoon-Deckard-Murray).

In Early 1979, the newly minted CDM Services responded to the first ever request for proposal for agency in-home care through the Southwest Washington Agency on Aging.  Previously, all in-home care was done by family members serving as Individual Providers (IP’s).  This new service allowed substitute workers, supervision of the workforce, and care for clients who were not able to serve as the employer.  Respite services were born.  CDM was granted the right to serve Clark County and was referred its first state-funded client soon after.

In 1979, the only funding for agency home care services was through the federal Older Americans Act and state Respite funding.  This all changed in 1983, with the introduction of Community Options Program Entry System (COPES), the first “waiver” program where nursing-home level clients could receive care at home.  This put Washington State far ahead the rest of the nation.  Medicaid Personal Care followed in 1989.

In 1994, CDM contracted to provide service through Kaiser Permanente Expanded Care, a Medicare demonstration program.  This marked the first time that CDM provided service in Oregon. 

In 2002, CDM also received its first contract to provide a service other than in-home care with the addition of Personal Response System units (Pers) through Healthwatch.

In late 2004, CDM first entered into a partnership between the Murray Home Care Foundation and CDM Services, in consultation with Westby & Associates, to reach beyond traditional in-home care services and solve an unmet need in the community.  The “Community Partnership Initiative” was born.

In 2006, CDM responded to an RFP to become the Home Care Referral Registry (HCRR), which matches Independent Providers of home care to Medicaid clients who wish to serve as the employer of the home care aide.

In March 2008, CDM opened a new supportive service to keep people in their own homes: The CDM Adult Day Services Center at 2409 Broadway Street, in Vancouver, WA. 

CDM Services has always been an innovator, from meeting the fledgling need for agency home care in Southwest Washington, forming the Chore Coalition, fighting for legislative changes such as health insurance, and training for caregivers, expanding beyond agency home care and, now, creating a community partnership model to meet the increasingly complex needs of our areas most vulnerable citizens.

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