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Imagine if your family car came in separate parts so that you had to decide which parts were needed, find where you could buy them, and then assemble them yourself. With no overall design for the car and no quality management to make sure the parts fit and determine how well the car is working, what kind of a vehicle do you think you’d have and how would you determine how cost-effective it was? That analogy impressed a number of people in Maine as they developed their state’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the <I>Olmstead</I> case involving state efforts to provide services to the disabled in a coordinated, least-restrictive environment.

Olmstead response: Make interdepartmental collaboration a priority in your state