Monica Deignan is the Managed Care Section Chief, Division of Long-Term
Care, Office of Family Care at the Wisconsin Department of Health
Services.  Monica Deignan’s career has included work as a clinical
social worker with long term care populations including elders, adults
with developmental and physical disabilities and chronic and persistent
mental illness.  Since 1999 she has been associated with Wisconsin’s
effort to redesign the long term care system and extend an entitlement
to community based care to all eligible people.  At the WI Department of
Health Services, she is responsible for programmatic oversight of ten
managed care organizations providing health and long term care to over
28,000 Medicaid participants.