Personnel Profile

Name: Dee Ann Lindsay

Title: Director of Social Services

Responsibilities: Ensuring MDC remains in compliance with the Department of Mental Retardation's Provider Manual, supervising 9 Case Managers and the agency Incident Management Coordinator, overseeing the management of service recipient records.

Experience: Direct Support Professional, Assistant House Manager, Social Services Aide, Individual Program Coordinator

Education: Graduate of Rockwood High School and attended Roane State Community College.

Goals for your department or the agency in general:

• Department goal: To have on-site physicians, clinicians and therapists at the MDC main campus.
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• Agency goal: Completely paperless system, competitive wages across the board to enable MDC to hire and retain quality staff.

Needs: Supplies: 3 new computers to be able to be up to speed for entering data into the database system. We would like to have LCD display monitors since our space on our desks is so limited. The monitors take up most of the working space on the desk and make it difficult to work.

"Pressboard" medical file folders (these can be $3-$4 each).

Obstacles to providing the level of service you want to provide: Funding. The funding to provide on-site clinicians for routine medical care is not available.
The money is not available for the computers and supplies that we need.

Any other information you would like to provide:
I cannot think of another profession that is more gratifying. Coming in to work each day to see smiling faces of the service recipients, or to have a service recipient that you have known for many years come to your office to simply say hello and "I love you" or be presented with a picture drawn with love- how can you top that?