in their community, and if so, the starting date. As the pilot implementation of the NCMS started
in 2003, it is clear that those communities that began the CMS before 2003 were implementing the
old CMS. Therefore, CMS plans that started to operate in or after 2003 are dened as the NCMS.
Given that the NCMS implementation takes place at the county level, if any community within a
county was known to have adopted the NCMS, then the county as a whole was dened as having
implemented the NCMS.16