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Options for Independent Living Announces its Medicaid Personal Care Program
March 18th, 2011
Options is now offering a Personal Care Program which empowers people with disabilities to manage their personal care services. It is a consumer directed Personal Care Program for people with disabilities who are:
Medicaid beneficiaries, require personal care services,
and have identified an individual to provide personal care.
Personal care includes: assistance with: bathing, dressing/undressing, prosthetics, grooming, eating, mobility in home, toileting, transferring, and incidental services (laundry, light housekeeping, meal prep).
The consumer must agree to responsibly use personal care services and have back-up support available as needed. Options does not provide emergency or back-up personal care services.
Consumers utilizing Options Personal Care Program must have chosen an individual who they are interested in hiring. The Personal Care Worker (PCW) candidate must be at least 18 years old and, ideally, be trained in the skill(s) necessary to provide cares to the consumer. The PCW can not be a parent/guardian of a minor child or a spouse.
Options is pleased to introduce Lynn Smits as the HR Manager/Personal Care Coordinator. If you have a referral or would like more information on Options Personal Care Program please contact Lynn at (920) 490-8270 ext. 114 or toll-free at 888-465-1515, ext. 114 or e-mail lynns@optionsil.org.
Options would also like to introduce Bonnie Stankevitz, RN Supervisor, and Ann Nelson, RN, for the Personal Care Program. Bonnie and Ann will be responsible for providing assessments, plan provision, and follow-up services for Personal Care Program recipients.