CCSP provides frail elderly, who are Medicaid
eligible, with alternatives to nursing home care. Services include: adult day
health, alternative living services, emergency response system, home delivered
meals, home delivered services (home health), personal support services, and
out-of-home respite care.
The
program provides a range of community-based services designed to delay or
prevent more costly nursing home placement. These services include Telephone
Screening, Face-to-Face Consumer Assessment, Care Coordination, Home Delivered
Services (Home Health), Adult Day Health, Alternative Living Services,
Out-of-Home Respite Care, Personal Support Services, Home Delivered Meals, and
Emergency Response System.
CCSP
is the cost-effective alternative to nursing home placement. When funding
allows, CCSP provides Medicaid eligible consumers with community-based
services that maintain the consumer at home or in the community. Consumers
must meet the same medical, functional, and financial criteria as for
placement in a nursing facility. A physician certifies that the consumer’s
needs may be met by CCSP and available community resources.
Provider
agencies render services in the consumers’ homes, licensed personal care
homes, or adult day health facilities. The Department of Human Resources (DHR),
Division of Aging Services (DAS) administers and manages CCSP through an
inter-agency agreement with the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH),
Division of Medical Assistance (DMA).
CCSP
consumers must meet the same medical, functional, and financial criteria as
consumers receiving nursing home care under Medicaid.
Southern
Crescent Gateway staff conduct telephone interviews to screen consumers for
potential service eligibility. Consumers are prioritized for
assessment based on the results of the telephone screening. Consumers with
high impairment levels and unmet need are the first to enter services. A
face-to-face assessment determines the consumer’s need for services.
Care coordinators determine consumer medical eligibility. Eligibility
staff at the Division of Family and Children Services determine consumer
financial eligibility for Medicaid.
CCSP
care coordinators re-assess consumers regularly to assure they remain eligible
for services and the services are appropriate to meet consumer need.
CCSP manages,
coordinates, and provides services to consumers by partnering with public
and private licensed, CCSP-enrolled businesses and agencies. CCSP
supports and grows small, local businesses.
A
CCSP care coordinator screens and assesses consumers’ medical and social
problems/needs to determine the appropriateness for Community Care and develops
a specific plan of care for each consumer admitted to CCSP.
The
care coordinator brokers/monitors provider services for consumers by planning,
arranging, coordinating, and evaluating the service delivery to assure that
appropriate, quality services are provided in a timely and cost effective
manner and assures that consumer costs are contained.
Provides
care in a community-based day program for consumers who are functionally
impaired. ADH provides a variety of health, therapeutic and social service
activities in a group setting. Services include nursing care, special
therapeutic services, personal care services, planned therapeutic activities,
dietary services, transportation, and social work services.
Alternative
Living Services (ALS)
Provides
twenty-four hour supervision, medically-oriented personal care, periodic
nursing supervision, and health-related support services in a residential
setting other than the consumer's home. This service is provided in
state-licensed personal care homes.
Emergency
Response System (ERS)
Provides
an in-home electronic support system for two-way communication between
isolated consumers and a communication control center twenty-four hours a day,
seven days a week.
Home
Delivered Services (HDS)
Medicaid
Home Health Services (HHS) provides traditional home health on an intermittent
basis to consumers in their homes. Includes skilled nursing services; physical,
speech and occupational therapy; home health aide and medical social services.
The State Medicaid Plan pays for the first 75 home health visits, and the CCSP
pays for needed visits in excess of 75.
Home
Delivered Meals (HDM)
Insures
improved nutrition to enhance consumer health and well-being. Consumers may
receive CCSP home delivered meals only in conjunction with another CCSP
service.
Personal
Support Services (PSS)
Services
include assistance with activities such as light housekeeping, running
essential errands, and basic personal care needs including eating, dressing,
bathing, toileting, and transferring.
Extended
Personal Support Services (PSSX)
Provides
personal support services in a home setting that includes respite care for the
full-time caregiver over an extended period of time.
Out-of-Home
Respite Care (OHRC)
Provides
a period of rest or relief for family members or other full-time caregivers
responsible for performing or managing the care of the functionally impaired
consumer through temporary substitute support or living arrangements for
consumers.
Southern
Crescent Area Agency on Aging
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