Frail older persons receive services through a network of home based service providers. Services available include alternative living placements, emergency response systems, home delivered meals, personal support services, respite care, and care coordination as an alternative to nursing home placement.
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 consumers 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.