Blog Posts by "carol"
Medicare Open Enrollment- Oct 15-Dec 7
Posted on Dec 1, 2011 by Carolyn Fagan, RN |
Per the GeorgiaCares Website: GeorgiaCares is a private-public partnership, administered by the Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Aging Services (DAS). GeorgiaCares is a volunteer-based program that provides free, unbiased and factual information and assistance to Medicare be...
Tagged: medicare, open enrollment, georgiacares
Georgia Dept of Human Services(DHS)-Memorandum Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Payment Increase
Posted on Nov 17, 2011 by Carolyn Fagan, RN |
Per DHS: Effective January 1, 2012, SSI and Social security recipients will receive a 3.6 percent cost-of-living Increase in their monthly payments. New SSI payment will be $698.00 for single individual and $1048.00 for couples. Per DHS: Effective January 1, 2012, clients’ payments to the h...
Tagged: ssi, dhs, social security payment increase for 2012
Mental Health Clients being Termination from SOURCE Program
Posted on Sep 26, 2011 by carol |
Clients throughout the state are being Terminated from the SOURCE Program because they do not meet level of care for the Program. The level of care for this program is Intermediate Nursing Home Level of Care. A large majority of these clients being terminated have a Mental Health Diagnosis. Some...
Tagged: mental health diagnosis, schizophrenia, bipolar, personality disorder, source program
Information about SOURCE and CCSP Programs
Posted on Sep 25, 2011 by Carolyn Fagan |
SOURCE and CCSP are the two primary Medicaid waiver programs that help low and middle income people pay for services in personal care homes. If a person is Potentially Medicaid eligible and is not on Georgia Medicaid yet and goes to apply for the CCSP program, the CCSP coordinator will make ...
Tagged: source, ccsp, medicaid, custodial care, dementia care, alternative living services, assisted living, senior living
SOURCE Program Termination Letters not being received in a timely manner
Posted on Aug 28, 2011 by Carolyn Fagan, RN |
Many Clients and their families have complained that SOURCE sites have not notified them that they were being terminated in a timely manner. The termination guidelines state that a client has 15 days from the date of the termination letter to send in an appeal letter to the Legal Dept at Departme...
Tagged: source, termination letters, appeal process
SB 166-Assisted Living Legislation Passes the HOUSE & will Become Law!!!
Posted on Apr 13, 2011 by Carolyn Fagan, RN |
SB 166 (Senator Jesse Stone) modernizes the regulation of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs). Talking Points · SB 166 updates the regulation of CCRCs. There was no opposition. · SB 166 was drafted over a three year period and represents the cooperation of the Department of Insuran...
SB 178- Passes HOUSE- Focus on Assisted Living Facilities with 25 beds or more
Posted on Apr 13, 2011 by Carolyn Fagan, RN |
The SB 178 Bill will allow Assisted Living Facilities licensed for 25 beds or more to provide certain services which are beyond the services that are allowed to be provided for in a Licensed Personal Care Home. Bill Passes House- A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the ...
Tagged: sb 178, health care facilities regulation, licensing of assisted living communities, personal care homes