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Frequently
Asked Questions
- Q: How
can I get somebody placed into one of your homes?
A: First, our company needs to review information
about the individual: what is his or her diagnoses,
IQ score, medical needs, psychological needs,
physical needs, etc. In order to determine if
our company can serve those specific needs, wishes
and desires, it is necessary to review a pre-admission
packet of information that has been assembled
by the local Pre-Admission
Screening agency. This Pre-Admission Screening
agency, or PAS agency, needs to be the first call
made in order to make certain the person meets
all state and federal criteria for possible admission
into one of our homes. You may either call at
217-417-1212, or you may contact the Illinois
Department of Human Services for the PAS office
nearest you.
Once this packet of information has been gathered
by the PAS agent and sent at 4102 Belmont Point
Champaign, IL 61822, contact will be made with
either you or the PAS agent regarding the individual.
Next, if this company thinks the person might
do well in one of our homes, we will arrange a
screening to meet the individual needing residential
services, and to allow that person and those who
support him or her to ask questions. If possible,
the individual and his/her support persons go
to the home with the vacancy in order to see the
potential home, meet the other persons who live
there, ask questions, etc. If a trip to the home
is not possible, then we send our staff to wherever
that person lives.
Then, if the individual wishes to try living in
the home with the vacancy, and if this company
feels that person’s needs and wishes could
be met, a pre-admission visit is arranged. This
pre-admission visit is a time to try out living
in the home to see if there is a mutual agreement
that needs, wishes and desires can be met.
Lastly, if the pre-admission visit has gone well,
then admission is discussed. For persons who qualify
to live in one of our eight-bed CILA home, our
staff must use the information generated by the
PAS agent, and submit forms to the Illinois
Department of Human Services in order to receive
funding for residential services. For persons
who qualify to move into an ICF/DD sixteen-bed
home, admission is coordinated by that home’s
administrator.
- Q: What
is the difference between an eight-bed CILA and
a sixteen-bed ICF/DD?
A: Other than the size of the home, the main difference
between a CILA (Community Integrated Living Arrangement)
and an ICF/DD (Intermediate Care Facility for
persons with Developmental Disabilities) is the
funding stream. CILAs are funded by Medicaid Waiver
grants and ICFs/DD are funded by Medicaid. CILA
homes have fewer regulatory guidelines to meet
than do ICF homes.
- Q: Who
can live in a CILA?
A: Individuals who have a developmental disability
as their primary diagnosis can live in a CILA,
provided they have the Medicaid Waiver funding
to support them, or they are private pay.
- Q: Who
can live in an ICF/DD home?
A: Individuals who have a developmental disability
as their primary diagnosis can live in an ICF/DD
home provided they are eligible for Medicaid funding,
or private pay.
- Q: How
much does it cost to live in a CILA or an ICF/DD
home? Will I or my ward have personal spending
money?
A: People who live in CILAs receive funding from
a Medicaid Waiver program, and that funding, combined
with the person’s Social Security or other
entitlement monies, pays for the person’s
stay. Individuals living in CILA homes keep $50.00
a month from their Social Security monies to be
used for personal spending.
People who live in ICFs/DD receive funding from
Medicaid, and that funding, combined with their
Social Security or other entitlement monies, pays
for that person’s stay. Individuals living
in an ICF/DD home keep $30.00 each month from
their Social Security monies to be used for personal
spending.
- Q:
What is a developmental disability?
A: Developmental disabilities include mental retardation,
cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy or seizure disorders
which affect that person’s adaptive functioning.
- Q: How
can my family member/ward receive CILA funding?
A: CILA funding availability is determined for
the person by the Pre-Admission
Screening (PAS) agency. The PAS agent will
meet the individual, talk with people close to
him/her, will collect information about the individual
(for example, medical information, psychological
information, health information, etc.), and will
then make the funding determination based upon
standards set up by the Illinois
Department of Human Services.
- Q: Who
works in the homes, and how are they trained?
A: Adults, aged eighteen years and older, who
have successfully passed a background check, may
work at the homes. Within 120 days of hire, each
staff person must successfully complete a 120-hour
training curriculum which includes 40 hours of
classroom training and 80 hours of on-the-job
training. Also, each staff person is certified
for First Aid and CPR, and receives special training
to ensure the health and safety of each person
living in the homes.
- Q:
How are the homes staffed?
A: Each home ensures there are staff available
at all times when individuals living in the home
are present. The number of staff at the home at
any given time is determined by the collective
needs and the activities of the persons present.
For example, the home is most heavily staffed
during mealtimes and early evening activities,
and less heavily staffed after persons have settled
into their beds for the evening.
- Q:
Is there a nurse on staff?
A: The homes have a nurse consultant assigned
to help the people living in the home and their
staff meet each individual’s assessed medical
needs. Through personal interaction with the individuals
living in the homes, and also through intensive
medical records review and discussions with the
home’s staff, each nurse is very familiar
with the medical needs of the persons living in
the homes to which that nurse is assigned. While
not at the home each day, a nurse is available
on-call 24 hours/day, 7 days/week to ensure medical
needs are met and to provide telephone guidance
and support during emergencies.
- Q: Who helps with
medications?
A: Staff working in the home who have passed a
training course regarding the specific medications
of each person at the home, and also who have
been observed by a consultant registered nurse
are qualified to help persons living in the home
receive their medications and treatments.
- Q: What do the people
who live in the home do all day?
A: A series of assessments is provided to each
person who first moves into a home, and annually
thereafter, as needed. Based upon these assessments,
goals and objectives are decided upon by that
person and his/her Community Support Team during
the program planning meeting. Individualized goals
may be established, for example, to learn how
to bathe, to learn how to manage money, or to
learn how to be more independent in making shopping
selections and choices. Then, as a person lives
his or her day, those specific goals and objectives
will be emphasized by the person’s individual
support staff. We will keep records of how well
the person is progressing with achieving the goals
established so his or her qualified mental retardation
professional (QMRP) can revise or change as needed.
We always get excited when progress is made!
During the week, there are day training programs
available to attend where vocational, pre-vocational
or daily living skills are taught and reinforced.
For some persons living in CILA homes, the choice
is given to remain at home and not attend a day
training program.
Weekends find us out and about in our communities,
enjoying activities, shopping, meals, movies,
or whatever the community has to offer.
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