Our Homecare Services
Gateway 2 Comforting Hands is a provider through the Agency for Persons with Disabilities and also Medicaid Provider ID # 117400300.
Life Skills Development Level 1 – Companion
Companion services consist of non-medical care, supervision, and socialization activities provided to recipients age 21 years or older. This service must be provided in direct relation to the achievement of the recipient’s goals as specified in the recipient’s support plan. The service provides access to community-based activities that cannot be provided by natural or other unpaid supports, and should be defined as activities most likely to result in increased ability to access community resources without paid support. These services can be scheduled on a regular, long-term basis.
Companion services can be provided in the following settings:
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Recipient’s own home
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Recipient’s family home
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This service may be provided to individuals who resided in a licensed facility while the recipient is engaged in a community activity as long as the companion service is not duplicative of what is required by the residential provider licensing requirements
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The community
Respite Care
This service is generally used due to a brief planned or emergency absence, or when the primary caregiver is available, but temporarily physically unable to care for or supervise the recipient for a brief period of time. Respite care is a service that provides supportive care and supervision to recipients under the age of 21 years when the primary caregiver is unable to perform the duties of a caregiver. Respite care for recipients age 21 years or older is available as a part of the personal supports service family.
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Respite care can be provided in the recipient’s family home, while involved with activities in the community, or receive respite services in a licensed group home, foster home, or assisted living facility (ALF).
Personal Supports
Personal supports services provide assistance and training to the recipient in activities of daily living, such as eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, and preparation of meals. This service can also include heavy household chores to make the home safer, such as washing floors, windows and walls; tacking down loose rugs and tiles; or moving heavy items or furniture. Services also include non-medical care, and supervision. This service can provide access to community-based activities that cannot be provided by natural or unpaid community supports and are likely to result in an increased ability to access community resources without paid support. Personal supports are designed to encourage community integration. Personal supports in supported living are also designated to teach the recipient about home-related responsibilities. This service can also include respite services to a recipient age 21 years or older living in their family home. Respite services provide relief to the caregiver and is incorporated into the personal support service. The provider, to the extent properly qualified and licensed, assists in maintaining a recipient’s own home and property as a clean, sanitary and safe environment. This service is provided in support of a goal included the support plan or an identified need to support or maintain basic health and safety and is not purely diversional in nature.
Supported Living Coaching
These services can include assistance with locating appropriate housing; the acquisition, retention, or improvement of skills related to activities of daily living (e.g., personal hygiene and grooming); household chores; meal preparation; shopping; personal finances; and the social and adaptive skills necessary to enable recipients to reside on their own. Who Can Receive Supported living coaching services provide training and assistance in a variety of activities to recipients who live in their own homes or apartments. Recipients are limited to adults age 18 years or older.
This service provides transportation to and from the recipient’s home and community-based waiver services, enabling the recipient to receive the supports and services identified in both the support plan and approved cost plan, when such services cannot be accessed through natural (i.e., unpaid supports).
Supported Employment
Coming soon!
Will be offered in the coming future.