Personal Care Services in New York
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Personal Care Services in New York
Nursing Home Transition and Diversion Waiver Program: New York Approved Provider Learn More
Our team of professionals includes:
- Registered Nurses
- Licensed Practical Nurses
- Certified Home Health Aides
- Facility Based Care
- Private Duty Personal Care Attendants (PCA)
Elara Caring is now a Nursing Home Transition Diversion Waiver provider.
Please complete the form below for more information on receiving in-home personal care in New York.
Note: this form is not for job-seekers. Please visit our Careers page for information on jobs.
We can help you transition and stay home after hospitalization.
It can be challenging to get back into your normal routine after a hospitalization. With the help of Personal Care Services, the transition is smoother.
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Do you or a loved one need support with any of these activities?
- Bathing/dressing
- Meal preparation
- Housekeeping
- Bathroom tasks
- Laundry
- Shopping/errands
We help veterans wherever they call home.
We believe it’s a privilege to care for our nation’s veterans. That’s why we put veteran care FRONT and CENTER at Elara Caring. From short-term assistance to long-term help, we will find a solution that works for each veteran’s unique needs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
CDPAP is Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Program, a New York State Medicaid program that allows patients to recruit, hire, and direct their own home care workers. The program allows the flexibility to hire family members and friends to care for them in their own home. CDPAP is designed to provide an alternative to an assigned aide and to allow more choice and flexibility in home care.
You must have Medicaid or be eligible for Medicaid, require home care, and be self-directing, or have a representative that can direct your care. To be self-directing, one must be capable of making choices regarding one’s activity of daily living and the management of his or her consumer directed personal assistants; understand the impact of these choices; and assumes responsibility for the results of these choices. Additional factors may assist in determining qualifications for CDPAP. Please contact a CDPAP representative at 833.463.5272 to learn more.
For more information regarding our CDPAP program, please call 833.463.5272 to speak to a CDPAP representative.
The program allows the flexibility to hire family members and friends to care for them. The person must be an adult who is not “legally responsible” for a Medicaid consumer’s care and support may be a CDPAP Personal assistant.
Those excluded from being a personal assistant:
- Designated representatives
- Spouses
However, a parent of an adult child (21 years of age or older) may serve as that adult child’s CDPAP personal assistant.
Individuals train their personal assistants to perform the tasks they need done whether those tasks are medical or not.
A fiscal intermediary acts as the payroll agent for the patient and personal assistant. Elara Caring will be the fiscal intermediary and enter into an agreement with the patient. The agreement will describe each party’s responsibilities under the CDPAP program, including the fiscal intermediary’s responsibilities, which include processing each personal assistant’s wages, processing all income tax and other required wage withholdings and complying with worker’s compensation, disability and unemployment requirements, which include:
- Maintaining plan authorizations
- Maintaining personnel records
- Ensuring the health status of each personal assistant is assessed prior to rendering service
- Monitoring the patient’s continuing ability to self-direct
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