The LTC / HCBS Waiver is a Medicaid nursing home level of care waiver for those persons who meet both financial and medical eligibility.
- Case Management: a process by which an individual's needs are identified and social and medical services to meet those needs are located, coordinated and monitored.
- Personal Care: A certified nurse aide can be assigned to care for the LTC / HCBS waiver client in the home providing help with activities of daily living such as bathing, meal preparation, grocery shoppings, etc.
- Respite Care: Care that is provided for a short period of time to relieve a regular care giver. If the care is provided in the home, it is provided by a certified nurse aide.
- Home-Delivered Meals: Provision for one or two meals to be delivered to a client's home or to a day care facility on a scheduled basis.
- Personal Emergency Response System: This is an electronic alarm system that a client wears on his/her person which allows them to summon help in an emergency.
- Non-Medical Transportation: Transportation provided for non-medical reasons that are not purely diversionary and cannot be arranged by any other means.
- Adult Day Care: A structured program in a protective setting that provides a variety of health, social, and related support services for part of the day, but less than 24-hour care.
- Skilled Nursing: Services which are within the scope of Wyoming's Nurse Practice Act that will prevent institutionalization of the client.
- Eligibility: Determined by the Department of Family Services. |