A Guide to Your Rights

• An Overview and Introduction
• Health Insurance
• Patient Safety
• Private Benefits:
  Motor Vehicle Insurance
• Private Benefits: Disability Insurance
• Private Benefits: Workers Compensation
• Public Benefits:
  Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
• Public Benefits:
  Crime Victims Compensation Fund
• Public Benefits:
  Federal Government
• Public Benefits: Attendant Care
• Disabled Children
• Rehabilitation Hospitals
  & Facilities
• Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Civil Litigation: Claims For Damages
• Resources
• Support Groups
• Entitlements And Benefits
• Acknowledgements

 

Public Benefits: Attendant Care

Many victims of catastrophic injuries require assistance with their basic activities of daily living and their medical care. Attendant care services can be vital for these patients. The availability of attendant care often can make the difference between a patient living at home and a patient needing to live in an institution.

The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare administers two programs that provide funding for in-home attendant care, Act 150 and the Medicaid Waiver program. Both programs have age, citizenship/residency, disability and medical need requirements. DPW contracts with various area attendant care organizations who perform eligibility review and provide attendant care workers.

The two programs have different financial eligibility requirements. The Medicaid Waiver program is available for those who require nursing home level care but choose to live in the community and who have a gross monthly income of 300% of the SSI benefit rate or less. Anyone eligible for SSI or Medical Assistance is eligible for the Act 150 program. Patients who have incomes over the SSI benefit rate are also eligible, but must pay a fee determined by a sliding scale based on their level of income. Application for the two programs can be accomplished through attendant care contractors.

A complete list of Pennsylvania attendant care contractors is available through http://www.libertyresources.org .

 

Contractors in the southeastern Pennsylvania area include:

 

Abilities in Motion

416 Blair Avenue

Reading, PA 19601

888-376-0120

(610) 288-2301 (TTY)

http://www.abilitiesinmotion.org/

 

Citizens for Independence and Access

3450 Industrial Highway

York, PA 17402-9307

(717) 840-9653

ciacil@ptd.net

 

Freedom Valley Disability Enablement

3607 Chapel Road

Newtown Square, PA 19073

(610) 353-6640

(800) 427-4754 (TTY)

(610) 353-6753 (FAX)

 

Homemaker Service of Metropolitan Area, Inc.

444 N. 3rd Street, Suite 202

Philadelphia, PA 19123

(215) 592-0002

 

Jewish Employment and Vocational Service

1845 Walnut Street, 7th Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19103

(215) 854-1800

http://www.jevs.org/contact.asp

 

Lehigh Valley Center for Independence

919 S. 9th Street

Allentown, PA 18103

(610) 770-9781

 

Liberty Resources, Inc.

1341 N. Delaware Avenue, Suite 105

Philadelphia, PA 19125-4314

(215) 634-2000

www.libertyresources.org/pas_contractor.html

 

United Disabilities Services (UDS) formerly
United Cerebral Palsy of Lancaster County

1901 Homestead Lane

P.O. Box 10485

Lancaster, PA 17605-0485

(717) 397-1841

(800) 995-9581

(717) 293-1595 (FAX)

 

 

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