NHTD & TBI waiver services, plus honest guidance on Medicaid, MLTC and aide hours.
If someone you love has a brain injury or a disability and wants to keep living at home in Manhattan, we can help. We provide NHTD and TBI waiver services directly, and we will walk you through Medicaid and MLTC, including where to get personal care or home health aide hours.
A Priority Cares team member will call you back. Free and no obligation.
Someone from Priority Cares will call you back. If it is urgent, call (718) 400-6166.
Priority Cares is approved by the NYS Department of Health to provide these four services under both the NHTD and TBI waivers, across all five boroughs of New York City.
Your Service Coordinator builds your service plan with you, arranges the other waiver services through approved providers, and checks in regularly so the plan keeps working.
Practical, one-on-one coaching in the skills that make living at home work: managing money and appointments, cooking, getting around the city, and handling everyday paperwork.
Counseling that helps a participant, and often the family, adjust to life with a disability or brain injury: coping, relationships, stress and settling back into the community.
For behaviours that get in the way of living safely at home: an assessment, a written plan, and coaching for the person and the people around them.
The TBI waiver helps adults who have had a traumatic brain injury live at home with support instead of in a nursing facility. It is generally for people aged 18 to 64 at application who have Medicaid and need a nursing-home level of care. Contact us and we will check eligibility with you.
Waiver participants choose their own providers and can ask to change them. If you would like Priority Cares for Service Coordination or any of the services above, talk to us and we will help you make the request.
We are not the agency that sends aides in Manhattan. We will connect you with a licensed home care agency and help you through the Medicaid and MLTC steps, so the hours you are approved for actually start.
What is the difference? A personal care aide (PCA) helps with bathing, dressing, meals, light housekeeping and getting around. A home health aide (HHA) has more training and can also help with some health-related tasks under a nurse's supervision. Your plan's assessment decides which one, and how many hours.
Most long-term home care in New York is paid for by Medicaid, usually through a Managed Long-Term Care (MLTC) plan. Here is the path, in plain language. We are glad to walk you through it, free.
In New York City, most older adults and people with disabilities apply through the NYC Human Resources Administration (HRA); some people apply through NY State of Health instead. Outside the city, you apply through your county Department of Social Services. If you are unsure which applies, ask us and we will walk through it with you.
Before Medicaid approves long-term home care, the New York Independent Assessor (NYIA) does a nurse assessment and a short clinical appointment. You schedule it through New York Medicaid Choice. It replaced the old CFEEC process.
If you also have Medicare and need care for more than 120 days, you will usually join an MLTC plan. Compare plans on the home care agencies they work with near you, languages, and how quickly they assess new members.
The plan does its own assessment, sets a care plan and hours, and sends a licensed home care agency from its network. We can help you prepare for that visit and follow up if hours seem too low.
Our NHTD and TBI waiver services cover every neighbourhood in Manhattan.
No. Our home care licence covers Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe and Ontario counties upstate. In Manhattan we provide NHTD and TBI waiver services, and for aide hours we'll connect you with a licensed home care agency.
We are a NYS DOH-approved NHTD and TBI waiver provider for New York City. Under both waivers we provide Service Coordination, Independent Living Skills Training, Community Integration Counseling and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. We also give families free guidance on Medicaid and MLTC.
Generally, adults aged 18 to 64 at application who have a traumatic brain injury, are eligible for Medicaid and need a nursing-home level of care but want to live in the community. The TBI waiver is for New York City residents in our case. Contact us and we will check eligibility with you.
Yes, if you are already on the NHTD waiver in New York City. Participants choose their own providers and can ask to change them. Talk to us, and to your current Service Coordinator or the RRDC, about making the change.
New York State is currently not accepting most new referrals to NHTD; a limited number of openings are released through the Regional Resource Development Centers (RRDCs). We can explain the steps and help you stay in touch with your RRDC.
Get Medicaid in place (through HRA in New York City), book the New York Independent Assessor (NYIA) assessment through New York Medicaid Choice, then choose an MLTC plan if you need long-term care. We can walk you through each step.
Tell us a little about the situation and we will call you back to talk it through.
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