Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. The mission of
this waiver is to create options and provide meaningful opportunities that
enhance the lives of individuals with intellectual and/or developmental
disabilities through employment and day service supports in the community. The
goals of the supports waiver are as follows:
1. promote independence for beneficiaries
with a developmental disability who are aged 18 years or older while ensuring
health and safety through a system of beneficiary safeguards;
2.provide an alternative to
institutionalization and costly comprehensive services through the provision of
an array of services and supports that promote community inclusion and
independence by enhancing and not replacing existing informal networks; and
3.increase high school to community
transition resources by offering supports and services to those 18 years and
older.
B. Allocation of
Waiver Opportunities. The Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities
(OCDD) maintains the developmental disabilities request for services registry
(DDRSR), hereafter referred to as "the registry," which identifies persons with
intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who are found eligible for
developmental disabilities services using standardized tools, and who request
waiver services.
1. Services are accessed
through a single point of entry in the local governing entity (LGE). When
criteria are met, individuals' names are placed on the registry and a screening
of urgency of need (SUN) is completed.
2. Individuals determined to have current
unmet needs as defined as a SUN score of urgent [three] or emergent [four] are
offered a waiver opportunity.
3.
The registry is arranged by the urgency of need and date of application for
developmentally disabled (DD) waiver services.
4. OCDD waiver opportunities shall be offered
based on the following priority groups:
a.
Individuals living at publicly operated intermediate care facilities for the
developmentally disabled (ICF/IIDs) or who lived at a publically operated
ICF/IID when it was transitioned to a private ICF/IID through a cooperative
endeavor agreement (CEA facility), or their alternates. Alternates are defined
as individuals living in a private ICF/IID who will give up the private ICF/IID
bed to an individual living at a publicly operated ICF/IID or to an individual
who was living in a publicly operated ICF/IID when it was transitioned to a
private ICF/IID through a cooperative endeavor agreement. Individuals
requesting to transition from a publicly operated ICF/IID are awarded a slot
when one is requested, and their health and safety can be assured in an OCDD
waiver. This also applies to individuals who were residing in a publicly
operated facility at the time the facility was privatized and became a CEA
facility.
b. Individuals on the
registry who have a current unmet need as defined by a SUN score of urgent
[three] or emergent [four] and the earliest registry date shall be notified in
writing when a funded OCDD waiver opportunity is available and a waiver offer
is available.
AUTHORITY
NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
36:254 and Title XIX of the Social Security
Act.
