Autumn Lake

Autumn Lake LLC is a full service, homemaker attendant service company that provides care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We can tailor a plan for each client's needs. We provide services for State-Funded Programs, VA Recipients, Private Insurance, and Private Pay Clients. 

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Things to consider when hiring someone to care for you or a loved one:

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• Make sure you are matched with the right caregiver

• Daily routines

• Health and medication issues

• Emergency response

• Nutritional issues

• House cleaning issues

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Upon your decision to receive home care services with us, we will send our Intake Supervisor to your residence to do an Assessment and Care Plan.

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Areas of Service

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• East Baton Rouge

• West Baton Rouge

• East Feliciana 

• West Feliciana

• Ascension

• Iberville

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Services Offered

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Autumn Lake LLC provides quality home care services in your chosen environment. We provide assistance with ADL and IADL in the comforts of your own home. The tasks we can assist you with include: 

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• Eating, Food Preparation 

• Bathing, Dressing, Grooming

• Use the restroom

• Transferring, Walking, Exercising

• Light housekeeping

• Medication Reminders

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New Opportunities Waiver (NOW)

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This program is a Medicaid Waiver designed to provide home and community-based supports and services to recipients with developmental disabilities who require the level of care of an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/ID).

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The objectives of the NOW program are to offer an alternative to institutionalization and promote independence and community inclusion for recipients through the provision of services. This program utilizes the principles of self-determination as a foundation for supports and services and to supplement the family and/or community supports that are available to maintain the recipient in the community.

 

This program includes an array of services:

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• Residential supports

• Respite

• Community integration and development

• Employment-related supports

• Habilitation

• Environmental modifications and specialized equipment

• Professional services

• As well as other services

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Children Choice Waiver

 

The Children’s Choice Waiver is a Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services program that offers supplemental support to children with developmental disabilities who currently live at home with their families, or who will leave an institution to return home. This waiver is unique as it allows recipients between the ages of birth through 18 years of age to receive a specified monetary amount annually in support services, including support coordination, within a service package individually designed for maximum flexibility. This waiver is an optional service that will be offered to as many children as funding allows. Families of children on the current Developmental Disabilities Request for Services Registry (DDRFSR) will choose to accept a Children’s Choice Waiver offer or remain on the DDRFSR. This waiver is operated by the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD) under the authorization of the Bureau of Health Services Financing (BHSF). Both OCDD and BHSF are agencies within the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DIM).

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Support services to be provided are specified in the Plan of Care (POC). The person-centered planning team, including support coordinators, service providers, family/guardians, and those who know the child best, develops this plan. The POC contains all services and activities involving the recipient, including non-waiver services as well as waiver support services.

 

This waiver includes:

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• center-based respite

• family support

• environmental accessibility adaptations

• support coordination

• specialized medical equipment and supplies

• aquatic therapy

• art therapy

• music therapy

• sensory integration

• Hippotherapy/therapeutic horseback riding

• housing stabilization services

• housing stabilization transition services and family training

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These services are provided as a supplement to all other medically necessary Medicaid services. Recipients are to receive only those support services included in the POC which are approved by the local Human Services Authority or District, hereafter referred to as the local governing entity (LGE).

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Behavioral Health Personal Care Services

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BHPCS also known as Behavioral Health Personal Care Services allows those participants who can not qualify for the traditional Home and Community Based Services through Medicaid to take advantage of a extended program that will allow them to have a Direct Service Worker come to them and provide assistance with Dressing, cooking, light housekeeping, laundry, medication reminders, ambulation, and transferring. If you are receiving behavioral Health Care Services you may qualify for the BHPCS by calling the office at 225.246.2740 and our Behavioral Health Specialist will come and do an on site assessment to get you approved.

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Community Choices Waiver

 

The Community Choices Waiver is a Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waiver providing alternative services to individuals that assist them to live in the community instead of a nursing facility or institution.

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Waiver services to be provided are specified in the Plan of Care which is written by the support coordinator, based on input from the planning team, and then forwarded to the OAAS or its designee for approval. The planning team is comprised of the recipient, the support coordinator, and in accordance with the recipient’s preferences, members of the family/natural support system, appropriate professionals, and others whom the recipient chooses.

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The Plan of Care contains all services and activities involving the recipient, non-waiver as well as waiver services. Recipients are to receive those waiver services included in the Plan of Care and approved by the appropriate support coordination designee or OAAS regional office (as applicable). Notification of approved services is forwarded to the provider by the support coordinator, and the contracted data management agency issues prior authorization to the providers based on the approved Plan of Care.

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Long Term Personal Care Services

The Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) established Long Term-Personal Care Services (LT-PCS) as an optional service under the Medicaid State Plan. This program is designed for Medicaid recipients who require assistance with the activities of daily living and are either in a nursing home or at imminent risk of nursing facility placement.

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The purpose of LT-PCS is to assist individuals with functional impairments with their daily living activities. LT-PCS must be prior authorized and provided in accordance with an approved Plan of Care and supporting documentation. In addition, LT-PCS must be coordinated with the other Medicaid services, community services, and informal supports being provided to the recipient and will be considered in conjunction with those services.

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Each person requesting LT-PCS will undergo a functional eligibility screening to determine if both the nursing facility level of care is met and the nursing facility admission is imminent.

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EPSDT

 

The Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) and Bureau of Health Services Financing (BHSF) established a program that may provide Personal Care Services (PCS) to eligible (recipients up to age 21 years) meeting the medically necessary criteria for these services. The services offered under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) PCS program are provided by a Medicaid enrolled agency that has a valid Personal Care Attendant License issued by the DHH.

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The EPSDT — PCS program, by definition, does not include any medical tasks such as medication administration, tracheostomy care, feeding tubes, or catheters. If such tasks are necessary, they must be requested under either the Home Health Program or, if the recipient is certified for home and community based waiver services, through the waiver program. BHSF will not accept the physician’s delegation for EPSDT — PCS providers to perform such medical tasks.

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Non Emergency Medical Transportation 

 

Non Emergency Medical Transportation also known as NEMT allows participants to be picked up and taken to their health care provider office for their scheduled appointments. Currently right now the agency is accepting Louisiana Healthcare Connect and AmeriHealth. If you have one of those insurance agencies call the 800# number on the back of your insurance card and request Autumn Lake Transportation as your provider agency.