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What is Consumer Directed Services (CDS)
Consumer Directed Services (CDS) is a Medicaid-based program that gives personal care attendant (PCA) services to people with disabilities, empowering them to live autonomously.
Members in the CDS program are prepared to contract attendants to help them with errands of every day living. The errands may incorporate washing/showering, toileting, getting pharmaceutical, meal arrangement and cleanup, housekeeping/clothing and fundamental transportation.
The CDS program is intended to help individuals with disabilities with getting the attendant services expected to securely live in a home setting of their decision as opposed to living in a more prohibitive institutional condition.
Client Inquiry
What is a Participant, and how can I Participate?
Participants are individuals with disabilities needing help with tasks such as Washing, Dressing, Toileting,Housekeeping, Clothing, Etc.
Otherwise known as 'Assistance with Daily Living'.
To Participate You Must:
Be qualified for MO HealthNet (Medicaid).
Be 18 years old or more seasoned.
Have the capacity to coordinate his or her own care.
Be physically debilitated.
Be equipped for living freely with the services of a personal care attendant.
Require no less than a nursing office level of care.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) (or its designee) will survey individuals who meet the base capabilities to check whether they are qualified for the CDS program. In the event that a person is qualified, DHSS and the potential member will make a care arrange for that layouts the type(s) of service(s) the individual will be endorsed to get from a personal care attendant through the CDS program.
In the event that you meet the base capabilities, please call (314) 200-2888. An admission expert will finish a preparatory screening and allude you to DHSS for an evaluation. Somebody from our attendant services division will then enable you to get your personal care attendant arranged for work.
What is an Attendant, and How can I become an Attendant?
An attendant can be any qualified caregiver picked by the CDS program member, including a family part (other than a life partner).
A CDS program member is the legitimate boss of his or her personal care attendant. Our Participants utilize our meeting, employing, planning, coordinating and, in the event, terminating services as an administration. Personal care attendants work solely for Participants.
Personal care attendants must pass a historical verification through the Family Care Safety Registry (FCSR) and the Employee Disqualification List. Attendants should likewise entire an employee qualification check utilizing E-Verify through the U.S. Bureau of Homeland Security. We will finish all required record verification.
