PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES

The Center provides long term home health services including attendant and nursing care through its Personal Assistance Services Program. Services are delivered between the hours of 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. Families of individuals requiring personal attendant services often do not have the resources or the knowledge to properly care for their disabled family members. Without the services provided by the Personal Assistance Services Program, our clients would be forced to face institutionalization in nursing homes.

The PAS Program provides in home attendant services and nursing care to people with disabilities which allow them to live independently in their own homes rather than being forced to be institutionalized in nursing homes. Long term services delivered to 34 clients in their homes 365 days per year include:

• Transfers 
• Bowel and catheter care 
• Wellness counseling 
• Bathing 
• Shopping 
• Cooking 
• Medication assistance 
• Acute Care 
• Advocacy - medical providers 
• Feeding 
• Homemaking 
• Service coordination 

Many consumers of this program require assistance with getting out of bed in the morning, feeding and grooming themselves. However, once they have received this assistance, they lead so called normal lives as employees, students and members of the community. People eligible for the Personal Assistance Program are generally young (average age 28), healthy people who have experienced traumatic accidents and are people with disabilities which may include quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, or multiple disabilities of paralysis and head injury.

The PAS Program is Boulder's only long term home health services program which targets Medicaid recipients. This program is imperative in the prevention of unnecessary institutionalization in nursing homes. Medicaid typically reimburses at a low rate for such services and if providers are unwilling to accept it, a recipient's only alternative is nursing home confinement.

We are always very interested in hearing from Certified Nursing Assistants, Personal Care Attendants and Homemakers who might be interested in working with our program to support persons with disabilities by providing services for them in their homes.

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