Common use of Personal Care Clause in Contracts

Personal Care. (3.2): This service is provided to those clients who are not eligible to receive it under the State Plan. This service provides assistance to maintain bodily hygiene, personal safety, and activities of daily living (ADL). These tasks are limited to nonmedical personal services: feeding, bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, care of and assistance with prosthetic devices, rubbing skin to promote circulation, turning in bed and other types of repositioning, assisting the individual with walking, and moving the individual from place to place (e.g., transferring). Client instruction in self care may also be provided; may also include assistance with preparation of meals, but does not include the cost of the meals themselves. Purchase of toiletries and other personal care supplies may be covered where there are no other resources and the purchase would create a financial hardship. These items include: shampoo, soap, lotion, tooth brush and paste, toothettes, shavers, medication assistive devices (e.g., medi-sets, pill crushers), incontinence supplies not covered under the State Plan, disposable gloves and wipes. When specified in the plan of care, this service may also include such housekeeping chores as bed making, dusting, and vacuuming, which are essential to the health and welfare of the recipient. The household chores which are performed by the worker are essentially ancillary to the provision of the client-centered care. Thus, if food is spilled, it may be cleaned up, and when bed linen is soiled it may be changed, washed, and put away. However, at no time would household chores become the central activity furnished by a personal care worker. When a personal care service is to be performed by an unlicensed health care worker (e.g., Home Health Aide), permissible duties will be limited to those allowed by the worker’s employer, or permissible according to the Board of Registered Nursing policy on unlicensed assistive personnel, and as permitted by the individual’s certification, if applicable. Personal care service providers may be paid while the client is institutionalized. This payment is made to retain the services of the care provider and is limited to seven (7) calendar days per institutionalization.

Personal Care. (3.2): This service is provided to those clients who are not eligible to receive it under the State Plan. This service provides assistance to maintain bodily hygiene, personal safety, and activities of daily living (ADL). These tasks are limited to nonmedical personal services: feeding, bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, care of and assistance with prosthetic devices, rubbing skin to promote circulation, turning in bed and other types of repositioning, assisting the individual with walking, and moving the individual from place to place (e.g., transferring). Client instruction in self care may also be provided; may also include assistance with preparation of meals, but does not include the cost of the meals themselves. Purchase of toiletries and other personal care supplies may be covered where there are no other resources and the purchase would create a financial hardship. These items include: shampoo, soap, lotion, tooth brush and paste, toothettes, shavers, medication assistive devices (e.g., medi-sets, pill crushers), incontinence supplies not covered under the State Plan, disposable gloves and wipes. When specified in the plan of care, this service may also include such housekeeping chores as bed making, dusting, and vacuuming, which are essential to the health and welfare of the recipient. The household chores which are performed by the worker are essentially ancillary to the provision of the client-centered care. Thus, if food is spilled, it may be cleaned up, and when bed linen is soiled it may be changed, washed, and put away. However, at no time would household chores become the central activity furnished by a personal care worker. When a personal care service is to be performed by an unlicensed health care worker (e.g., Home Health Aide), permissible duties will be limited to those allowed by the worker’s employer, or permissible according to the Board of Registered Nursing policy on unlicensed assistive personnel, and as permitted by the individual’s certification, certification (if applicable). Personal care service providers may be paid while the client is institutionalized. This payment is made to retain the services of the care provider and is limited to seven (7) calendar days per institutionalization.

Personal Care. (3.2): This service is provided to those clients who are not eligible to receive it under the State Plan. This service provides Provides assistance to maintain bodily hygiene, personal safety, and activities of daily living (ADL)living. These tasks are limited to nonmedical non-medical personal services: services such as feeding, bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, care of and assistance with prosthetic devices, rubbing skin to promote circulation, turning in bed and other types of repositioning, assisting the individual with walking, and moving the individual from place to place (e.g., transferring). Client Purchase of toiletries and other personal care supplies may be covered where there are no other resources and the purchase would create a financial hardship; client instruction in self care may also be provided; client instruction in self care may also be provided; may also include assistance with preparation of meals, but does not include the cost of the meals themselves. Purchase of toiletries and other personal care supplies may be covered where there are no other resources and the purchase would create a financial hardship. These items include: shampoo, soap, lotion, tooth brush and paste, toothettes, shavers, medication assistive devices (e.g., medi-sets, pill crushers), incontinence supplies not covered under the State Plan, disposable gloves and wipes. When specified in the plan of care, this service may also include such housekeeping chores as bed making, dusting, dusting and vacuuming, which are essential to the health and welfare of the recipient. The household chores which are performed by the worker are essentially ancillary to the provision of the client-centered care. Thus, if food is spilled, it may be cleaned up, and when bed linen is soiled it may be changed, washed, and put away. However, at no time would household chores become the central activity furnished by a personal care worker. When a personal care this service is includes nursing tasks to be performed by an unlicensed a health care worker (e.g., Home Health Aide)who is not licensed to perform nursing tasks, permissible duties will be limited to those allowed by the worker’s employer, or permissible according to the Board of Registered Nursing policy on unlicensed assistive personnel, and as permitted by the individual’s certification, certification (if applicable. Personal care service providers may be paid while the client is institutionalized. This payment is made to retain the services of the care provider and is limited to seven (7) calendar days per institutionalization).