Long-Term Care/Home Community Based Waiver Services

The LTC/HCBS Waiver is a Medicaid Nursing Home level of care waiver for those persons who meet both financial and medical eligibility. Effective July 1, 2000 there are 850 individuals who receive services through this program. Vereen Bebo is the Aging Division’s contact person for this program. If you would like to see what waiver services are in which county, please view the Waiver provider list.

Case management: a process by which an individual’s needs are identified; and social and medical services to meet these needs are located, coordinated, and monitored.

Personal care: A certified nurse aide can be assigned to care for the LTC/HCBS waiver client in the home, providing help with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, meal preparation, grocery shopping, etc.

Respite care: Care that is provided for a short period of time to relieve a regular care-giver. If the care is provided in the home it is provided by a certified nurse aide.

Home delivered meals: Provision of for one or two meals to be delivered to a client’s home or to a day care facility on a scheduled basis.

Personal emergency response system: This is an electronic alarm system that a client wears on his person which allows him to summon help in an emergency.

Non-Medical transportation: Transportation provided for non-medical reasons that are not purely diversionary and cannot be arranged by any other means.

Adult day care: A structured program in a protective setting that provides a variety of health, social, and related support services for part of the day, but less than 24 hour care.

Skilled Nursing: Services which are within the scope of Wyoming’s Nurse Practice Act that will prevent institutionalization of the client.

*ELIGIBILITY IS NOT DETERMINED BY THIS OFFICE. Please contact your local Department of Family Services (DFS) to find out the eligibility requirements for this program.