Family Home Health Care, Inc

• Activities of daily living (ADLs): Activities a person needs to carry out on a daily basis to remain healthy and safe. The covered ADLs are dressing, grooming, bathing, eating, positioning, transfers and mobility.
• Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs): Activates a person needs to carry out on a regular basis to remain independent. Examples include shopping, paying bills and meal preparation.
• Health-related procedures and tasks: Tasks such as supporting a person with self-administered medications or help with range of motion exercises.
• Observation and redirection of behaviors: Monitoring a person’s behaviors and redirecting them to more positive behaviors when needed.

ICS is a 245D-licensed service that helps fill identified service gaps for adults on the Brain Injury (BI), Community Alternative Care (CAC), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI) and Developmental Disabilities (DD) waivers. ICS supports people who choose to live and receive services in a supported apartment setting. An ICS setting is a multi-family housing building (e.g., apartment building) in which the provider has direct or indirect control over the person’s living unit. This means the provider owns, operates or leases the living units in the setting.

ICS provides supports and training in four community living service categories:

• Community participation
• Health, safety and wellness
• Household management
• Adaptive skills.

All service delivery hours are awake and must provide training or support in at least one of the community living service categories.

Night supervision services: Overnight assistance and supervision provided by a staff in the person’s own home when the person has an assessed need in one of the covered services areas.

A person is eligible to receive night supervision services if they:

1. Live in their own home.

2. Are assessed to need overnight assistance and supervision in at least one of the following areas:

• Implementation of the person’s positive support programming and transition plans.
• Reinforcement of skill development supports (e.g., individualized home supports).
• Assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs).
• Assistance with instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs).

Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support and/or training in the community living service categories listed in the covered services section. There are three types of IHS:

• Without training.
• With training.
• With family training.

All types of IHS can be provided in the person’s own home, family’s home or in community spaces used by the general public, and either in person or remotely (refer to the remote support service delivery option section on this page).

Support in community living service categories: Cueing, skill maintenance, guidance, instruction, assistance with activities of daily living, assistance with coordination of community living activities or direct supervision. Support must be within an allowable community living service category.

Training in community living service categories: Skill-building and instructional services to acquire, retain and improve the person’s experience living in the community. Training must be within an allowable community living service category, and training must meet identified needs specified in the person’s assessment (e.g., MnCHOICES, long-term care consultation).