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We include 972.382.9900 a comprehensive list of all licensed providers in the Greater Dallas area as provided by the Texas Department of Aging and Disability The Seniors Blue Book Services, to help you meet the CMS ‘Conditions of Participation’ 2220 Coit Rd, Ste 480-216 requirements (see page ii). Thanks to feedback from some of your colleagues, we have also included a blank copy of the Plano, Texas 75075 NON-MEDICAL HOME HEALTH CARE, HOME HEALTH CARE, Texas Department of State Health Services OOH-DNR form, O: 972.382.9900, F: 972.382.9901 AND HOSPICE AGENCIES including instructions (see pages 62-63) W: SeniorsBlueBook.com Please continue to provide Seniors Blue Books to all of your Bernadette de Isaza Art Director patients, clients and caregivers. If you run out simply contact us di- rectly at [email protected] and we’ll be happy The contents of this book may not be to send you more. reproduced either in whole or in part without consent of the publisher. Every effort has Thanks again for all you do and let me know if you have been made to include accurate data, however, SENIOR SERVICES any suggestions or comments on how to further improve the publisher cannot be held liable for Seniors Blue Book. material content or errors. Copyright 2018. Kathleen Warshawsky, BSN, RN, Publisher Memory care for unforgettable people. Your loved ones are special. Thankfully, there’s a place near White Rock Lake where remarkable people with memory loss are cared for by specially trained staff. The Cove at C. C. Young is a nurturing Assisted Living community to help your loved ones live life to the fullest in their next chapter. Call us today and tell us your loved one’s story. A non-profit, faith-based organization serving since 1922. All faiths welcome. 4847 W. Lawther Dr. • Dallas, TX 75214 ccyoung.org • 214.874.7474 License #000532 TABLE OF CONTENTS SENIOR HOUSING 1 Active Adult Communities Comparison Grid 2-6 Independent Living / Retirement Communities Comparison Grid 7-20 Assisted Living Communities Comparison Grid 21-27 Memory Care Assisted Living Comparison Grid 28-34 Skilled Nursing Facilities Comparison Grid NON-MEDICAL HOME HEALTH CARE, HOME HEALTH CARE, AND HOSPICE AGENCIES 35 Non-Medical Home Care Agencies Comparison Grid 36-45 Home Health Care Agencies Comparison Grid 46-48 Hospice Care Agencies Comparison Grid SENIOR SERVICES 50 Adult Day Programs 56 Hospitals – Long Term Acute Care 50 Advocacy For Senior & Patients 56 Housing Placement & Resource Specialist 50 Brain Health Therapeutics 56 Investments 50 Care Management 56 Legal Services 50 Caskets 56 Life Insurance 50 Cemeteries 56 Long Term Care Insurance 50 Clothing 57 Medical Staffing 50 Cremation 57 Memorials 50 Dementia Resources 57 Mental Health Facilities 51 Downsizing & Relocating 57 Mental Health Services 51 Elder Abuse & Crime Prevention 58 Palliative Care Services 51 Elder Law 58 Prescription Assistance & Discounts 51 Emergency Response Systems 58 Probate 51 Energy Resources & Weatherization 58 Real Estates Services 51 Estate Planning 58-59 Rehabilitation Hospitals 51 Financial Assistance 59 Respite Care 51 Financial Safety 59 Retirement Planning 51 Financial Services 59-60 Social Security 51-52 Food Resources 60 Subsidized Housing Resources 52 Funeral, Cremation, & Mortuary Svcs 60 Telephone Reassurance & Visiting 52 Guardianship 60 Transportation 52 Hearing Resources 60 Urns 52 Hearing – Audiologists/Hearing Aids 60-61 Affordable Housing Home Improvements & 62 Out of Hospital DNR Instructions 52 Safety Modifications IBC Out of Hospital DNR Forms 52 Home Medical Equipment Loan Closets 52-55 Hospitals Indicates website link on seniorsbluebook.com i CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION §482.43 Condition of participation: there are factors that may affect continuing care needs or the Discharge planning. appropriateness of the discharge plan. The hospital must have in effect a discharge planning (5) As needed, the patient and family members or interested process that applies to all patients. The hospital’s policies persons must be counseled to prepare them for post-hospital and procedures must be specified in writing. care. (a) Standard: Identification of patients in need of discharge (6) The hospital must include in the discharge plan a list planning. The hospital must identify at an early stage of hos- of HHAs or SNFs that are available to the patient, that are pitalization all patients who are likely to suffer adverse health participating in the Medicare program, and that serve the consequences upon discharge if there is no adequate discharge geographic area (as defined by the HHA) in which the planning. patient resides, or in the case of a SNF, in the geographic (b) Standard: Discharge planning evaluation. (1) The hospital area requested by the patient. HHAs must request to be must provide a discharge planning evaluation to the patients listed by the hospital as available. identified in paragraph (a) of this section, and to other patients – (i) This list must only be presented to patients for whom upon the patient’s request, the request of a person acting on home health care or post-hospital extended care services are the patient’s behalf, or the request of the physician. indicated and appropriate as determined by the discharge (2) A registered nurse, social worker, or other appropriately planning evaluation. qualified personnel must develop, or supervise the development – (ii) For patients enrolled in managed care organizations, the of, the evaluation. hospital must indicate the availability of home health and (3) The discharge planning evaluation must include an posthospital extended care services through individuals and evaluation of the likelihood of a patient needing post- hospital entities that have a contract with the managed care organi- services and of the availability of the services. zations. (4) The discharge planning evaluation must include an evalu- – (iii) The hospital must document in the patient’s medical ation of the likelihood of a patient’s capacity for self-care or of record that the list was presented to the patient or to the the possibility of the patient being cared for in the environment individual acting on the patient’s behalf. from which he or she entered the hospital. (7) The hospital, as part of the discharge planning process, (5) The hospital personnel must complete the evaluation on a must inform the patient or the patient’s family of their freedom timely basis so that appropriate arrangements for post-hospi- to choose among participating Medicare providers of posthospi- tal care are made before discharge, and to avoid unnecessary tal care services and must, when possible, respect patient and delays in discharge. family preferences when they are expressed. The hospital must not specify or otherwise limit the qualified providers that are (6) The hospital must include the discharge planning evalua- available to the patient. tion in the patient’s medical record for use in establishing an appropriate discharge plan and must discuss the results of the (8) The discharge plan must identify any HHA or SNF to which evaluation with the patient or individual acting on his or her the patient is referred in which the hospital has a disclosable behalf. financial interest, as specified by the Secretary, and any HHA or SNF that has a disclosable financial interest in a hospital (c) Standard: Discharge plan. (1) A registered nurse, social under Medicare. Financial interests that are disclosable under worker, or other appropriately qualified personnel must devel- Medicare are determined in accordance with the provisions of op, or supervise the development of, a discharge plan if the Part 420, Subpart C, of this chapter. discharge planning evaluation indicates a need for a discharge plan. (d) Standard: Transfer or referral.