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S.C. Code of Regulations R.126-304 — Community Long Term Care Home and Community Based Services (incl. Personal Care)

South CarolinaregulationSouth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services· effective 1995-03-24

What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1Personal care must be limited to the in-home provision of the necessary services of support of activities of daily living, home support, medical monitoring, and client transportation services to restore, maintain and promote health status.(S.C. Code of Regulations R.126-304 — Community Long Term Care Home and Community Based Services (incl. Personal Care))
  • 2Home and community based services may be provided only to Medicaid-eligible persons eighteen years of age or older who have been determined by community long term care to require a skilled or intermediate level of care.(S.C. Code of Regulations R.126-304 — Community Long Term Care Home and Community Based Services (incl. Personal Care))
  • 3Medical day care services must be provided in a licensed medical day care center.(S.C. Code of Regulations R.126-304 — Community Long Term Care Home and Community Based Services (incl. Personal Care))
  • 4Service management must include assessment and reassessment, level of care determination, service planning, service coordination, and counseling.(S.C. Code of Regulations R.126-304 — Community Long Term Care Home and Community Based Services (incl. Personal Care))
  • 5Medical social services must be provided by an individual with no less than a Masters Degree in social work.(S.C. Code of Regulations R.126-304 — Community Long Term Care Home and Community Based Services (incl. Personal Care))

Applies to: personal care

This DHHS regulation defines the Community Long Term Care home- and community-based Medicaid services, including personal care as the in-home support of activities of daily living, and sets who may receive them.

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