Community Services Program for Persons with Physical Disabilities (CSPPPD)
The Community Services Program for Persons with Physical Disabilities (CSPPPD) provides services to people with severe developmental physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or similar conditions. Individuals must have an other related condition which manifests at least three substantial functional limitations in the areas of mobility, communication, self-care, learning, self-direction, or capacity for independent living.
Total countable resources for persons over the age of 21 must be $8,000 ($2,000 Medicaid limit that includes a $6,000 resource disregard) or less. Resources include, but are not limited to, cash on hand, bank accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, life insurance and vehicles.
Program components include the following:
- OBRA Home and Community Based Waiver services to persons with other related conditions, whose disability occurred before the age of 22, who relocate from a nursing facility to a home in the community are mandated by the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (OBRA87).
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- OBRA Home and Community Based Waiver services to persons with ORC who are age 18 and older and occurring before the age of 22 who are living in the community who have a great need for habilitation services to assist them to avoid nursing home placement.
- Independence Home and Community Based Waiver
Services to persons with ORC who are age 18 and over who meet nursing facility clinical eligibility but choose to be diverted and live in community settings.
- COMMCARE Home and Community Based Waiver services to persons with a medically determined diagnosis of traumatic brain injury.
- Two twenty-four hour residential settings known as Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Other Related Conditions (ICFs/ORC) which were developed as a result of the Richardson Settlement Agreement.
- Pre-Admission review of all nursing facility applicants with Other related Conditions occurring before the age of 22 to determine if those persons need nursing facility care and specialized services as mandated by the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (OBRA87).
- Specialized services to nursing facility residents with ORC occurring before the age of 22 as mandated by the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (OBRA87) and provided as agreed to in the Richardson Settlement Agreement.
OBRA Waiver services include adult day, assistive technology, community integration, community transition, daily living, educational services, environmental adaptations, personal emergency response system, prevocational services, respite, service coordination, supported employment services, non-medical transportation as well as therapies (behavioral, occupational, speech and physical) and visiting nurse above state plan maximums.
Independence Waiver Services include assistive technology, community integration, community transition, daily living, educational services, environmental adaptations, personal emergency response system, respite, service coordination, non-medical transportation as well as therapies (behavioral, occupational, speech and physical) and visiting nurse above state plan maximums.
Specialized Services available under the CSPPPD consist of training, encouragement, and other tangible supports, which enable a person to acquire, regain, improve, or maximize their skills and abilities. Six types of specialized services offered include: service coordination and advocacy services, peer counseling support groups, training in such areas as decision making, and household management, community integration activities, assessments and transportation. Specialized services help nursing facility residents live more productive and satisfying lives as close to home as possible.
Contact Information
Consumers interested in applying for OBRA Waiver services or service providers interested in providing waiver services, please contact the Administrative Entity at the following locations:
United Disabilities Services
1901 Olde Homestead Lane, P.O. Box 10485
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17605-0485
717-97-1841 or 800-95-9581
Liberty Resources, Inc.
1341 North Delaware Avenue, Suite 105
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19125-4314
215-634-2000 or 888-634-2155