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To all My Brothers' Keeper Employees and Clients:
Timesheets: Are legal documents, not allowed to leave the client's books or home. It is now the responsibility of the client or responsible party to make sure that the employee timesheet is correct, no falsifying of hours, hours are correct, no overlapping of hours that are not authorized by share care, etc.
The employee signature and the client/responsible party signature are stating that everything is correct. It is a federal crime to commit fraud on your timesheets.
If there is more than one PCA at your home, the timesheets from all employees must be submitted to the office all within the same day to be reviewed for overtime, overlapping etc. If not submitted all on the same day could result in late paychecks for all PCAs of that client.
There is no stipulation stating that you can not turn in timesheets earlier than the 5 day grace period. Also all new PCAs will not be able to turn hours in until a clearance from DHS is obtained and enrollment is submitted from the office.
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On 03/11/2010 the 86th Legislative session is having a hearing, trying to pass moving the stiffer eligibility requirements for PCA of 2 ADLs with NO level 1 behavior to be effective July 1, 2010 instead of July 1, 2011. Also that they are trying to have PCAs pay $50.00 annually to enroll with DHS as a PCA. The bill will accelerate terminations for about 1600 recipients.
Please contact your state represenative and senator !!!
We attended the new assessment process, alot of changes, no longer implementing IADLs,
ADLs require cuing and constant supervision to complete or hands on assistance to complete the task.
With behaviors, the PHN wants to know the description, frequency, intervention and how it affects the client's day.
Physical aggresion towards others, self or destruction of property that requires immediate response of another.
Increased vulnerability due to cognitive deficits or socially inappropriate behavior, resistive to care,verbal
aggresion, physical aggresion towards self, others or destruction of property.
Our suggestion is to document, document, document, collect reports from schools etc. The more you have the better the chances of your services not getting a drastic cut.
Please call your legilators, call the "You Need To Hear Me"
phone number is: 651-603-2009
Leave a short message describing the impact legislative changes have
made on your life, friends and family. A zip code will be asked so that a
message can be communicated to the correct legislators.
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New Changes coming from our Legislatures and Dept. of Human Services:
Starting on July 1, 2009
PCA's will need to come to the office for orientation, no exceptions.
Please allow at least one week between orientation and when they start to provide
PCA services, you can call the office after 3 business days to find out the status
of your background study, but it has to also be submitted to provider enrollment before you can start.
PCA's are limited to 275 hours per month, this also includes working for another company.
PCAs may only work a maximum of 16 hours per day.
We will not hire any PCAs under the age of 18, per our policy.
PCAs will be required to complete training, when & what will occur later.
A step-parent may not provide PCA services (start date 1/1/2010).
Recipients:
When the RNs come to do your annual care plan, you will have requirements
that will need to be followed. Care plans are to be created with the recipient
and/or the responsible party. Care plan will be monitored monthly by your RN
Care plans will now need to be updated at the time of your reassessment.
(we will find out clarification of before or after)
Supervision by RNs for your PCAs will be as follows:
First 14 days
Every 90 days for the 1st yr
Every 120 days after 1 yr
Choice every 180 days
This is on site supervision.
We will possibly be creating a new care plan due to the changes that our being required:
A start and end date
Recipient's name and phone number
Emergency number, procedure and a description of action to identify safety and vulnerability issues
including a back-up staffing plan.
Name and instructions on contacting the responsible party.
ADLs, recipient's needs for assistance, special instructions and procedures.
Month to month plan for the use of PCA services.
Date and signatures of the recipient/responsible party and RN.
Please continue to check on the website and also we will be mailing out
a newsletter that will have more information covered also.
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