Northwest Colorado Options for Long Term Care (NWCOLTC) is a regional program that is administered by Garfield County Department of Human Services. NWCOLTC serves the following nine counties: Garfield, Eagle, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Moffat, Routt, Summit, Grand and Jackson.

Vision: To improve access to publicly funded long term care services and facilitate utilization of appropriate services by long term care clients.

Mission: To provide a single access or entry point where a current or potential long term care client can obtain long term care information, screening, assessment of need, and referral to appropriate long term care programs and case management.

Northwest Colorado Options for Long Term Care Programs

All Medicaid programs through Northwest Colorado Options for Long Term Care (NWCOLTC) have a financial and functional eligibility component. An individual must be both financially and functionally eligible in order to receive services under any of these programs. The financial eligibility component is completed by the county eligibility staff in the County where the recipient resides. The functional eligibility is determined by NWCOLTC. Functional eligibility assessments address how an individual functions on a day to day basis. The individual must be determined to meet the criteria for institutional level of care.

Children’s Home and Community Based Service Program
A waiver program for disabled children, birth through 17 years of age who are at risk of institutionalization in a hospital or nursing facility and would not otherwise be eligible for Medicaid due to parental income and/or resources.

Consumer Directed Care Program
A program that enables people with disabilities to manage their own attendant services. Consumers who are on this program hire, train, supervise and manage their own attendants. The individual can set their own attendant schedule and determine what services the attendants provide.

Home Care Allowance
A special non-entitlement allowance for the purpose of helping individual purchase in-home services to assist that individual in remaining in their own home.

Home and Community Based Services for the Brain Injured (HCBS-BI)
A waiver program that provides services in the home and/or community to individuals (16 to 64 years of age) meeting rehabilitation criteria and with cognitive deficits. An individual must be eligible for the program upon discharge from acute care (hospital), and who would require continued hospitalization without the intensive services of the HCBS-BI program.

Home and Community Based Services for the Elderly, Blind and Disabled (HCBS-EBD)
A waiver program that provides services in the home and/or community to individuals who are 18 years of age and older. An individual who is eligible for the program would require nursing facility care without the provision of HCBS-EBD services. Services a person could receive (depending on their needs and service availability) include: personal care, homemaker, adult day services, electronic monitoring, transportation, respite care, home modification, and alternative care facility.

Home and Community Based Services for Persons Living with AIDS (HCBS-PLWA)
A waiver program provided in a home or community setting to individual regardless of age who is HIV positive or has a diagnosis of AIDS.. The eligible individual would require hospital or nursing home level of care without services offered under the program.

Nursing Home Care
Assessment services available to persons living in the community who are accessing Medicaid admission to a nursing facility. This program also includes assessments of all individual who are currently receiving Medicaid care in a nursing facility.

NON-MEDICAID SERVICES
These programs do not have a financial eligibility component, but are dependent on availability of funds. There is a functional eligibility component.

Caregiver Support Program
Provides funding for respite care, equipment and educational opportunities for the caregiver of a person who is 60 years of age or older.

Senior Equipment and Services Program
Provides financial assistance to persons who are 60 years of age or older to help them purchase services or equipment that will enhance the safety and/or independence of that individual.

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