Individual Skills Development

Developing more complex skills through hands-on teaching how to:
• Cook, do laundry, grocery shop, budget, pay bills, use public transportation, etc.

Community Integration

Assistance and teaching through participation in community activities like:
• Social events, clubs, recreational activities, volunteering, job exploration

Personal Assistant

Assisting with tasks that can’t be accomplished independently like:
• Bathing, personal care, transfers, ambulation, grooming

Day Habilitation

Part Facility/part Community-based program to assist with skills acquisition and development.

Day Habilitation (DH) services are designed to assist the individual to acquire, improve and retain the self-help, socialization and adaptive skills that enhance social development and develop skills in performing activities of daily living (ADL) and community living. DH services may also be used to provide supported retirement activities.

DH services focus on enabling the participant to attain or maintain their maximum potential and shall be coordinated with any needed therapies in the individual’s person-centered service plan, such as physical, occupational or speech therapy. DH may not provide services that are vocational in nature. Activities and environments are designed to foster the acquisition of skills, building positive social behavior, interpersonal competence, greater independence and personal choice.

Activities should be appropriate to the setting and occur in the most natural setting possible to maximize transference of skill acquisition. This should not only occur in the facility, but on a regular basis in the community to use in a real life situations..

Medical Day Habilitation

Individuals with exceptional medical support needs may be granted a medical exception for Day Hab services. Exceptional medical supports require services from the following:

• A certified nursing assistance (CNA), a licensed practical nurse (LPN) within their scope of practice as prescribed by the state law,
• A registered nurse (RN),
• Or for mobility, by appropriately trained staff.

The process must include the identification and rationale for staffing ratios and the level of direct care provided to meet the identified needs and be clearly documented in their support plan. 

The intent of the medical exception day service is to provide an enhanced level of services and supports to individuals requiring one of both of the following:

• Direct care, assessment, care coordination and/or planning by a RN or an LPN (under the direct supervision and oversight of an RN) within their scope of practice
• Nursing tasks that are delegated by a RN and performed by unlicensed health care personnel under the direct supervision and oversight of a RN

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Individual Skills Development

Developing more complex skills through hands-on teaching how to:
• Cook, do laundry, grocery shop, budget, pay bills, use public transportation, etc.

Community Integration

Assistance and teaching through participation in community activities like:
• Social events, clubs, recreational activities, volunteering, job exploration

Personal Assistant

Assisting with tasks that can’t be accomplished independently like:
• Bathing, personal care, transfers, ambulation, grooming

Day Habilitation

Part Facility/part Community-based program to assist with skills acquisition and development.

Day Habilitation (DH) services are designed to assist the individual to acquire, improve and retain the self-help, socialization and adaptive skills that enhance social development and develop skills in performing activities of daily living (ADL) and community living. DH services may also be used to provide supported retirement activities.

DH services focus on enabling the participant to attain or maintain their maximum potential and shall be coordinated with any needed therapies in the individual’s person-centered service plan, such as physical, occupational or speech therapy. DH may not provide services that are vocational in nature. Activities and environments are designed to foster the acquisition of skills, building positive social behavior, interpersonal competence, greater independence and personal choice.

Activities should be appropriate to the setting and occur in the most natural setting possible to maximize transference of skill acquisition. This should not only occur in the facility, but on a regular basis in the community to use in a real life situations..

Medical Day Habilitation

Individuals with exceptional medical support needs may be granted a medical exception for Day Hab services. Exceptional medical supports require services from the following:

• A certified nursing assistance (CNA), a licensed practical nurse (LPN) within their scope of practice as prescribed by the state law,
• A registered nurse (RN),
• Or for mobility, by appropriately trained staff.

The process must include the identification and rationale for staffing ratios and the level of direct care provided to meet the identified needs and be clearly documented in their support plan. 

The intent of the medical exception day service is to provide an enhanced level of services and supports to individuals requiring one of both of the following:

• Direct care, assessment, care coordination and/or planning by a RN or an LPN (under the direct supervision and oversight of an RN) within their scope of practice
• Nursing tasks that are delegated by a RN and performed by unlicensed health care personnel under the direct supervision and oversight of a RN

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