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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1983
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Forsyth County Fire Chief Jake Moore (foreground,
right) presents a certificate to Greg Ramey (left), who
was part of a large class of EMTs graduating recently
from the "First Responder” course. The 40-hour
course, offered to Emergency Medical Technicians,
was taught by Fire Department Training Chief Jim Avery
(kneeling, second from left). Those graduating from the
class were Billy Phillips, Johnny Cunningham, Glenn
Community Care Aims At Cost-Effectiveness
A Health Alternative
The increasing popularity of home health care was evi
denced in Forsyth County recently by the location of a home
health agency in Cumming.
While there are private firms all over Georgia specializing
in home health care, the Georgia Legislature also plans to
begin a public program of home health under the Community
Care Act of 1981, which goes into effect in 1985.
The principal goals of the act include providing a cost
effective alternative to nursing home care for individuals
who can be maintained at home or in the community.
The act’s purpose is to assist functionally impaired elderly
persons in living “dignified and reasonably independent
lives” in their own homes, or in the homes of “caregivers.”
The act was based on the belief that it is a “socially
desirable and worthwhile goal” to enable older Georgians to
remain at home or with their families as long as possible. The
act also was developed because community care services are
said to be less expensive to Georgia taxpayers than institutio
nal services.
Priority for community care will be given to persons
certified for institutional nursing care benefits under Medi
caid.
Other individuals also will be eligible for community care
services, but services to those individuals will be limited by
available resources. Which of these individuals are served
will depend on economic and social factors.
Under the act, the Georgia Department of Human Re
sources (DHR) will be required to develop and implement a
plan for a community care system. The DHR also will be
required to do the following:
Establish geographic areas and designate lead agencies
for the delivery of community care services in those areas.
Maintain the current effort of community services.
Make use of all other funding sources before using state
funds for community care services for the elderly.
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Big Year Ahead
By Linda Taylor
The Forsyth County Hu
mane Society would like to
invite you to join us in our
progress in 1983. We are
looking forward to a very big
year.
We have lots of projects
coining up and would like
for new people to bring us
their ideas, opinions and
knowledge. We are planning
an auction in March and a
horse show in May and seve
ral other projects that would
interest almost everyone.
The Humane Society is all
made up of volunteer work
ers, but we don’t expect any
one to donate all of their free
time, you can put in as much
or as little time as you want.
We need people to make
phone calls during the day,
write letters, visit mer
chants and businesses and
GO AHEAD!
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‘First Responder’ Graduates
go to schools to give presen
tations. We also meet with
civic groups to discuss dif
ferent things going on within
the county.
We have foster homes who
take care of the animals that
are in our adoption program.
If you would be interested in
taking care of animals we
have that available.
In the warmer months we
have bake sales, so those of
you who bake are greatly
needed. We have something
to d 6 for everyone and we
welcome junior mem
berships for children.
The dues for the Humane
Society are $lO for an indi
vidual or a family, the dues
go toward the building fund
and animal maintenance. If
you are interested, please
call Betty MacDowall at 887-
3382.
Cunningham, Greg Emory Ramey, Carey Woodall, Ed
Siggelkow, John Poss, Katrina Bankston, Howell Gen
try, Scott Truitt, Aubrey Wayne Lindsey, Greg McGhee,
Ricky Waddell, Fred Brazee, John Nichols, Cecil
Martin, Carl Martin, Greg Martin, Wendell Roper, Tony
Reed, Walton Stahl, James E. Cobb, Ronald Dixon,
David Ridings, Phillip Martin and Dempsey Milford.
The DHR will be required to submit its plan by July 31,1983
to the DHR Board of Directors. Beginning Jan. 1, 1984, the
DHR also will be required to submit annual progress reports
on the implementation of the plan to key legislative leaders.
As for the lead agencies, each will have a planning, service
delivery and coordination function. The agencies will be
required to develop an annual service plan evaluating
community care needs in their service areas, identifying
priority services and target client groups, detailing ways by
which community care services will be delivered to their
service areas and predicting program costs and fees to be
charged for services.
Each lead agency will establish a community care system
to prevent unnecessary institutionalization. This system will
include, at the very least, assessment, case management,
homemaker services and home health services. It also will
include any two of the following services: in-home personal
care services, adult day health, adult day care, habilitation,
respite care, Older Americans Act Services, Title 20 Social
Services, Financial Assistance Services and health mainte
nance services. The lead agencies will either provide these
services themselves or through contracts with other agen
cies.
Other requirements placed on the DHR by the act include
providing assessments of the cost effectiveness of commu
nity care. The act states that community care is only cost
effective when the cost of services over a 12-month period is
less than the cost of care in a long-term care facility for the
same time period.
The DHR also is required to establish a mandatory
screening process for individuals who might be served under
the act.
The act encourages the full use of non-federal/state re
sources and authorizes the collection of fees, receipt of
contributions and the use of volunteers.
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