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Senate Community
Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2645 Diabetic Services for Homebound Patients |
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Requester: |
Dulce Cuetara |
Organization: |
First Quality Home Care, Inc. |
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Project Title: |
Diabetic Services for Homebound Patients |
Date Submitted: |
02/14/2000 11:29:12 AM |
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District Member: |
Alex Diaz de la Portilla |
Service Area: |
County |
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Counties Affected: |
Dade |
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Recipient: |
First Quality Home Care, Inc. |
Contact: |
Dulce Cuetara |
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5040 NW 7 Street, Suite #590 |
Contact Phone: |
(305) 569-6448 |
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Miami 33126 |
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Project Description: |
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This project will offer the Diabetic Home Bound Patient that is also legally blind, has Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, seizures or other diseases that interferes with the self administration of insulin, the opportunity to stay at home longer in his/her community without the necessity to move to a nursing home. It will monitor blood sugar levels, administer and/or prepare insulin shots and keeps the MD informed of the patient's disease process. |
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Services Provided/Benefit to State: |
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A Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse will monitor blood sugar levels, administer and/or prepare insulin shots and keeps the MD informed of the patient's disease process and prepares progress notes on diabetic/home bound patients that due to a secondary diagnosis are not able to self administer insulin to control the diabetes. However, these patients otherwise are able to live at home in the community. The benefit to the state is that it will save 1.5 to 2.6 million dollars in Nursing Home and it will free Nursing Home beds for other patients that are unable to live in their home any longer due to their disease process. Also there will be more savings by cutting the amount of hospital stays and MD visits because of missing dosages of insulin. |
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Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
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In nursing home fees there is an estimated savings of 1.5 to 2.6 million dollars a year and it will free Nursing Home beds for other patients that are unable to live in their home any longer due to their disease process. Also their will be more savings by cutting the amount of hospital stays and MD Visits because of missing dosages of insulin. |
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Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$600,000 |
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Total cost of the project: |
$630,000 |
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Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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Is there Local Government or Private match for this request? |
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Yes |
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In-Kind Amount: |
$30,000 |
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Was this project previously funded by the State? |
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No |
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Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$600,000 |
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Purpose for future year funding: |
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Recurring Operations |
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Will this be an annual request? |
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Yes |
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Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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Is there a documented need for this project? |
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Yes |
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Documentation: |
Medicaid and Nursing Home Statistics from the State of Florida |
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Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
No |
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