Help Protect Family Homecare In New York!

A looming crisis threatens thousands of the state’s most vulnerable elderly and disabled residents, potentially leaving them without essential care that preserves their independence and keeps them safe in their own homes.

Albany wants to gut the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP), which gives patients control and choice in who provides their care.

The Health Department admits the care of 80 percent of CDPAP participants statewide will be disrupted if this change is implemented, throwing patients’ lives into chaos and potentially endangering their health.

Thankfully, there is a solution! The state Senate Health and Mental Hygiene Budget bill – S.8007-B, Part XX– requires the Department of Health to conduct a study of the CDPAP program before any changes can be made, providing a reasonable and consistent path forward to ensure continuity of care for all.

It is critical that this proposal be included in the final budget agreement due April 1! 

Don’t let the state put elderly and disabled New Yorkers at risk. Join us today in telling the Governor and Albany legislators to adopt this simple fix to “SAVE CDPAP.”

 
 
 

What is family homecare?

Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP), or family homecare, allows patients to take control over their home healthcare by hiring a caregiver of their choice who is paid by Medicaid. The caregiver can be anyone a patient chooses – even a child, relative, neighbor or friend. CDPAP is a personalized alternative to traditional homecare, so patients can enjoy the comfort and the lifestyle they’re accustomed to, under the care of someone they know and trust.

 

Quality

Improving patient care

When patients know their caregivers, they have better health outcomes, are more likely to take their medications, experience fewer hospital visits, are less likely to be forced to live in a nursing home, and receive more affordable care than those who don’t use CDPAP.

Access

ACcess to affordable care

Where a patient lives should not determine the quality of homecare the patient receives when they’re sick. Family homecare ensures that New Yorkers have access to affordable care for their loved ones at home.

Safety

Ensuring Safe and fair service

Caregivers who know their patients best are naturally motivated to deliver the care they need. Knowing caregivers on a personal level helps to ease patient anxiety, and ensures your aging loved ones are receiving the best possible care.

 

Vulnerable New Yorkers NEED Family Homecare

Albany wants to make it harder for seniors and disabled New Yorkers to control their own health care by dramatically curtailing the CDPAP program.

Upending the lives of thousands of vulnerable patients, their families, and their caregivers while the state is still reeling from the COVID-19 crisis is both unnecessary and cruel.

Cutting CDPAP will also worsen an already significant home health workforce shortage that is making it difficult for patients to receive quality care in the safety and security of their own homes. 

Elderly, ailing, and disabled New Yorkers deserve better! The proposed Senate bill S.8376 will protect these vulnerable residents by creating new registration process that will increase quality assurance standards and state oversight while allowing the companies that administer the CDPAP program to continue operating without disrupting critical and life-saving care.