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LINCS Healthcare's Hospital to Home Care Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and Allied Health Care is funded via a number of sources. |
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For all of our funding sources, LINCS provides comprehensive and regular feedback about the patient to the patient’s GP, treating specialist and funding sources, where applicable. Excellent communication is an essential part of the LINCS Healthcare experience.
Department of Veterans' Affairs LINCS’ fully funded DVA Community Nursing offers a range of Nursing and Personal Cares to eligible Veterans in the comfort of their own home. Our services are flexible and designed specifically around your needs. Our nursing services include:
Coordinated Veterans Care Program (CVC) The CVC program is a relatively new program designed to provide case assessments of DVA Gold Card holders who are at risk of hospitalisation. Through improved community-based care, the program is intended to improve the health of participants by:
LINCS Healthcare is approved by DVA to provide the community nursing component for the GPs. There are no co-payments for the DVA client and the GP is paid separately to LINCS Healthcare. The CVC Program provides new payments to GPs of $250 for enrolling a participant in the program. LINCS' nurses are highly regarded for their experienced case management, delivery of client-focussed care, and as a responsive and highly accessible service. As DVA requires one home visit within the first month of entering the program, LINCS Healthcare is ideally placed to provide this home visit for this program. Are you a GP with DVA patients? Would you like LINCS to show you how to enrol your DVA patients onto the CVC program? If so, please contact LINCS Healthcare on 1300 054 627 for more information on how you can participate in this program.
The Transition Care Program (TCP) The Transition Care Program offers packages of care to persons over the age of 70 years, who are in hospital and who need temporary support in their own homes for a limited time of 8-12 weeks. Packages are tailored to the individual needs of the person deemed eligible by a Transition Care Assessor. LINCS has been approved to provide a range of services, such as rehabilitation involving Occupational therapy, Physiotherapy, Nursing and/or Personal Care, in accordance with the needs assessed by the assessor.
Work Cover and the Dust Diseases Board LINCS provides the full range of supports for Work Cover and the Dust Diseases Board (DDB). Work Cover and DDB usually fund for a specific time depending on the needs of the patient. All cares provided by LINCS are under the direction of the patient’s treating GP and/or specialist medical practitioner. In line with the policies of Work Cover, ‘the worker must have a medical certificate or have been referred by a registered medical practitioner’ before LINCS can provide any treatment. Work Cover assessors manage all claims. LINCS is not able to commence services until the Work Cover assessor has approved the claim.
CSAP (Community Sub-Acute care Program) Our CSAP funding is specifically for the Sunshine Coast. CSAP funding is very much like Post-Acute funding. It is short-term funding of 4-6 weeks but, unlike DVA funding, is available for all ages. CSAP is run by the Transition Care Program (TCP), but unlike TCP assessments are made by the case assessors from the TCP program and not by ACAT assessors. Like all of the government funded programs, to be eligible to provide services the provider must be on a register of providers, and each provider has to apply to provide services through the round of tenders put out by the government from time to time. This process is very competitive and not every one who applies gets the funding.
LINCS is funded through private health funds such as AHM, Rehability, MBF, Medicare Private, NIB, BUPA, Australian Unity, Defence Health and other health funds. Private health funds will fund a range of our services depending on your needs. Many Health funds appreciate that we offer a rapid response model with cares in place within 24 hrs from the point of referral. Clients must be assessed by the Hospital Discharge Coordinator, usually during their hospital stay.
Post Acute via Public Hospitals This funding is part of the public hospital funding, and is designed to get people out of hospital quicker, by funding a community health care provider to take of the person in their own home. LINCS is often funded by these hospitals to provide cares for their patients once they are sent home. Usually, this funding is only for a 2-week period, and the type of cares depends on the assessed needs of the patient. A hospital discharge facilitator conducts the patient’s assessment and decides what cares that person will require. LINCS Healthcare provides community health care support to the hospitals Post Acute programs with Nursing, Personal Care, Occupational therapy and/or Physiotherapy services. Many hospitals appreciate that we offer a rapid response model - with cares in place within 24 hrs from the point of referral or on the same day of the referral if it is considered urgent. Depending on the needs of the patient, LINCS offers reduced rates for those who can make it to our Care Clinic. We can also negotiate a half-hourly rate depending on the needs of the patient. For example, for those who may need a TEDS stocking change, or medication administration, or simple wound care that only requires a short visit.
LINCS offers additional support to people who need more than the basic services provided by many of the domiciliary public community health providers. We offer individually tailored care plans that can provide a range of cares depending on the needs of the client. Many private clients require services for specific times throughout the day and/or multiple hours, such as 8, 12, or 24 hr nursing and/or personal care support in the client’s own home. Specific hours needed are negotiated and are flexible, so that as the client’s needs change, so too can the times and types of cares provided. Clients are supported to maintain their independence in areas such as shopping, cooking, laundering, cleaning, and attending appointments. For a free assessment of your needs for services please refer to our Complimentary Assessments page or fill out the form on our Contacts page. We can organise with you to have one of our qualified Clinical Nurses come to your home and conduct a free assessment of your needs. Once the assessment has been conducted and agreed on with you or your carer, the assessor will provide you with a detailed care plan which will include an itemised quote for services.
CACPs, EACH and EACHD via brokerage arrangements LINCS provides Community Aged Care Packages (CACPS), Extended Aged Care at Home (EACH) packages, and Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia (EACHD) packages, via a brokerage arrangement we have with another community health care provider. Through this arrangement, LINCS delivers the services for these packages. These specialised packages of care are designed for older people, and who have complex care needs, and to help them to remain in their own homes. Clients receiving these packages must be first assessed and approved as being eligible by an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT). These assessments can be ordered through a GP, a hospital discharge facilitator, or by a qualified LINCS Healthcare Staff person.
Palliative Care Queensland is the peak organisation for palliative care in Queensland, representing the interests and aspirations of all who share the ideal of quality care at the end of life for all. Palliative Care QLD provides coordinated medical, nursing and allied services for people who are terminally ill, delivered where possible in the environment of the person’s choice, and which provides physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual support for patients, and support for patient’s families and friends. The provision of hospice and palliative care services includes grief and bereavement support for the family and other carers during the life of the patient and continuing after death. LINCS Healthcare has been approved by Palliative Care QLD to supply Nursing and Allied health care services within the Noosa Community areas, and within the Caloundra and Hinterland, Maroochydore and Nambour areas.
If you need to find out more, please navigate to our Contacts page and enter your details, or fill out our free assessment form under the Complimentary Assessments page and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Alternatively, you can ring us on:
1300 054 627
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