Home First

PruittHealth offers in-home services to eligible elderly and disabled people receiving SSI, active full Medicaid, or pending Medicaid coverage.

Pruitt-Health offers services in your home for your health care needs.

PruittHealth Home First

PruittHealth Home First is a program designed to help eligible patients receive care in their home. Our program is dedicated to ensuring your safety and improving your overall health. We offer adult day health, emergency response, home meal delivery, support services, and much more in order to meet and exceed your individual health care needs and expectations.

Georgia Requirements and Services

 

Program requirements:

  • 65 years old or older and/or disabled
  • Receiving Medicaid and SSI
  • Medical conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, lung disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, heart disease, or stroke that require monitoring and regular doctor's care

 

Services:

  • Adult day health
  • Create and implement an individualized care plan
  • Education on the disease process, treatment goals and self-care management
  • Regularly review personalized Health Plan with member and primary care physician
  • Management of conditions in home to prevent rehospitalization, ER visit, and unplanned physician's visit
  • Bathing, dressing, toileting, hygiene, oral care and medication reminders,
  • Basic home activities - meal preparation and cleanup, light housekeeping, laundry, etc.
  • Transportation to and from the doctor or other appointments and errands
  • Campanionship, respite care
  • Home safety clearance and Emergency Response Monitoring System

North Carolina Requirements and Services

 

Program requirements:

  • 18 years old or older and disabled
  • A level of institutional care under the State Medicaid Plan
  • Needs at least one or more home- and community-based services based on an assessment

 

Services:

  • Adult day health
  • One or two in-home aides
  • Equipment, modification, and technology
  • Meal preparation and delivery
  • Institutional and in-home aide respite services
  • Personal Emergency Response Services (PERS)
  • Specialized medical supplies
  • Services including pest eradication, nutritional services, non-medical transportation, and chore assistance such as decluttering and garbage disposal
  • Community transition and integration
  • Training, education, and consultative services
  • Coordinated caregiving
  • Case management and care advisement
  • Personal assistance
  • Financial management
  • Consumer directed services, a service delivery model that allows the Home First beneficiary to act as an employer of their personal care assistant

 

PruittHealth Home First (Albany)

202 North Westover Boulevard

Albany, GA 31707

tel: (229) 878-0128

fax: (229) 878-1093

        

PruittHealth Home First (Athens)

1571 Meriweather Drive

Watkinsville, GA 30677

tel: (706) 549-3315

fax: (706) 549-5118

    

PruittHealth Home First (Augusta)

1220 Augusta West Pkwy

Augusta, GA 30909

tel: (706) 651-1535

fax: (706) 863-9401

  

PruittHealth Home First (Blue Ridge) 

6050 Appalachian Highway

Blue Ridge, GA 30513

tel: (706) 632-9263

fax: (706) 632-0028

    

PruittHealth Home First (Macon)

6060 Lakeside Commons Drive

Macon, GA 31210

tel: (478) 474-0979

fax: (478) 474 2068

        

PruittHealth Home First (North Atlanta)

1626 Jeurgens Court

Norcross, GA 30093

tel: (770) 925-1143

fax: (678) 533-6488

    

PruittHealth Home First (Savannah)

9100 White Bluff Road, Suite 303

Savannah, GA 31406

tel: (912) 925-9181

fax: (912) 925-9341

  

PruittHealth Home First  (South Atlanta)

1626 Jeurgens Court

Norcross, GA 30093

tel: (770) 925-1143

fax: (678) 533-6488

    

PruittHealth Home First (Valdosta)

312 Canna Drive

Valdosta, GA 31602

tel: (229) 241-8750

fax: (229) 241-8940

  

PruittHealth Home First (Yancey)

This location also offers home aide service.

200 Medical Campus Drive

Burnsville, NC 28714

tel: (828) 682-7967

fax: (828) 678-9146