The Global Options (GO) Nursing Facility Transition (NFT) program helps people over the age of 65 and physically disabled adults between the ages of 21 and 64 who are in nursing homes but want to return to their own homes. People who are eligible are given services that will help them to return safely and affordably to their home and community. GO NFT is available in all 21 counties.
How do I know if I am eligible for GO NFT?
In order to be eligible for GO NFT, you must be financially and clinically (medically) eligible.
Financial Eligibility Requirements
If you receive SSI, Institutional Level of Medicaid, or NJ CARE or meet the financial eligibility requirement of any of these programs, you will be financially eligible. This means that if your monthly income is less than or equal to $1,911 in 2008, and you do not have resources more than $2,000, you will be financially eligible.
Clinical Eligibility Requirements
To be clinically eligible, you must need a nursing home level of care and be able to be safely placed in a home and/or community-based setting with supportive services. In order to determine this, the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services’ Regional Office of Community Choice Options has to evaluate you. Nursing home residents who are interested in GO NFT should call their Regional Office of Community Choice Options (see the box below for the number of your local office).
What are GO NFT Services?
If you are eligible, services are offered based on your needs. Your needs will be determined by a group called an Interdisciplinary Team (IDT). The IDT includes you, any family members (or a legal representative) that you want to participate, the nursing home social worker, the state’s Community Choice Counselor, the Community Care Manager, and other appropriate health providers. The IDT is responsible for making a complete plan of care for you, and must consider certain things like your abilities, support systems in your community, and the availability of services.
GO NFT services include all New Jersey Medicaid State Plan services (including physician and hospital care) except for Personal Care Assistants and Medicaid Hospice. In addition to State Plan services, your plan of care may include the following services through GO NFT:
- Assisted living/adult family care;
- Respite care;
- Homemaker services;
- Environmental accessibility adaptations;
- Personal emergency response systems;
- Home-delivered meal service;
- Caregiver/participant training;
- Social adult day care;
- Special medical equipment and supplies;
- Chore services;
- Transportation;
- Attendant care;
- Home-based supportive care; and
- Participant-employed providers.
For more information about GO NFT, go to the Department of Health and Senior Services or contact your local Legal Services program or Legal Services of New Jersey by calling LSNJ-LAW™, Legal Services of New Jersey’s statewide, toll-free legal hotline, at 1-888-LSNJ-LAW (1-888-576-5529) Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
To contact your Regional Office of Community Choice Options:
Northern Regional Office (Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex and Warren Counties):
Phone: (973) 648-4691.
Central Regional Office (Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset and Union Counties):
Phone: (732) 777-4650.
Southern Regional Office (Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, and Salem Counties):
Phone: (609) 704-6050 |
