Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1430FY0102

RAMPART GROUP, INC. dba THE EMBERS SPECIAL CARE, RESEARCHA ND FAMILY CENTER- SPECIALIZING WITH ALZHEIMER'S AND DMENNTIA VICTIMS

Requester:

Raymond Benoit

Organization:

RAMPART GROUP, INC. dba THE EMBERS SPECIAL CARE, RESEARCH AND FAMILY CENTER - SPECIALIZING WITH ALZH

Project Title:

RAMPART GROUP, INC. dba THE EMBERS SPECIAL CARE, RESEARCHA ND FAMILY CENTER- SPECIALIZING WITH ALZHEIMER'S AND DMENNTIA VICTIMS

Date Submitted:

1/17/2002 8:59:53 PM

Sponsors:

Howard Futch

Statewide Interest:

To build a facility to implement work accomplished by our research and pilot programs, and then duplicate it throughout the State. Each facility will support each specific community and is projected to save 42% on health care costs over a 10 year period reducing costs to the State Medicaid system.� This savings becomes more meaningful whe4n the baby boomers come on line.

Recipient:

Rampart Group, Inc.

Contact:

Raymond Benoit

1545 N. Cocoa Blvd.

Contact Phone:

(321) 634-5404

Cocoa 32922

Counties:

Brevard

Gov't Entity:

Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):

Yes

Project Description:

This 29,712 square foot Center, to support Alzheimer's and dementia victims will be built around a 7,981 square foot garden type courtyard.� The patient's rooms will open up into a large living area overlooking the garden type courtyard. Meet the 2 major challenges to overcome in meeting their basic human needs in the case of treatment of people with with this devasting disease: 1) the need for dignity, the need for creativity, to reduce stress and anxiety, to imporve and extend the quality of life for both the caregiver and the care recipient and 2) to reduce the huge cost to society and to families by delaying long term nursing care. The Embers hope to keep loved ones in their home environment for a longer period of time.

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

The implementation of our programs for caregiver intervention and our multi-therapeutic intervention, we hope to solve these cqhallenges, reflected in #7.� This in turn will lengthen time spent in home care and reduce the stress factor with caregivers, to stop early placement into long term care.� Because of excessive stress the participant is dumped to enable the caregiver to escape.� We are designing our program to eliminate or deduce this practice, which has placed excessive financial burden on the Medicaid system.� We estimate we could see overall savings of about 42% in overall health care cost with our preliminary research data projected over a ten year period, using 2001 cost.� This data is based on the premises that we extend in-home care by a factor of 2.3

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$268,372

Total cost of the project:

$888,603

Request has been made to fund:

Construction

What type of match exists for this project?

None

Was this project previously funded by the State?

No

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

Yes

Amount:

$424,054

Purpose for future year funding:

Recuring Construction

Will this be an annual request?

No

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

No

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

No

Is there a documented need for this project?

Yes

Documentation:

The need for a new model to the care of Alz's patients & to protect the system for future generation

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

No