Consumer Directed Services in Florissant, Missouri

For Florissant residents, Communicare Elite is the CDS vendor: MO HealthNet funds the care, you decide who provides it — a family member other than your spouse is allowed — and we run the payroll, paperwork and Medicaid billing behind it.

Why home care matters in Florissant

Florissant is one of the largest cities in Missouri and one of the oldest settlements in the region, and its post-war neighborhoods have aged along with the people who bought into them. Thousands of the ranches and split-levels built here in the 1950s and 60s are still occupied by their original owners or their children — people who have been in the same house for decades and have no intention of leaving it.

That is exactly the situation Consumer Directed Services was designed for. The split-level in particular is a quietly hostile design once mobility declines: a half-flight to the bedrooms, another half-flight to the laundry, and no way to live on one level. Rather than sell a paid-off house and move into a facility, many Florissant families find that a few hours of help each day — with bathing, with the stairs, with laundry that lives in the basement — is the whole difference. Christian Hospital and the medical offices along North Highway 67 are close by, which makes the transportation side of a care plan straightforward here.

How CDS works for Florissant residents

Florissant residents start with the state: MO HealthNet eligibility first, then an in-home assessment arranged through the Department of Health and Senior Services on 866-835-3505, then an authorized plan. See all six steps.

What your attendant can be paid for

Personal care, meals, light housekeeping and rides are all typically authorizable. Your own plan is what decides. Full covered-task list.

Paying a family member in Florissant

With one of north county’s largest older populations, Florissant families frequently already provide the care. Every relationship except a spouse can be paid. The details.

Distance from our office

Communicare Elite is at 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 106, St. Louis, MO 63134, minutes from Lambert International Airport — roughly about 15 minutes from Florissant. Most business is handled by phone, but you are welcome at the office; call ahead so someone is expecting you.

Questions from Florissant families

My mother has lived in her Florissant house for forty years and refuses to move. Can CDS help her stay?

That is the program’s central purpose. CDS exists so that people assessed as needing a nursing facility level of care can remain in their own homes instead. She would need to meet the eligibility requirements and be assessed by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

Can I be paid to care for her if I live in Florissant too?

Yes, if you are not her spouse. Adult children are among the most common paid attendants in this program.

Is Florissant within your service area?

Yes — it is one of the closest communities to our Woodson Road office, roughly fifteen minutes away.

How and when does my attendant get paid?

You and your attendant sign biweekly timesheets and we run payroll from them. How timesheets and pay work.

Is there a waiting list?

The state assessment sets the timing, not a vendor queue. How to get the process moving.

Nearby communities we also serve

Ferguson · Hazelwood · Bridgeton · St. Louis County — or see the whole service area.