Community Directed Services (CDS)

Are you looking for Texas home health services that can be self-directed through the Community Directed Services (CDS) program? We offer a variety of Texas home health services that qualify for this program, including Primary Home Care (PHC), Family Care (FC), Community Attendant Services (CAS), Personal Care Services (PCS), Community Based Alternatives (CBA), Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities (DBMD). If you or a loved one is a resident of North Texas currently utilizing services from Texas Health and Human Services Commission, you have the power to choose Ultimate Home Health Care as your self-directed service provider to meet your needs in any of these areas.

What is Consumer Directed Services (CDS)?

The Consumer Directed Services (CDS) program allows people who use services from Texas Health and Human Services Commission to hire and manage the people who provide their services. The Consumer Directed Services program is the result of Senate Bill 1586, 76th Texas Legislature, wherein a voucher payment option can be used to empower consumers to make their own decisions related to the delivery of personal care assistance and respite care services within their current residence and community-based program.

The Consumer Directed Services (CDS) grant DADS consumers to employ and supervise the persons who cater to their care needs. (CDS was formerly called the Vendor Fiscal Intermediary Option.)

This program is the result of Senate Bill 1586, 76th Texas Legislature, wherein a voucher payment option can be used to empower consumers to make their own decisions related to the delivery of personal care assistance and respite care services within their current residence and community-based program.

Services offered by Ultimate Home Health Care that can be self-directed through CDS.

For more information and to see if you qualify, please call 972-240-4700.