Take Me Home (TMH) Transition Program

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West Virginia was awarded a Money Follows the Person (MFP) Demonstration grant by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2011. West Virginia's MFP program, which is administered by the W​est Virginia Bureau for Medical Services (BMS), is called Take Me Home (TMH), West Virginia. The purpose of MFP is to support state Medicaid programs such as the BMS in providing people with long-term care needs​ a greater choice of where to live and receive needed services and support. Each state MFP program consists of two parts: 

1. A transition program to identify Medicaid members living in long-term care facilities (such as nursing homes) who wish to live in the community and help them do so; and
   
2. A rebalancing program through which states make system-wide changes  to their State's long-term care systems to enhance home and community-based service options for Medicaid beneficiaries.
   

Since the inception of the MFP demonstration, forty-five states and the District of Columbia and two territories, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, have been awarded grant funding to plan and implement MFP demonstrations. For more information about the Money Follows the Person demonstration, please visit Money Follows The Person - CMS.

The Take Me Home (TMH) Transition Program

The purpose of the TMH Transition Program is to identify qualifying residents of long-term care facilities in West Virginia who wish to return to their own homes and apartments in the community and provide them with the services and support they need to do so. A network of TMH field staff located throughout the state work one on one with qualifying residents of long-term care facilities and hospital patients to identify what is needed to safely and successfully transition to the community and to develop a comprehensive, person-centered Transition Plan. More information about who qualifies for TMH  the services the TMH Transition Program can provide to help individuals transition to the community can be found by clicking here.