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Home Health Clinical Measures
Resource List for Home Health Agency Consumers
This is a partial listing of frequently used resources. When contacting any of the organizations listed below, be sure to ask if they have suggestions about additional resources you may want to contact.
Government Agencies:
Rhode Island Department of Health
Division of Facilities Regulation
Telephone: (401) 222-2566 (weekdays 8:30 am-4:30 pm)
Telephone TYY (401) 222-2506
Telephone after hours URGENT: (401) 272-5952
Telephone Home Health COMPLAINT HOT LINE 1-800-228-2716
Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs
General Information and Referral Assistance (Weekdays 8:30am-4:30 pm)
Telephone: (401) 462-3000 or 1-800-322-2880
Telephone TYY (401) 222-2880
Fax: (401) 222-2130
Rhode Island Department of Human Services
Client Services, Medicaid Eligibility
Telephone: (401) 462-2354
Telephone Nights/Sundays/holidays: (401) 351-6500
Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General
Consumer Protection Division
Telephone: (401) 222-2104 or 1-800-852-7776
Medicaid Fraud hotline: (401) 521-7690
Consumer and Provider Service Organizations:
Alzheimer’s Association-RI Chapter
245 Waterman Street, Suite 306
Providence, RI 02906
Telephone (401) 421-0008 or (800) 244-1428
Fax: (401) 421-0115
Web address: www.alz.ri.org
Alliance for Better Long Term Care
422 Post Road, Suite 204
Warwick, RI 02888
Telephone: (401) 785-3340 (9am-5pm)
Fax: (401) 785-3391
Eldercare Locator
Telephone: (800) 677-1116 Mon-Fri 9am-8pm
Web address: www.eldercare.gov
Rhode Island Bar Association
Legal Information and Referral Service for the Elderly
115 Cedar Street
Providence, RI 02903
Telephone: (401) 421-1666
Telephone TYY: (401) 521-5040
Web address: www.ribar.com
National Association for Home Care
Web address: www.nahc.com
Click on “Consumers” Link
The Rhode Island Partnership for Home Care, Inc.
PO Box 603309
Providence, RI 02906
Telephone: (401) 722-9090
Fax: (401) 722-9095
Email address: riphc@aol.com
Aging 2000
One Richmond Square
Providence, RI 02906
(401) 521-7930
Web address: www.aging2k.org
AARP
Web address: www.aarp.org
Visiting Nurse Associations of America
Web address: www.vnaa.org
Click on the “About home health” link
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