Alliance Offers Home-delivered Meals to Innovations and TBI Waiver Members

Under North Carolina’s emergency modifications to Innovations and TBI Waiver services, Alliance is now offering members in those programs home-delivered meals to address food insecurities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The service is available within the Alliance service area for both Innovations and TBI Waiver members living in their own home or with family. It offers members up to two meals per day, seven days a week. Members can choose which two meals they want from a broad menu of breakfast, lunch or dinner meals.

The home-delivered meals are intended to help ensure that members have access to nutritious food regardless of other family hardships. Alliance LTS Supervisor Keshia Bunch said many members and their families may be experiencing food insecurity as a result of uncertainties brought on by the pandemic. “Any financial impact that they may have experienced as a family could result in food insecurity,” she said. “We may have waiver recipients who have brothers and sisters who used to attend school and now they’re at home, so they may be eating more and putting a heavier burden on the family in terms of food.”

The meals are provided by a vendor, Mom’s Meals®, which delivers refrigerated meals nationwide and can provide meals tailored to meet the needs of common medical conditions, like diabetes, kidney problems, cancer and heart disease.

The service is made available by temporary changes to the waivers through Section 1915 (c) waiver Appendix K, which states may use to ensure that current home and community-based services enrollees continue to receive needed services, support providers, and cover additional people during the emergency. Currently, the flexibilities allowed by Appendix K will remain in place until March 2021.

Alliance members receiving Innovations or TBI Waiver services should speak with their Care Navigators if they are interested in learning more about this service.

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