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OFFICE FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
SERVICE FEES
Personal Care - In order tocalculate personal care charges you would use the following formula: # ofunits (personal care units needed per week - see PC rating sheet) x $36.00per unit x 15 weeks.
“Personal care begins at 3pm on August 23rd 2008 and will be available until noon the day after breaks. Start up for the spring semester will be 3pm on January 11th 2009. Breaks include Thanksgiving break, between semester break, and spring break.”
2) (6.25units) Full bowel routine: This involves transferring student to showerchair and doing complete routine either involving enema or digital stimulationand extraction. It also involves clean-up.
3) (5units) Partial bowel routine: This involves assisting student intransferring and assisting student with routine. This involves assistingstudent with any equipment and clean-up.
4) (2.5units) Male catheterization: A routine urine clean cath. or sterilecatheterization. This is done on a routine every four to six hours.
5) (3.75units) Female catheterization: This involves transferring student tobed. Routine every six hours. This involves a sterile procedure.
6) (1.25units) Catheter care: To cleanse around catheter as necessary to preventinfection and skin breakdown.
7) (1.25units) Emptying leg bags: This involves emptying leg bags as often asnecessary.
8) (5units) Laundry and room cleaning: This involves doing laundry and roomcleaning once a week and emergency loads as necessary.
9) (2.5units) Personal hygiene: This involves brushing teeth, shaving, nailcare, etc.
10) (6.25units) Full shower: This involves transfer to shower chair. Studentneeds to be completely assisted in the shower.
11) (3.75units) Assist shower: This involves minimal assistance in theshower. Assist with back and legs.
12) (2.5units) Make-up and hair styling: This involves washing hair and applyingmake-up upon student request.
13) (3.75units) Dressing: This involves completely dressing student from head totoe.
14) (2.5units) Assist dressing: This involves assisting with shoes, socks,zippering and buttoning. Helping with the final touch.
15) (1.25units) Administration of medication: This involves helping students withdisabilities take medication.
16) (1.25units) Assist with snacks: Help students with snacks, soft drinks, orfruit juices as necessary.
17) (1.25units) Turning in bed: Assist student to turn in bed at night asnecessary.
18) (1.25units) Menstrual needs: This involves application and removal of sanitarynapkins or tampons.
19) (2.5units) Range of motion: This involves taking a person's joint and doingflexion and extension to prevent joints from becoming stiff and inflexible.
20) (3.75units) Life support/require daily maintenance: Oxygen, IPPB, Suction,Respirator, and trach. care.
21) (3.75units) Non-verbal
22) (1.25units) Devices: Broken wheelchair, missing or broken orthotics. Thecharge for devices will be added as the need for these devices arises and willbe charged weekly and billed on a monthly basis.
Van Transportation - $2,900.00 per semesteror $193.34 per week
The vans are also available, but at an extra cost, for internships,extra-curricular activities and prearranged trips. These trips would becharged at $.44/mile and $18.00/hour on weekdays and $27.00/hour onweekends.
Wheelchair maintenance - $450.00 per student
Parts over $20.00 each will be billed to the student.
Hospital Bed Rental - $300.00 per semester
Based upon availability of beds.
If you have any questions regarding the OSD fees and costs, please feel freeto call us at (814) 732-2462.
All fees are subject to change without notice.
