All professionals / For guardians
When you sign for someone, the choice has to hold up.
You're choosing where your ward will live, and you may have to explain why. Send me the needs, no name. You get homes that confirmed the bed and the price in writing, and a one-page summary of every home you considered.
I never pay or reward a guardian for choosing a home, and no home pays to be shown to you. A guardian can't take anything for choosing where a ward lives, and I won't ever offer.
What I know about your day
- You sign the admission, get the bills and make the decisions, not the family.
- Not every home is used to working with a guardian.
- Your ward's wishes count, like language, faith or being near someone they love.
How I help
- I send your request only to homes that say they work with court-appointed guardians.
- Bills and updates go to you, not the family, if that's what you need.
- The summary shows each home's answer, the bed, the price and the date, so you can show the choice was made for your ward.
- Court approval for the move is your call. The form only asks where it stands, so the home knows the timing.
- After the move, a visit checklist on your phone makes a dated report for each visit, and puts reminders in your own calendar: the quarterly visit the law requires, plus any extra visits you plan. Open the checklist.
Papers the home will usually ask for
- Letters of guardianship.
- The court order about where your ward lives, if the court required one.
- AHCA Form 1823, signed by a doctor, APRN or PA.
- Current medication list.
- Any advance directive or DNRO already in place.
- Social Security and Medicaid letters the home needs for billing.
- ID, Medicare and insurance cards, given at admission.
Every home has its own admission list, and the home decides. Once the family or guardian picks a home, fax these straight to that home. Miami Placement sends you the number. Please don't email records or attach them here.