Short stays
A few days or a few weeks in a small licensed home, so the person who does the caring can rest, travel, or get through a hard stretch. Our help comes at no cost to your family.
How a short stay works
- It's a real stay in an assisted living home licensed by AHCA, with an end date set before it starts.
- Your person lives there like any resident: meals, help with bathing and dressing, help with medicines, and someone awake and nearby.
- We look for homes with a bed open for your dates.
- Each home sets its own shortest and longest stay, its daily rate, and how much notice it needs.
- Medicaid long-term care plans cover respite. If your person has one, ask the plan's case manager first. We'll show homes that take your plan.
- Some families use a short stay to try a home before deciding on a move.
Tell us what you need
How will it be paid?
Does the person have Medicaid of any kind, or has anyone applied for it?
What's the stay for?
Please add your name and a phone number.
Thank you. We have your request. Someone from Miami Placement will reach out, and we check the dates with the homes before anyone visits.
What the home will usually ask for
- A recent health exam on AHCA Form 1823 or the doctor's own form. Ask the doctor early. It can take a week.
- Enough medicine for the whole stay, in the pharmacy bottles with the labels on. Pill organizers filled at home can't be used.
- A current list of medicines, any allergies, and the doctor's name and phone.
- A DNRO on the yellow state form, if your person has one. Insurance cards and a photo ID.
Every home decides for itself whether a guest is ready to come in. We don't collect these papers. They go straight to the home you choose.
Our help comes at no cost to your family. Homes pay us a referral fee only for private pay families we introduce. No home pays us for Medicaid families, and we still help them.