Eligibility For Grant Assistance

(1) An applicant must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for grant assistance under this program. (a) The applicant must reside or have resided after June 30, 1992 in a nursing home licensed as such by the State of Tennessee; and (b) The applicant’s per them nursing home care must not have been reimbursed in whole or in part by a state and/or federal medical care program for any day for which grant assistance is requested; and (c) The applicant shall not have applied for any state and/or federal medical care program for which the appropriate agency has not made a final determination; and (d) The applicant must meet the financial qualifications as provided in rule 0720-45.03; and (e) The applicant must file a complete application on forms prescribed by the department. (2) Residents in nursing homes certified as intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded are not eligible for grant assistance under this program. (3) After a final determination has been made on an applicant’s application for a state and/or federal medical care program for which he previously applied, he will then be eligible to apply for grant assistance. At that time, he may request grant assistance for any days for which the state and/or federal medical care program did not provide financial per them reimbursement for nursing home care and for which grant assistance has not been previously provided. (4) Applicants will be notified if the department determines them ineligible for grant assistance.