Please advise...my mother has been held

[djbaker1969]

at a state run mental institution for three years, finally, now they believe she has been stabilized enough to release her - but she needs to be placed in a nursing home. She is currently on medicaid. I wish to somehow have her moved to NJ:

1) Must I have a POA to hire an attorney (I do not currently have one and I doubt she'd give me one due to mental health issues).

2) Can a NJ attorney get her approved for medicaid in NJ and place her in a proper nursing home?

3) Ballpark figure - how much would it cost to have an attorney get her medicaid transferred to NJ and have her placed in a nursing home (also what kind of timeline are we looking at?)?

Please help, I live three hours from where my mother is and thats the area where they would place her in a nursing home. I do not have the time to visit her as much as she needs.

Thanks

 

[lwpat]

You really don't need an attoreny to get her approved for Medicaid. However, what you probably need is a guardianship and for that you do need an attorney. She should have a caseworker that can assist you with these issues.