INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED
An ICF/MR facility provides 24 hour supervison with the purpose of providing a safe, normalizing and healthy environment in which persons with mental retardation may receive those medical and/or habilitative services which will, overtime, result in greater independence, dignity and productivity, hopefully, in ever more independent environments.
Placement in an ICF/MR is usually the first phase of transition from the institution to community living. The small facility provides an open, community interactive environment which serves as a less restrictive* setting than the institution.
Individuals who live in an ICF/MR facility require more programming than is provided in a six-hour workshop or any other comparable program. They take part daily in a program of therapies and other activities developed to meet their individual needs.
Each facility is staffed with a Qualified Mental Retardation Professional (QMRP) who along with other professionals and para-professionals provide the needed interventions and supports to enhance the social, recreational, behavioral, self-help and activity of daily living skills of each individual.
Our agency serves 26 people who reside in one of three ICF/MR facilities located in Sumter.
* The ICF/MR is viewed as a transition, leading toward ever less restrictive settings whenever possible and appropriate.