For professionals

Refer a patient or client for the Assisted Living Waiver

Start with your own details. We confirm it is you by text code or email link, then you fill in the referral. No patient information on an open form.

Refer a patient or client

Read the referral checklist

How the referral works

1
Confirm who you are
Name, organization, role and work email. A one-time code to that email confirms it is you.
2
Fill in the referral
Patient details come only after we confirm it is you, never on an open form. It saves as you go.
3
Check and send
Every answer on one page, then three statements and your typed name. You get a receipt with a reference number.
4
Beta contacts the person
A coordinator calls you within 24 hours, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.. They then reach the person or their representative and explain the waiver. If the person chooses Beta, the coordinator prepares the waitlist request with them and sends it to DHCS after review.

ALW cannot meet a discharge date. DHCS holds the waitlist and releases openings in priority order as capacity allows. DHCS reports an average of 11 to 12 months from waitlist to enrollment for people leaving an institution, and no agency can move someone up. Keep a second discharge plan running. Hospital and SNF referrals: what to expect