Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 974 - QUALITY OF LIFE CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 974.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Illinois Lottery Law.
"AIDS" means acquired immunodeficiency
				  syndrome
(Section 3(b) of the AIDS Confidentiality Act).
"Applicant" means an entity that submits an application for
				  grant funding. An applicant can be a nonprofit entity, educational institution,
				  or governmental entity, including, but not limited to, a local health
				  department, community-based organization, or health care facility.
"At-risk populations or categories" means those populations
				  with the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS reported by the Illinois Department of
				  Public Health within the last three years, including, but not limited to, men
				  who have sex with men (MSM), high risk heterosexuals (HRH), injection drug
				  users (IDU), MSM/IDU or other populations determined, based on epidemiological
				  data, to be at risk for contracting HIV.
"Award letter" means the letter to the applicant that states
				  that the applicant is being awarded funding.
"Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 waiver"
				  or "CLIA waiver" means the certificate for test systems cleared by the Food and
				  Drug Administration for home use and those tests approved for waiver under the
				  CLIA criteria.
"Community based organization" or "CBO" means a public or
				  private nonprofit business entity that is granted tax-exempt status by the
				  Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and that is representative of a community or a
				  significant segment of a community and is engaged in meeting human,
				  educational, environmental, and public health needs.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
				  Health.
"Direct costs" means costs that can be traced directly to, or
				  identified with, the implementation of a specific program or project.
"Fund" means the Quality of Life Endowment Fund created in
				  the Act.
"Grant" means an award by the Department of assistance,
				  whether financial or otherwise, to any eligible person or entity to support a
				  program authorized by law. The term does not include an award the primary
				  purpose of which is to procure an end product for the direct benefit or use of
				  the Department, whether in the form of goods or services.
"Grant agreement" means a legally binding written
				  understanding between the Department and a grantee specifying terms for a
				  grant's expenditure and reporting.
"Grantee" means the person or entity
that
may use grant funds
in accordance with a grant agreement with
				  the Department (Section 2 of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act).
"Grant funds" means
any public funds dispensed
				  by
the Department
to any person or entity for obligation,
				  expenditure, or use by that person or entity for a specific purpose or
				  purposes
(Section 2(b) of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery
				  Act).
"Grant period" means the time during which money is to be
				  spent by grantees.
"Grant project manager" means the person in the Department
				  program who coordinates the grant process at the program level.
"Health care facility" or "facility" means any institution,
				  building or agency, or portion of any institution, building or agency, whether
				  public or private (for-profit or nonprofit) that is used, operated or designed
				  to provide health services, medical treatment or nursing, rehabilitative or
				  preventive care to any person or persons.
"HIV" means the human immunodeficiency virus or any
				  other identified causative agent of AIDS
(Section 3(c) of the AIDS
				  Confidentiality Act).
"HIV infection" means infected with HIV as evidenced by a
				  positive or reactive supplemental laboratory test result.
"Indirect costs" means the expenses of doing business that
				  are not readily identified with a particular grant, contract, project function
				  or activity, but are necessary for the general operation of the organization
				  and the activities it performs. Indirect costs include the costs of operating
				  and maintaining facilities, equipment and grounds; depreciation or use
				  allowances; and administrative salaries and supplies.
"Intervention" means a specific activity or set of related
				  activities intended to change the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors or
				  practices of individuals and populations to reduce their health risk,
				  including, but not limited to, health education and risk reduction (HERR) and
				  counseling, testing and referral (CTR). An intervention has distinct process
				  and outcome objectives and a protocol outlining the steps for implementation.
				  The following are types of HIV prevention interventions:
"Behavioral interventions" means individual, group, couple
				  and community-level interventions that modify behaviors that facilitate the
				  acquisition or transmission of HIV.
"Biomedical interventions" means the use of medical, clinical
				  and public health approaches designed to moderate biological and physiological
				  factors to prevent HIV infection, reduce susceptibility to HIV and decrease HIV
				  infectiousness.
"Evidence-based interventions" means a prevention service
				  that has been proven to positively affect the targeted outcome based on some
				  form of evaluation.
"Public health strategies" means interventions that are
				  time-tested procedures used by public health practitioners in the prevention,
				  screening, diagnostic or treatment processes. They are based on established
				  principles of public health, including primary, secondary and tertiary
				  prevention, and may include a range of activities.
"Local health department" means the official health
				  department or board of health having jurisdiction over a particular
				  area.
"Nonprofit" means a corporation described in the General
				  Not-for-Profit Corporation Act of 1986.
"Prevention education" means the practice of providing
				  instruction on methods or activities that seek to reduce or deter specific or
				  predictable problems, protect the current state of well-being, encourage
				  individuals to protect their own health and the health of those in their
				  community, and promote desired outcomes or behaviors.
"Project" or "service" means a sequence of tasks with defined
				  outcomes and deliverables that are funded by the Department to address a public
				  health need, goal or objective.
"Request for application" or "RFA" means a document that the
				  Department posts to invite grant applications from potential applicants to
				  accomplish the tasks and goals of a specific grant program.
"Subgrantee" means a recipient of an award of financial
				  assistance in the form of money or property by a grantee or by a subgrantee to
				  a lower tier subgrantee. A subgrant includes financial assistance when provided
				  by contractual legal agreement, even if the agreement is called a contract, but
				  does not include the procurement of goods and services by the
				  grantee.