Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 596 - ILLINOIS RURAL HEALTH CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 596.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Illinois Rural/Downstate Health Act.
"Administrative cost" means costs to control and direct an
				  organization but not directly identifiable with financing or operations. These
				  costs relate to the entire organization as opposed to specific departments or
				  units.
"Administrative law judge" shall have the meaning ascribed in
				  the Department's Practice and Procedure in Administrative Hearings.
"Applicant" means a person or entity that applies for grant
				  funds under this Part.
"Authorized representative" means a person who has authority
				  to act on behalf of the legal entity or person that is an applicant or grantee.
				  Authorized
representatives are: for a corporation, any of its officers
				  or members of its board of directors; for a limited liability company, any of
				  its managers or members; for a partnership, any of its general partners; and
				  for a sole proprietor, the individual who is the sole proprietor.
"Benefits" means compensation that is in addition to direct
				  wages or salary, including paid time off, pension, social security and
				  insurance.
"Business day" means Monday through Friday. It does not
				  include a federal or State government declared holiday, Saturday or
				  Sunday.
"Calendar day" means all days in a month or prescribed time
				  frame. It includes weekends and federal or State government declared
				  holidays.
"Center" means the Center for Rural Health of the Illinois
				  Department of Public Health, as established in Section 3 of the Act.
"Certified mail" means mail for which proof of delivery is
				  obtained.
"Commodity" means a consumable item that has a material
				  change or appreciable depreciation with first usage, and equipment having a
				  value not exceeding $100.
"Community" means one or more incorporated or unincorporated
				  villages or towns.
"Community-Based Primary Care Center" means a locally
				  organized and recognized group of individuals whose goals include efforts to
				  maintain or increase the availability or accessibility of necessary health care
				  for the citizens of their community.
"Community Health Center" means migrant health centers or
				  community health centers or health care for the homeless programs supported
				  under sections 329, 330, or 340 of the Federal Public Health Service Act,
				  respectively; and Federally Qualified Health Centers, including FQHC
				  Look-Alikes, as designated by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
				  Services or Illinois Department of Public Health, or the Public Health Service
				  of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Section
				  4.1 of the Act)
"Construction cost" or "modernization cost" means expenses
				  from a construction contract.
"Data Universal Numbering System" or "DUNS" is a system that
				  assigns a unique numeric identifier, referred to as a DUNS number, to a single
				  business entity.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
				  Health.
"Designated shortage area" means a medically underserved area
				  or health manpower shortage area as defined by the United States Department of
				  Health and Human Services or as otherwise designated by the Illinois Department
				  of Public Health. (Section 2 of the Act)
"Direct cost" means costs that the grantee incurs that can be
				  traced directly to, or identified with, a specific process or product.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
				  Public Health.
"Downstate urban" means the Illinois counties of Winnebago,
				  DeKalb, Kankakee, Rock Island, Peoria, Tazewell, McLean, Champaign, Vermilion,
				  Sangamon, Macon, Madison and St. Clair.
"Due diligence" means action taken toward the completion of a
				  project with the diligence and foresight that persons of ordinary prudence and
				  care would exercise under similar circumstances.
"Federal Employer Identification Number" or "FEIN" means a
				  unique nine-digit number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service to business
				  entities operating in the United States.
"Federally Qualified Health Center" or "FQHC" means a health
				  center funded under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act (
				  42 USC 254
				  b ).
"Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike" or "FQHC
				  Look-Alike" means an organization that meets the requirements for receiving a
				  grant under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act but does not receive
				  federal grants under that authority.
"Fiscal year" means the financial operating year of Illinois
				  State government. It begins on July 1 and ends on June 30 of the next calendar
				  year.
"Funding period" means the time frame during which grant
				  funds are to be expended by a grantee (usually corresponding with the
				  Department's fiscal year).
"Grant" means funds awarded under the Act.
"Grantor agency" means any agency of State government which
				  dispenses grant funds. (Section 2(a) of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery
				  Act)
"Grant agreement" means the agreement entered into between
				  the Department and any person or entity for obligation, capital expenditure, or
				  use for a specific purpose.
"Grantee" means a person or entity which may use grant funds.
				  (Section 2(c) of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act)
"Grant funds" means public funds dispensed by the Department
				  to any person or entity for obligation, expenditure or use for a specific
				  purpose. (Section 2(b) of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act)
"Health Professional Shortage Area" or "HPSA" means a
				  designation provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
				  Health Resources and Services Administration. The HPSA designation indicates
				  the shortage of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers. The
				  designation may be geographic (a county or service area), demographic (low
				  income population) or institutional (comprehensive FQHC or other public
				  facility). All FQHCs and Rural Health Clinics that provide access to care
				  regardless of an individual's ability to pay receive HPSA designations. (For a
				  map of HPSAs, see http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/hpsacrit.htm. [File Link Not
				  Available])
"Health Professional Shortage Area Score" or "HPSA score"
				  means a score calculated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
				  that is assigned to areas or facilities having a health professional shortage
				  designation to determine priorities for assignment of clinicians.
"Historic resource" shall have the meaning ascribed in
				  Section 3(c) of the Illinois State Agency Historic Resources Preservation
				  Act.
"Hospital" means any institution, place, building or agency,
				  public or private, whether organized for profit or not, devoted primarily to
				  the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis and treatment or
				  care of 2 or more unrelated persons admitted for overnight stay or longer in
				  order to obtain medical, including obstetric, psychiatric and nursing, care of
				  illness, disease, injury, infirmity or deformity. (Section 3 of the Hospital
				  Licensing Act)
"Legal holiday" means a holiday set by statute, during which
				  government and business working hours are suspended.
"Local health department" means a county, multi-county,
				  municipal or district public health agency certified by the Department.
"Metropolitan Chicago" means the Illinois counties of Cook,
				  Kane, Lake, McHenry, DuPage and Will.
"Metropolitan Statistical Area" means one or more adjacent
				  counties that have at least one urban core area of at least 50,000 in
				  population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and
				  economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.
"Medically underserved population" means individuals who
				  reside in a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services health professional
				  shortage area or medically underserved area; or who are designated a medically
				  underserved population by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; or
				  who reside in an area designated by the Department as underserved.
"Mid-level providers" include health professionals who have
				  completed specialized training and who meet the requirements of nationally
				  recognized health professional organizations granting certification to nurse
				  practitioners, certified nurse midwives, certified registered nurse
				  anesthetists, and physicians' assistants.
"Not-for-Profit" shall have the meaning ascribed in Section
				  101.80(a)
				  of the General Not-for-Profit Corporation Act of 1986.
"Obligation" or "obligated" means a requirement for a grantee
				  to make future payments from grant funds that result from financial
				  transactions that have occurred.
"Official State newspaper" means the newspaper identified by
				  the Illinois Office of Communication and Information to publish legal notices
				  and other publications for all State agencies, elected officials, and Boards
				  and Commissions. Information on the official State newspaper can be obtained
				  from the following Internet site:
www.illinois.gov/ioci/statenewspaper.cfm
.
"Personal services" means costs associated with wages and
				  salaries for individuals employed by the grantee.
"Primary care" means health care that encompasses prevention
				  services, basic diagnostic and treatment services, and support services
				  including laboratory, radiology, transportation, and pharmacy. Primary care
				  shall be comprehensive in nature and not organ or problem specific, shall be
				  oriented toward the longitudinal care of the patient, and shall be responsible
				  for coordination of other health and social services as they relate to the
				  patients' needs.
"Primary care physician" means a person licensed to practice
				  medicine in all of its branches under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 with a
				  specialty in family practice, general internal medicine, obstetrics and
				  gynecology, pediatrics, or combined internal medicine/pediatrics as defined by
				  recognized standards for professional medical practices.
"Project completion" means that the project has been brought
				  to a conclusion based on the objectives in the grant agreement.
"Rural" means any Illinois county that is not included in
				  either the Metropolitan Chicago or Downstate Urban definitions.
"Service area" means the geographic area surrounding a
				  physician's office, a hospital or a clinic, and from which the residents may be
				  reasonably expected to seek health care from the physician, hospital or clinic
				  located within the area.
"Supplies" means the costs incurred for general purpose
				  consumable items that have a shorter life span than equipment and that are
				  stocked for recurring use.
"Travel" means the costs incurred by a grantee's employees to
				  travel to fulfill specific job requirements. These costs could include but are
				  not limited to air travel, local transportation, per diem, mileage allowance
				  and lodging.