Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 975 - COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER EXPANSION › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 975.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Community Health Center Expansion Act [410
				  ILCS 66 ].
"Acquire a new physical location" means acquisition through
				  leasing arrangements or construction of existing or new space for the purpose
				  of delivering primary health care services. The purchase of land is excluded.
				  (Section 20(2) of the 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.
"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.
"Certified mail" means mail for which proof of delivery is
				  obtained.
"Community health center" or "CHC" means a migrant health
				  center or community health center or health care program for the homeless or
				  for residents of public housing supported under section 330 of the federal
				  Public Health Service Act, and Federally Qualified Health Centers, including
				  FQHC Look-Alikes, as designated by the Secretary of the United States
				  Department of Health and Human Services, that operate at least one federally
				  designated primary health care delivery site in the State of Illinois.
"Community health center site" means a new physical site
				  where a community health center will provide primary health care services
				  either to a medically underserved population or area or to the uninsured
				  population of this State. (Section 5 of the Act)
"Community provider" means a Federally Qualified Health
				  Center or FQHC Look-Alike (community health center or health center),
				  designated as such by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health
				  and Human Services, that operates at least one federally designated primary
				  health care delivery site in the State of Illinois. (Section 5 of the
				  Act)
"Construction costs" or "modernization costs" 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.
				  (Section 5 of the Act)
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
				  Public Health.
"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.
"Eligible applicant" means a Federally Qualified Health
				  Center or an FQHC Look-Alike.
"Equipment cost" means the cost of movable equipment,
				  including movable medical equipment, and the cost of making this equipment
				  operational (e.g., installation costs).
"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 ).
"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.
"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.
"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" refers to funds awarded to a Community Health Center
				  under the Act for the purpose of establishing new community health center sites
				  to provide primary health care servicesto medically underserved populations or
				  areas or provide primary health care services to the uninsured (Section 10(a)
				  of the Act) or to provide sustaining funds to grantees that have met the
				  initial proposed project objectives and can demonstrate continued financial
				  need. (Section 10.5 of 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)
"Historic resource" shall have the meaning ascribed in
				  Section 3(c) of the Illinois State Agency Historic Resources Preservation Act
				  [20 ILCS 3420 ].
"Initial proposed project objectives" refers to objectives
				  included in the application that was approved and funded under a Community
				  Health Center Expansion Act grant.
"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.
"Medically underserved area" or "MUA" means an urban or rural
				  area designated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and
				  Human Services as an area with a shortage of personal health services. (Section
				  5 of the Act)
"Medically underserved population" or "MUP" means the
				  population of an urban or rural area designated by the Secretary of the United
				  States Department of Health and Human Services as an area with a shortage of
				  personal health services or a population group designated by the Secretary as
				  having a shortage of those services. (Section 5 of the Act)
"Metropolitan statistical area" or "MSA" 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.
"Newspaper of general circulation" means newspapers other
				  than those intended to serve a particular defined population, including the
				  publications of professional and trade associations (see Section 30(b) of the
				  Act).
"Not-for-profit" means a corporation or entity described in
				  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.
"Personal services" means costs associated with wages and
				  salaries for individuals employed by the grantee.
"Primary health care services" means the following:
Basic health services consisting of the following:
Health services related to family medicine, internal
				  medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, or gynecology that are furnished by
				  physicians and, if appropriate, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and
				  nurse midwives.
Diagnostic laboratory and radiologic services.
Preventive health services, including the following:
Prenatal and perinatal services.
Screenings for breast, ovarian, and cervical cancer.
Well-child services.
Immunizations against vaccine-preventable diseases.
Screenings for elevated blood lead levels, communicable
				  diseases, and cholesterol.
Pediatric eye, ear, and dental screenings to determine the
				  need for vision and hearing correction and dental care.
Voluntary family planning services.
Preventive dental services.
Emergency medical services.
Pharmaceutical services as appropriate for particular health
				  centers.
Referrals to providers of medical services and other health
				  related services (including substance abuse and mental health services).
Patient case management services (including counseling,
				  referral, and follow-up services) and other services designed to assist health
				  center patients in establishing eligibility for and gaining access to federal,
				  State, and local programs that provide or financially support the provision of
				  medical, social, educational, or other related services.
Services that enable individuals to use the services of the
				  health center (including outreach and transportation services and, if a
				  substantial number of the individuals in the population are of limited
				  English-speaking ability, the services of appropriate personnel fluent in the
				  language spoken by a predominant number of those individuals).
Education of patients and the general population served by
				  the health center regarding the availability and proper use of health
				  services.
Additional health services consisting of services that are
				  appropriate to meet the health needs of the population served by the health
				  center involved and that may include the following:
Environmental health services, including the
				  following:
Detection and alleviation of unhealthful conditions
				  associated with water supply.
Sewage treatment.
Solid waste disposal.
Detection and alleviation of rodent and parasite
				  infestation.
Field sanitation.
Housing.
Other environmental factors related to health.
Special occupation-related health services for migratory and
				  seasonal agricultural workers, including the following:
Screening for and control of infectious diseases, including
				  parasitic diseases.
Injury prevention programs, which may include prevention of
				  exposure to unsafe levels of agricultural chemicals, including pesticides.
				  (Section 5 of the Act)
"Project completion" means that the project has been brought
				  to a conclusion based on the objectives in the grant agreement.
"Project service area" means the geographic area to be served
				  by the grantee.
"Proof of publication" means documentation provided by a
				  newspaper verifying that a legal notice was published.
"Recipient" refers to a community provider that is or will
				  become a community health center and meets the application requirements
				  outlined in Section
				  975.220.
"Rural" means any geographic area not located in a U.S.
				  Bureau of the Census Metropolitan Statistical Area; or a county located within
				  a Metropolitan Statistical Area but having a population of 60,000 or less; or a
				  community located within a Metropolitan Statistical Area but having a
				  population of 2,500 or less.
"Service area" is the geographic area composed of the
				  Medically Underserved Area or Medically Underserved Population.
"Supplies" means general purpose consumable items that have a
				  shorter life span than equipment and that are stocked for recurring use.
"Sustainability funding" means an additional three years of
				  funding by the Department after the initial three-year expansion grant period.
				  These funds shall be in an amount up to 50% of a grantee's third-year grant
				  funding for each of three additional years. (Section 10.5 of the Act)
"Travel" means the cost 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.
"Uninsured population" means persons who do not own private
				  health care insurance, are not part of a group insurance plan, and are not
				  eligible for any State or federal government-sponsored health care program.
				  (Section 5 of the Act)
"Urban" means any geographic area that does not meet the
				  definition of "rural" in this Section.