Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 17 - Public Assistance and Welfare Services › 313b - Establishment of Rates for Community Living Arrangements Licensed by the Department of Mental Retardation › Section 17-313b-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in Sections 17-313b-1 to
				17-313b-17,
				inclusive:
(1) "Commissioner" means
			 the Commissioner of Income Maintenance or his designated
			 representative.
(2) "Commissioner
			 of Mental Retardation" means said commissioner or his designated
			 representative.
(3) "Audited
			 consolidated operational report" means the annual cost and performance
			 reporting document, which consists of forms provided by the Department of
			 Mental Retardation, and submitted by all organizations operating community
			 living arrangements or community living arrangements and day
			 services.
(4) "Operational plan"
			 means the document, which consists of forms provided by the Department of
			 Mental Retardation, and submitted by all organizations operating community
			 living arrangements for use in establishing rates for the following contract
			 year.
(5) "Community living
			 arrangement" means any residence operated by an organization for mentally
			 retarded persons and licensed pursuant to Section 19a-467 G.S. other than a
			 community training home, group residence, habilitative nursing facility, or
			 residential school. A facility certified to participate in the Medicaid program
			 as an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded shall not be
			 considered a community living arrangement for purposes of establishing rates
			 pursuant to these regulations.
(6)
			 "Community Training Home" means a residence licensed as such by the Department
			 of Mental Retardation pursuant to Section 19a-467 G.S.
(7) "Region" means Department of Mental
			 Retardation region of the state.
(8) "Primary Region" means that Department of
			 Mental Retardation Region in which an organization has its highest number of
			 community living arrangement placements.
(9) "Day Services" means the range of
			 non-residential services provided to persons by organizations which receive
			 funding from the state including, but not limited to, community work services,
			 adult day treatment, supported employment and elderly enrichment.
(10) "Organization" means any business entity
			 which operates community living arrangements and/or day services for mentally
			 retarded persons.
(11) "Client"
			 means a mentally retarded person who receives services funded, or partially
			 funded by the Department of Mental Retardation.
(12) "Contract Year" means the period of July
			 1 through June 30.
(13) "Contract"
			 means the written agreement between the Department of Mental Retardation and an
			 organization to provide services during the contract year.
(14) "Residential Client Needs Assessment"
			 means documents which present a composite assessment of individual client needs
			 for each community living arrangement to assist in establishing the basic
			 staffing pattern required in the residence. The forms and assessment are
			 provided by the Department of Mental Retardation.
(15) "Newly Licensed Community Living
			 Arrangement" means any community living arrangement operated by an organization
			 that has been licensed for less than twelve (12) months and which has not had a
			 rate established pursuant to Sec.
			 17-313b-8.
(16) "Line Item" means the categories of
			 expenditures, administrative and general, direct service staff compensation,
			 direct service costs other than direct service staff compensation, and room and
			 board costs, used in the rate setting process established by these
			 regulations.
(17) "Line Item Cost
			 Settlement" means the cost settlement process for the expenditure categories
			 recognized in these regulations.
(18) "Multi-Unit Structure" means any
			 residential building in which more than one unit is leased or offered for
			 lease.
(19) "Related Parties" means
			 persons or organizations related through marriage, ability to control,
			 ownership, family or business association. Past exercise or influence or
			 control need not be shown, only the potential or ability to directly or
			 indirectly exercise influence or control.