West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 64 - Health › Title 64 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES › Series 64-67 - Distribution Of State Funds To Local Boards Of Health › Section 64-67-3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. Base amount --
				The amount of floor funding provided to each county up to the amount required
				to pay the costs of four full time staff persons, including a nurse, a
				sanitarian, an administrator and a clerical worker using statewide average
				salaries for each position plus 30% for benefits and 20% for
				overhead.
3.2. Bureau -- The Bureau
				for Public Health in the Department of Health and Human Resources.
3.3. CBER Funding Study -- The Center for
				Business and Economic Research (CBER) at Marshall University. CBER performed an
				in depth study of the status of public health funding in West Virginia titled,
				People at Risk: The Financial Crisis in West Virginia Public Health, dated
				December 3, 2007. The study made recommendations for establishing a new funding
				formula to distribute state funds more fairly and equitably. The CBER study
				recommendations form the basis for the distribution formula adopted in this
				rule.
3.4. Commissioner -- The
				Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health or her or his designee.
3.5. Consolidation -- A formal combining of
				two or more local health departments and the combining of their boards of
				health.
3.6. Fiscal Year -- Twelve
				(12) month period beginning the first day of July and ending the thirtieth day
				of June.
3.7. Interventions -- The
				number of interventions per thousand population above the state average in the
				local health department service area, which may include, but shall not be
				limited to, total patient encounters, environmental inspections, permits issued
				and other appropriate quantifiable public health services performed by local
				health departments.
3.8. Local
				Board of Health -- A board of health created under the provisions of W. Va.
				Code §
									16-2-1, et
				seq.
3.9. Need factor -- The
				relative importance expressed as a mathematical value for each of five health
				measurement factors described in subsection 4.3. of this rule used to allocate
				state funds in a fair and equitable manner among local health departments.
3.10. Population -- The population
				of a county as determined by the Population Estimates Program of the United
				States Census Bureau data (
www.census.gov
).
3.11. Population density -- A calculation
				derived from the population data and the Land Area retrieved from the United
				States Census Bureau.
3.12. Poverty
				level -- The last full year of data per county as reported in the Small Area
				Income and Poverty Estimates for West Virginia counties.
3.13. State Funds for basic public health
				services -- All funds appropriated by the Legislature to support local boards
				of health.
3.14. Years of life lost
				-- The last full year of data as reported by the West Virginia Office of Vital
				Statistics by county for resident deaths and potential years of life lost
				before age 75.