Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES › Chapter 388-829C - Companion homes › DEFINITIONS › Section 388-829C-010 - What definitions apply to this chapter?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply to this chapter:
"Case manager" means the DDA case manager or DDA social
					 worker assigned to a client.
"Certification" means a process used by DDA to determine if
					 an applicant or service provider complies with the requirements of this chapter
					 and the companion home contract.
"Client" means a person who has a developmental disability
					 as defined in
					 RCW
					 71A.10.020(5) and who has
					 been determined eligible to receive services by DDA under chapter 388-823
					 WAC.
"Companion home provider" means a provider of certified
					 community residential support services under
					 RCW
					 71A.10.020(2) who is
					 contracted with DDA to deliver residential habilitation services. A companion
					 home provider does not have an individual provider contract.
"Consent" means express written consent granted by the
					 client, or the client's legal representative if the client has one, after the
					 client or the client's legal representative has been informed of the nature of
					 a service being offered.
"DDA" means the developmental disabilities
					 administration.
"DSHS" or "the department" means the state of Washington
					 department of social and health services and its employees and authorized
					 agents.
"Instruction" means goal-oriented teaching that is designed
					 for acquiring and enhancing skills.
"Instruction techniques" means step-by-step instruction,
					 mentoring, role modeling, and developing visual cues.
"Integrated setting" means typical community settings not
					 designed specifically for people with disabilities in which the majority of
					 people employed and participating are people without disabilities.
"Legal representative" means a parent of a client if the
					 client is under age eighteen, a court-appointed guardian if a decision is
					 within the scope of the guardianship order, or any other person authorized by
					 law to act for the client.
"Medication administration" means the direct application of
					 a prescribed medication whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion,
					 application, or other means, to a client by a person legally authorized to do
					 so under chapter 246-840 WAC.
"Medication assistance" means assistance with
					 self-administration of medication under chapter 69.41 RCW and chapter 246-888
					 WAC, rendered by a non-practitioner to a person receiving certified community
					 residential support services.
"Nurse delegation" means the process by which a registered
					 nurse transfers the performance of select nursing tasks to a registered or
					 certified nursing assistant under chapter 18.79 RCW and WACs 246-840-910
					 through 246-840-970.
"Person-centered service plan" means a document that
					 identifies a client's goals and assessed health and welfare needs. The
					 person-centered service plan also indicates the paid services and natural
					 supports that will assist the client to achieve their goals and address their
					 assessed needs.
"Plan of correction" means a signed plan developed by the
					 companion home provider and DDA resource manager.
"Representative payee" means a person or an organization
					 appointed by the Social Security Administration to receive Social Security or
					 SSI benefits for anyone who cannot manage or direct the management of their
					 benefits.
"Residential habilitation services" has the same meaning as
					 is under WAC
					 388-845-1500.
"Resource manager" means the DDA employee who establishes
					 rates, monitors contract compliance, and acts as DDA's liaison with the service
					 provider.
"Service provider" means a person or entity contracted by
					 DSHS and authorized to deliver services and supports to meet a client's
					 assessed needs.
"Support" means assistance a service provider gives a
					 client based on needs identified in the client's person-centered service
					 plan.
Statutory Authority: RCW 71A.12.30 [71A.12.030] and Title
						71A RCW. 07-16-102, § 388-829C-010, filed 7/31/07, effective
						9/1/07.