Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 30-100 - Community Services › Chapter DHS 63 - Community Support Programs For Chronically Mentally Ill Persons › Section DHS 63.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
				"Alcoholic" has the meaning prescribed in s.
				51.01 (1),
				Stats., namely, a person who is suffering from alcoholism.
(2) "Alcoholism" has the meaning prescribed
				in s. 51.01 (1m),
				Stats., namely, a disease which is characterized by the dependency of a person
				on the drug alcohol, to the extent that the person's health is substantially
				impaired or endangered or his or her social or economic functioning is
				substantially disrupted.
(3)
				"Applicant" means a person who has begun, but not completed, the admissions
				process under s.
				DHS
				63.09.
(4)
				"Assessment" means the process used to evaluate a client's presenting problems
				with an accompanying description of the reported or observed conditions which
				led to the classification or diagnosis of the client's chronic mental
				illness.
(5) "Case management"
				means an organized process for providing a full range of appropriate treatment,
				rehabilitation and support services to a client in a planned, coordinated,
				efficient and effective manner.
(6)
				"Certification" means the approval of a community support program by the
				department.
(7) "Chronic mental
				illness" means a mental illness which is severe in degree and persistent in
				duration, which causes a substantially diminished level of functioning in the
				primary aspects of daily living and an inability to cope with the ordinary
				demands of life, which may lead to an inability to maintain stable adjustment
				and independent functioning without long-term treatment and support and which
				may be of lifelong duration. "Chronic mental illness" includes schizophrenia as
				well as a wide spectrum of psychotic and other severely disabling psychiatric
				diagnostic categories, but does not include organic mental disorders or a
				primary diagnosis of intellectual disability or of alcohol or drug
				dependence.
(8) "Client" means an
				individual who has completed the admissions process under s.
				DHS
				63.09 and is receiving treatment or services for
				mental illness.
(9) "Community
				support program" or "CSP" means a coordinated care and treatment program which
				provides a range of treatment, rehabilitation and support services through an
				identified treatment program and staff to ensure ongoing therapeutic
				involvement, individualized treatment, rehabilitation and support services in
				the community for persons with chronic mental illness.
(10) "County department" means a county
				department of community programs established under s.
				51.42, Stats.
(11) "Department" means the Wisconsin
				department of health services.
(12)
				"Developmental disability" has the meaning given in s.
				51.01 (5) (a),
				Stats.
(13) "Drug dependence" has
				the meaning prescribed in s.
				46.973 (1) (c),
				Stats., namely, a condition arising from the periodic or continuous use of a
				drug which may result in psychic or physical dependence which would affect or
				potentially affect the public health, safety or welfare.
(13m) "Functionally equivalent" means a
				service provided via telehealth where the transmission of information is of
				sufficient quality as to be the same level of service as an in-person visit.
				Transmission of voices, images, data, or video must be clear and
				understandable.
(14) "Mental
				illness" means mental disorder to such an extent that an afflicted person
				requires care and treatment for his or her own welfare or the welfare of others
				or of the community. For purposes of involuntary commitment, "mental illness"
				means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation or
				memory which grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality
				or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, but does not include organic
				mental disorder or a primary diagnosis of intellectual disability, or of
				alcohol or drug dependence.
(15)
				"Organic mental disorder" means a disorder which has as its essential feature
				psychological or behavioral abnormalities, or both, associated with transient
				or permanent dysfunction of the brain that prevents a person from adequately
				providing for his or her own care.
(16) "Outreach" means procedures for
				identifying and contacting chronically mentally ill persons who are in need of
				CSP treatment and services, including referral agreements with psychiatric
				inpatient units, outpatient treatment clinics, and other community treatment
				and service providers.
(17)
				"Practitioner" means any of the CSP staff members specified under s.
				DHS 63.06(2) and (4)
				(a).
(18) "Service provider" means a county
				department or a private agency that provides one or more services under this
				chapter.
(18m) "Signature" or
				"signed" means a signature that meets the requirements in s.
				990.01 (38),
				Stats.
(19) "Supervision" means
				intermittent contact between a supervisor and a staff member to review the work
				of the staff member.
(20)
(a) "Telehealth" means the use of
				telecommunications technology by a certified provider to deliver services
				allowable under this chapter, s.
				DHS 107.02
				(5), and ss.
				49.45 (61) and
				49.46 (2) (b)
				21. to 23., Stats., including assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment,
				or transfer of medically relevant data in a functionally equivalent manner of
				that of an in-person contact.
(b)
				"Telehealth" may include real-time interactive audio-only
				communication.
(c) "Telehealth"
				does not include communication between a certified provider and a recipient
				that consists solely of an electronic mail, text, or facsimile
				transmission.