Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES › Chapter 388-828 - The division of developmental disabilities (DDD) assessment › DEFINITIONS › Section 388-828-1020 - What definitions apply to this chapter?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply to this chapter:
"AAIDD" means the American Association on Intellectual and
					 Developmental Disabilities.
"Acuity Scale" refers to an assessment tool that is
					 intended to provide a framework for documenting important assessment elements
					 and for standardizing the key questions that should be asked as part of a
					 professional assessment. The design helps provide consistency from client to
					 client by minimizing subjective bias and assists in promoting objective
					 assessment of a person's support needs.
"Administration" means the developmental disabilities
					 administration of the department of social and health services.
"Adult family home" or "AFH" means a residential home in
					 which a person or entity is licensed to provide personal care, special care,
					 room, and board to more than one but not more than six adults who are not
					 related by blood, adoption, or marriage to a provider, entity representative,
					 resident manager, or caregiver who resides in the home. An adult family home
					 may be licensed to provide care to up to eight adults if the home receives
					 approval under chapter 388-76 WAC.
"Agency provider" means a business that is licensed,
					 certified, or both, and that is contracted with the department or a county to
					 provide DDA services.
"Algorithm" means a numerical formula used by the DDA
					 assessment for one or more of the following:
(1) Calculation of assessed information to
				  identify a client's relative level of need; and
(2) Assignment of a service level to support
				  a client's assessed need.
"Authorization" means DDA approval of funding for a service
					 as identified in the person-centered service plan or evidence of payment for a
					 service.
"CARE" refers to the comprehensive assessment reporting
					 evaluation assessment per chapter 388-106 WAC.
"Client" means a person who has a developmental disability
					 as defined in
					 RCW
					 71A.10.020 who also has been determined
					 eligible to receive services by the administration under chapter 71A.16
					 RCW.
"Collateral contact" means a person or agency that is
					 involved in the client's life such as legal guardian, family member, care
					 provider, or friend.
"Companion home" is a DDA contracted residential service
					 that provides 24 hour training, support, and supervision, to one adult living
					 with a paid provider.
"Contracted provider" means an individual provider
					 contracted with the department, individual provider employed by the consumer
					 directed employer, or an individual or agency who is one or more of the
					 following: Licensed, certified, or contracted by the department to provide
					 services to DDA clients.
"DDA" means the developmental disabilities administration
					 of the department of social and health services.
"Department" means the department of social and health
					 services (DSHS).
"Group home" or "GH" means a licensed adult family home or
					 assisted living facility contracted and certified to provide residential
					 services and support to adults with developmental disabilities.
"Home visit" means viewing a client's living quarters with
					 the client present.
"ICF/IID" means a medicaid-certified facility operating
					 under Title XIX of the Social Security Act in 42
C.F.R. 440-150 to furnish health or rehabilitation
					 services.
"ICF/IID level of care" is a standardized assessment of a
					 client's need for ICF/IID level of care per
					 42 C.F.R. Sec.
					 440 and
					 42 C.F.R. Sec.
					 483. In addition, ICF/IID level of care
					 refers to one of the standards used by DDA to determine whether a client meets
					 minimum eligibility criteria for one of the DDA HCBS waivers or the community
					 first choice program.
"Legal guardian" means a person/agency, appointed by a
					 court, who is authorized to make some or all decisions for a person determined
					 by the court to be incapacitated. In the absence of court intervention, parents
					 remain the legal guardians for their child until the child reaches the age of
					 18.
"Living quarters" means the client's bedroom and main
					 living area(s).
"LOC score" means a level of care score for answers to
					 questions in the support needs assessment for children that are used in
					 determining if a client meets eligibility requirements for ICF/IID level of
					 care.
"Panel" refers to the visual user-interface in the DDA
					 assessment computer application where assessment questions are typically
					 organized by topic and you and your respondents' answers are recorded.
"Person-centered service plan (PCSP)" is a document that
					 identifies your goals and assessed health and welfare needs. Your
					 person-centered service plan also indicates the paid services and natural
					 supports that will assist you to achieve your goals and address your assessed
					 needs.
"Raw score" means the numerical value when adding a
					 person's "frequency of support," "daily support time," and "type of support"
					 scores for each activity in the support needs and supplemental protection and
					 advocacy scales of the supports intensity scale (SIS) assessment.
"Residential habilitation center" or "RHC" is a
					 state-operated facility under
					 RCW
					 71A.20.020.
"Respondent" means the adult client or another person
					 familiar with the client who participates in the client's DDA assessment by
					 answering questions and providing information. Respondents may include DDA
					 contracted providers.
"Service provider" refers to a department contracted agency
					 or person who provides services to DDA clients. Also refers to state operated
					 living alternative programs (SOLA).
"Significant change assessment" means a DDA assessment
					 completed any time a change is reported in a client's support needs, such as an
					 increased need for medical or behavioral supports.
"SIS" means the supports intensity scale developed by the
					 American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
					 (AAIDD).
"SOLA" means a state operated living alternative program
					 for adults that is operated by DDA.
"State supplementary payment" or "SSP" is the state paid
					 cash assistance program for certain DDA eligible Social Security income clients
					 per chapter 388-827 WAC.
"Supported living" or "SL" refers to residential services
					 provided by DDA certified residential agencies to clients living in homes that
					 are owned, rented, or leased by the clients or their legal
					 representatives.
"Waiver respite care" means short-term intermittent relief
					 for persons normally providing care to individuals who are authorized to
					 receive services available in the individual and family services (IFS),
					 children's intensive in-home behavioral support (CIIBS), basic plus, and core
					 waivers per chapter 388-845 WAC.
"You" and "your" means the client.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						71A.12.030 and Title 71A RCW. 07-10-029,
						§ 388-828-1020, filed 4/23/07, effective
						6/1/07.