Glossary of Terms, Acronyms & Abbreviations: A - F
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Definition |
| AA/CRC
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Affirmative Action/Civil Rights Compliance - Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Management and Technology, Bureau of Personnel and Employment Relations.
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| AAA
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Area Agency on Aging; substate planning and coordinating agency authorized by federal Older Americans Act; 6 in Wisconsin.
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| AAIS
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Affirmative Action Information System.
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| ADA
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Americans with Disabilities Act; PL 101- 336, as amended; 42 USC 12101 - 12213.
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| ADAMBG
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Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Block Grant.
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| ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVES
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Formal DHFS directives that establish basic Department policy and procedure for general operations, that apply only to Department staff and that are issued by the Secretary's Office from time to time in a standard written format following a determination that the particular policy and procedure should be disseminated throughout the Department. Included in the Department's Operations Directives Manual.
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| ADP
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Average daily population.
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| ADULT FAMILY HOME (a)
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A home certified by a county social services or human services department, in which 1 or 2 adults unrelated to the operator reside and which provides a structured living arrangement for residents.
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| ADULT FAMILY HOME (b)
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A home for 3 to 4 developmentally disabled adults who receive care and maintenance above the level of board and room, but not nursing care, from the person whose home it is, and who for the most part lived in the home when they were younger and it was regulated as a foster home for children. Certified under ch. HSS 82 rules.
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| ADULT FAMILY HOME (c)
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A home for 3 or 4 adults who receive care, treatment and services above the level of board and room, but not nursing care. Licensed under ch. HSS 88 rules.
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| AFDC
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children; former income maintenance program providing payments to low - income households with children. Replaced by W-2.
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| AFH
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Adult Family Home
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| AGE DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1967
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Federal law, 29 USC 621 to 634, prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of age.
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| AGE DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1975
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Federal law, 42 USC 6101 et seq., prohibiting discrimination on the basis of age in federally funded programs or activities.
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| AGING NETWORK
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Refers to Department's Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources, Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), county and tribal aging units (C-TAUs), nutrition projects for the elderly, senior centers, and all other public a and nonprofit organizations in Wisconsin that plan for, develop, and provide services for older adults.
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| AIAC
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American Indian Advisory Committee; advisory to the DHFS Secretary.
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| AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER
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A facility operated exclusively to provide surgical services to patients who do not require overnight hospitalization. Term usually refers to distinct, freestanding centers certified under federal Medicare program. There are also hospital-affiliated ambulatory surgery centers.
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| ANTABUSE
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A drug used to help in the treatment of alcohol abuse; a person on this drug becomes violently ill following ingestion of alcoholic beverages.
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| AOA
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Administration on Aging in HHS; responsible at federal level for Older Americans Act programs.
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| AODA
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Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse.
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| APPLIED RECEIPTS
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Revenues, usually federal, available to offset expenditures for specific services or programs.
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| APPOINTING AUTHORITY
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Any staff person in the Department who has been given the power to appoint individuals to, or to remove them from, subordinate positions.
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| APS
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Automated Personnel System; payroll-related timekeeping system.
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| ARC
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Association for Retarded Citizens
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| ARFOD
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Assistant to Regional Field Operations Director (OQA)
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| ASC
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ambulatory surgical center
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| ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY
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Popular name for a place where 5 or more adults reside which consists of independent apartments and which provides each tenant with up to 28 hours of supportive, personal and nursing services per week; 1997 Wisconsin Act 13 amended statutes to change official name to residential care apartment complex.
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| AWARE
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Activities within a Restricted Environment; a unit at Winnebago Mental Health Institute that provides long-term care for persons who have not responded to treatment in other settings and who have demonstrated an inability to function outside of an institution.
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Definition |
| B&C
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Billings and Collections
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| B-FORM
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Any of various forms required in preparation of the Department's budget request to show the details of that request.
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| BAC
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Blood alcohol content.
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| BADGERCARE
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Wisconsin's program to implement a child health plan block grant under Title XXI of the Federal Social Security Act and to expand Medicaid eligiblity to ensure that all children and parents in families with income below 185% of the federal poverty level that do not have health insurance have access to health care.
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| BADR
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Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources in the DHFS Division of Long Term Care.
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| BALTCR
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(Formerly) Bureau of Aging and Long-Term Care Resources in the DHFS Division of Supportive Living. Is now part of function in BLTS and BADR
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| BCA
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Basic County Allocation; that part of a county's allocation from the total funds appropriated under s. 20.435 (7)(b), (i) and (o), Stats., for community aids that can be used broadly to pay for social services and services for mentally disabled persons; administered by DSL/DCFS.
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| BCMH
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(Formerly) Bureau of Community Mental Health in the DHFS Division of Supportive Living. Merged with Substance Abuse and is now Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
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| BDD
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Bureau of Disability Determination in the DHFS Division of Health Care Financing.
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| BDDS
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(Formerly) Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services in the DHFS Division of Supportive Living. In now Division of Disability and Elder Services in DHFS.
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| BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT (MODIFICATION)
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Systematic application of behavioral techniques, such as positive reinforcement, to persons with behavioral problems in order to establish, change, maintain, or eliminate specified behaviors.
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| BENEFIT SPECIALIST
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A person in each county, usually in the county aging office, who helps elderly persons obtain and keep Medicare, Medical Assistance and other human services program benefits.
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| BFS
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Bureau of Fiscal Services in the DHFS Division of Enterprise Services.
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| BHI
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The former Bureau of Health Information in the DHFS Division of Health Care Financing.
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| BHIP
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Bureau of Health Information and Policy in the Division of Public Health. (Formerly the Bureau of Health Information in the Division of Health Care Financing.)
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| BID
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Background Information Disclosure
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| BIRTH TO 3
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A program of early intervention services for children from birth through age 2 with disabilities, and for their families. Administered by DDES and county administrative agencies in accordance with ch. HFS 90 Adm. Codes.
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| BIS
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Formerly the Bureau of Information Systems in the DHFS Division of Management and Technology. It is now BITS, the Bureau of Information Technolody Services
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| BITS
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Bureau of Information and Technology Services in the Division of Enterprise Services.
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| BLOCK GRANTS
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Federal grants of aid to states; the 6 annual block grants to DHFS are Social Services, Community Services, Maternal and Child Health, Preventive Health and Health Services, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health; Department develops proposals for use of grants and obtains comments of public. Legislature holds hearings, and the final applications are submitted to the Federal government for the next year's funding.
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| BLTS
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Bureau of Long-Term Support in the DHFS Division of Long Term Care.
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| BMHSAS
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Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
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| BOALTC
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Board on Aging and Long Term Care; an independent state agency that advocates on behalf of elderly and disabled persons who are receiving long-erm residential care, mainly by monitoring development and implementation of policies and programs and investigating complaints about care.
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| BPER
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Bureau of Personnel and Employment Relations in the DHFS Division of Enterprise Services.
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| BSAS
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(Formerly) Bureau of Substance Abuse Services in the DHFS Division of Supportive Living; AODA prevention and treatment. Merged with Mental Health and is now the Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
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| BSD
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(Formerly) Bureau for Sensory Disabilities in the DHFS Division of Supportive Living. In now Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources, both the Office of Hard of Hearing and Deaf and Office of Blind and Visually Impaired.
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| BUDGET MANDATE
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A directive from the Legislature to a state agency transmitted through a budget act, requiring the agency to do something by a certain date, e.g., carry out a study and submit a report with recommendations.
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| BWRS
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Fiscal Work Reporting System
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Definition |
| C-TAU
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County or tribal aging unit.
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| CAA
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Community Action Agency, a local anti-poverty agency.
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| CAH
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critical access hospital
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| CAP
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Community Action Program.
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| CAREGIVER MISCONDUCT REGISTRY
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The Department's record of persons who while working as caregivers in specified Department-regulated facilities or for specified Department-regulated programs were found to have abused or neglected a client or misappropriated a client's property.
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| CARS
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Community Aids Reporting System.
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| CBRF
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Community-based residential facility; a place in which 5 or more unrelated adults live and where they receive care, treatment, or services, but not nursing care on any permanent basis, in addition to board and room. CBRFs are licensed by DHFS under ch. HFS 83 rules.
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| CDSD
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Center for Delivery System Development in the Department's Division of Disability and Elder Services.
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| CEO
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chief executive officer
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| CERT REQUEST
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A personnel form used to obtain permission to take action to fill a vacant position.
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| CERTIFICATION
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A type of approval in the form of a written assurance or declaration that an individual, household, service provider or program meets specified conditions for receiving something or doing something as, for instance, a household to receive food stamps or a health care provider to receive reimbursement for providing services to Medicaid-covered patients.
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| CFR
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Code of Federal Regulations.
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| CHAP
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Community Housing Alternatives Program; provides Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority financing (generally, revenue bond authority) to developers of housing for low-income elderly and chronically disabled persons.
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| CHAPTER 153
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Chapter 153 of the Wisconsin Statutes: governs the collection and dissemination of certain kinds of health care information.
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| CHAPTER 46
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of the Wisconsin Statutes: basic statute for the Department of Health and Family Services.
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| CHAPTER 49
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Chapter 49 of the Wisconsin Statutes: governs public assistance programs including Medical Assistance.
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| CHAPTER 50
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of the Wisconsin Statutes: nursing home, CBRF, adult family home, hospital and hospice regulation.
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| CHAPTER 51
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of the Wisconsin Statutes: commitment for treatment of mental illness; and services for persons who are mentally ill, developmentally disabled, alcohol-abusing or drug abusing.
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| CHAPTER 55
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of the Wisconsin Statutes: protective services for adults, and for developmentally disabled youths age 14 to 17, including court-ordered protective placements.
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| CHAPTER 69
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Chapter 69 of the Wisconsin Statutes: governs the collection of vital statistics.
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| CHAPTER 971
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of the Wisconsin Statutes: includes criminal commitments of the mentally ill. A criminal commitment to a mental health facility is for the purpose of examining a defendant with respect to competency to proceed, treatment directed at regaining competency or for treatment after a finding of not guilty due to mental disease or defect.
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| CHAPTER 980
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of the Wisconsin Statutes; civil commitments of sexually violent persons.
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| CHORE SERVICES
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A variety of nonprofessional services for clients provided or purchased by county social service or human service departments, including lawn care, shopping, errands.
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| CHOW
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change of ownership
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| CHS
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Former Center for Health Statistics in the DHFS Division of Health; now the Bureau of Health Information and Policy in the Division of Public Health.
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| CHSD
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County human services department organized under s. 46.23, Wisconsin Statutes.
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| CII
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Community Integration Initiative in the DHFS Division of Long Term Care.
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| CIP
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Community Integration Program: CIP-IA is for persons relocated or diverted from DD centers; CIP-IB is for developmentally disabled persons relocated or diverted from nursing homes; CIP II is for elderly and physically disabled persons diverted or relocated from nursing homes to appropriate community settings with the assistance of home and community
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| CIU
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Caregiver Investigation Unit (OQA)
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| CLIA
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Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, PL 100-578, and implementing final federal regulations, 42 CFR 493.
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| CLU
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Clinical Lab Unit (CLIA -OQA)
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| CMI
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Chronically mentally ill, in reference to an adult.
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| CMO
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Care Management Organization
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| CMS
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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| CNA
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certified nursing assistant
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| CNM
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certified nurse midwife
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| CNP
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certified nurse practitioner
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| CNS
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Clinical Nurse Specialist
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| CO
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Central Office (CMS) state - Madison/federal - Baltimore
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| COALITION FOR ADVOCACY
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A Madison-based organization that advocates on behalf of developmentally and physically disabled persons.
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| COBRA
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Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
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| COMMUNITY INTEGRATION PROGRAM
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See CIP.
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| COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
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A generic name for community-based residential facilities for adults (CBRFs), group homes for children, and private child care institutions, for purposes of s. 46.03(22), Wisconsin Statutes, dealing with the siting of these facilities and overriding of local zoning ordinances.
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| COMMUNITY OPTIONS PROGRAM
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See COP.
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| CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
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Usually refers to federal regulations governing provider certification under Medicare. Under a federal-state contract, DHFS/OQA certifies that hospitals, home health agencies, hospices and other health care providers comply with those regulations and therefore may participate in Medicare.
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| COP
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Community Options Program; a Department-financed, county-administered program to reduce the number of persons admitted to and resident in nursing homes; involves assessing the need of MA
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| COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
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The county agency established under s. 51.42, Wisconsin Statutes.
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| COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES
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The county agency established under s. 51.437, Wis. Stats.
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| CPI
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consumer protection investigator
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| CRC
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Civil Rights Compliance.
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| CRD
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Chronic renal disease; see also ESRD.
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| CRO
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Client Rights Office in the DHFS Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
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| CSA
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Client services assistant.
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| CSB
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Controlled Substances Board; administers subch.II of Chapter 961, Wis. Stats.
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| CSBG
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Community Services Block Grant.
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| CSP
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Community support program; in communities, a program that coordinates care and treatment services provided to persons with severe and persistent mental illness. Regulated under ch. HFS 63 Adm. Code.
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| CTST EVALUATION
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Competency-to-stand-trial evaluation; the assessment by a psychiatrist or psychologist of a person charged with a criminal offense who because of a mental disorder may be unable to understand the proceedings or help with his or her defense.
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| CWC
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Central Wisconsin Center, a DHFS residential facility in Madison for developmentally disabled persons.
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Definition |
| DATAMANAGER
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A software system that serves as a dictionary of DHFS data.
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| DCF
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Department of Children and Families (DCF). Created on July 1, 2008.
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| DCTF
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Former DHFS Division of Care and Treatment Facilities, merged into Division of Disability and Elder Services (DDES)
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| DD
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As a noun, developmental disability or disabilities; as an adjective or adverb, developmentally disabled.
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| DDB
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Disability Determination Bureau in the DHFS Division of Health Care Financing.
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| DDES
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Former Division of Disability and Elder Services, split into Division of Long Term Care and the Division of Mental Health and Subustance Abuse
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| DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
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A short-term experiment to determine if a new activity is worthwhile, feasible or cost-effective, and to understand its consequences, before any commitment is made to make it permanent.
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| DES
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Former Division of Economic Support in DHSS. Is Now Department of Workforce Development (DWD).
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| DETOXIFICATION
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Emergency treatment for the acutely intoxicated person. Can be medical or non-medical.
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| DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY
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A disability of a person manifested before the age of 22, and expected to continue indefinitely, attributable to mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, brain injury or another neurological condition closely related to mental retardation or requiring treatment similar to that required for mental retardation, and that results in substantial functional limitations in three or more major areas of life activity.
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| DHCF
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Former name of DHCAA, DHFS Division of Health Care Financing; administers MA program.
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| DHFS (now known as DHS)
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Wisconsin State Department of Health and Family Services, began July 1, 1996. Changed to Department of Health Sevices on July 1, 2008.
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| DHS
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Department of Health Services. Renamed on July 1, 2008 from Department of Health & Family Services.
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| DHSS
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(Formerly) Wisconsin State Department of Health and Social Services, to July 1, 1996. Is now Department of Health Services (DHS).
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| DIN
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Decision Item Narrative, a statement justifying a proposal included in a budget request.
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| DIVESTMENT
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In reference to eligibility for Medicaid, the disposal of resources at less than fair market value in order to qualify for benefits.
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| DJC
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Division of Juvenile Corrections in DOC; formerly DYS in DHSS.
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| DLTC
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Division of Long Term Care - previously was part of Division of Disability and Elder Services (DDES)
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| DMHSAS
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Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services - previously was part of the Division of Disability and Elder Services (DDES)
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| DMT
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Formerly the DHFS Division of Management and Technology. Currently is named Division of Enterprise Services (DES)
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| DOC
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Wisconsin State Department of Corrections.
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| DOE
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U.S. Department of Energy.
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| DOJ
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Department of Justice (Wisconsin)
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| DOL
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U.S. Department of Labor.
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| DON
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director of nursing (nursing home)
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| DQA
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Division of Quality Assurance; responsible for licensing nursing homes, home health agencies CBRFs and hospices, approving hospitals, certifying health care providers for Medicare, certifying programs that train and test nurse assistants and aides and operating a registry of qualified nurse assistants and aides.
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| DRGs
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Diagnosis-Related Groups; specific classifications of illnesses into which hospital inpatients are grouped. Under Medicare and MA, hospitals are reimbursed a fixed amount, determined in advance, for each patient admitted for an illness in a given classification.
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| DRL
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Department of Regulation & Licensing (Wisconsin)
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| DSL
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Former DHFS Division of Supportive Living, merged into Division of Disability and Elder Services (DDES)
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| DSM-IV
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The 4th edition (1994) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association.
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| DSS
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County department of social services; administers public assistance and social service programs; same as SSD, CDSS.
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| DVR
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Former Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in DHSS.
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| DWD
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Wisconsin State Department of Workforce Development.
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| DYS
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Former Division of Youth Services in DHSS. Is now Division of Juvenille Corrections (DJC), Department of Corrections.
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Definition |
| EAP
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Employee Assistance Program; in places of employment, identification and referral for counseling of persons who exhibit alcohol abuse, drug abuse or emotional problems which affect their work.
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| EBT
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Electronic Benefits Transfer; a DWD/DHFS project under s. 49.129(7), Stats., to develop an electronic benefit transfer system for delivery of food stamp benefits as an alternative to issuing food stamp coupons.
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| ED/DD
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Developmentally disabled persons who are also emotionally disturbed.
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| EDS
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Electronic Data Systems - the firm which currently serves as fiscal agent (the payer of claims) for Wisconsin's Medical Assistance program and for the HIRSP program.
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| EEN
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Exceptional educational needs.
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| EPSDT
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Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program for children from low-income families; financed by Title XIX; called HealthCheck in Wisconsin.
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| ESRD
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End-Stage Renal Disease, the stage of kidney impairment that is irreversible and requires a regular course of dialysis or renal transplantation to maintain life; also called chronic renal disease (CRD).
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| ETN
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educational teleconference network
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| EXECUTIVE ORDER 12372
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Replaces the former A-95 review process. This federal executive order establishes a process by which parties affected by or otherwise interested in an application made for a federal grant have an opportunity to comment on it at the time it is submitted.
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Definition |
| FAMILY SUPPORT
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A DHFS program under s. 46.985, Wis. Stats., and ch. HFS 65 Adm. Codes, that provides support to families with a severely handicapped child living at home by helping pay for the services and goods that a family needs to care for the family member at home.
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| FAS
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Fetal alcohol syndrome; physical and/or mental anomalies in a newborn child resulting from the mother's drinking of alcoholic beverages during pregnancy.
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| FDA
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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| FDD
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Facility for the developmentally disabled. A type of nursing home primarily for developmentally disabled persons. State centers for developmentally disabled persons are FDDs. Licensed under ch. HFS 134 Adm. Codes.
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| FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL
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Poverty income thresholds by family size; originally developed by the Social Security Administration in 1964; annually updated by the Census Bureau for inflation, with a version simplified for administrative purposes published each February as "poverty income guidelines" by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Federal Register; in 1998, a family of 4 with an income at or below $16,450 is considered poor under the guidelines; income excludes Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and WIC drafts.
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| FFP
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Federal financial participation, i.e., Federal aid.
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| FFY
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Federal fiscal year, October 1 to September 30.
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| FL/CIS
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Facility Licensing/Certification Information System; for DHFS institutions, CCIs, group homes.
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| FMS
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Fiscal Management System.
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| FNS
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Food and Nutrition Service, the part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for Food Stamps.
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| FORENSICS
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The intersection of medicine, especially psychiatry, and the law. Forensic patients of concern to the Department have psychiatric problems and are involved with either the criminal courts or the correctional system. Among these are prisoners who become mentally ill while serving sentence, persons found unable to stand trial because of mental illness or mental defect, and mentally ill or mentally defective persons who have been civilly committed but who are violent or dangerous and need treatment in a secure hospital setting.
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| FOSTER GRANDPARENTS
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Older adults employed by the Department in half-time substitute grandparent capacities at residential institutions for children and youth.
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| FR
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Federal Register. A daily (weekdays) publication containing federal proposed and final regulations and other official federal government announcements.
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| FS
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Food Stamps.
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| FWRS
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Fiscal Work Reporting System
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| FY
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Fiscal year, the twelve-month period used for financial planning purposes; the state's fiscal year is July-June whereas the counties' is January-December and the Federal government's is October-September; FY 06 in state financial planning means the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2006.
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