Treatments
An airway treatment via a mask that creates a slight positive pressure during inhalation to increase the amount of air breathed in, decrease the work of breathing, and keep the throat from collapsing during sleep.
What is Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP or BiPAP)?
WA state establishes eligibility for services using this tool.
What is CARE (Comprehensive Assessment Reporting Evaluation Tool)
Physical or verbal assistance with activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) due to functional limitations.
What is personal care services?
A supervised daytime program providing core services for adults with medical or disabling conditions that do not require the intervention or services of a registered nurse or licensed rehabilitative therapist acting under the supervision of the client's physician or ARNP.
What is Adult Day Care?
A residential home in which a person or persons provide personal care, special care, and room and board to more than one person who are not related by blood or marriage to the person or persons providing the service.
What is an AFH?
A technique used to remove toxins & wastes from the blood when the kidneys fail.
What is dialysis?
To continue to obtain federal funding, the federal government requires an in-person assessment to be performed at least annually to determine program eligibility.
What is an Annual CARE assessment?
Allows Registered Nurses to delegate specific nursing tasks to qualified long-termed care workers (LTCW).
What is Nurse Delegation services?
Physical modifications to the private residence of the client (owned or rented).
What is environmental modifications?
It provides a person-centered approach to designing and delivering meaningful activities for eligible DSHS clients.
What is Meaningful Day activities?
Cleaning around tube site; changing, cleaning and filling bags.
What is Gastrostomy/Peg Care?
Individuals who have a mental, neurological, physical, or sensory impairment that prevents them from getting program benefits in the same was as those who are not impaired in the same was as those who are not impaired are considered this.
What is Necessary Supplemental Accommodations (NSA)?
What is a personal emergency response system (PERS)?
Nutritional balanced meals delivered to the client's home with an additional face to face contact to monitor the client's well-being and safety.
What is home delivered meals?
ALFs with a designated separate care unit.
What is an EARC?
Retained within the bladder for the purpose of continuous drainage of urine.
What is indwelling catheter care?
Resources available to fully or partially complete individual ADL and IADL tasks identified in the client's care plan.
What are examples of informal supports?
Technology devices and supports that enhance independence or substitute for human assistance, which are not covered for the client by any other funding source.
What is assistive technology (AT) as defined under CFC?
Items that may be known as DME and SES.
What is Specialized Medical Equipment and Supplies?
Under federal rules, individuals who live in residential settings must have opportunities to engage in community life and not be isolated from their community or other people who do not live in a residential facility.
What is community integration?
Includes any drugs given directly into a vein from a syringe or diluted in a volume of fluid that drips in over a period of time.
What is Intravenous (IV) medications?
The client and the paid caregiver both benefit from the IADL task being performed.
What is shared benefit?
Functional skills training to accomplish, maintain, or enhance Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), or Health related tasks.
What is Skills Acquisition Training (SAT)?
Service offered in order to enable clients enrolled in the waiver to gain access to waiver and other community services, activities and resources , as specified in the service plan.
What is Transportation?
Full access to the greater community; receive services in the community; control over personal resources; autonomy and independence in making life choices, including but not limited to daily activities, physical environment and with whom to interact.
What are client rights in HCBS settings?