Acronyms
AFH stands for?
What is Adult Family home
ADL stands for?
What is Activities of Daily Living
TThis ADL includes the associated hygiene and clothing management involved with using a toilet, commode, bedpan, or urinal.
What is Toileting?
The purpose of this policy is to outline the safety requirements for all WA Cares Fund staff while conducting community visits.
What is POL.001 Community Visit Safety?
This document establishes the process assessment staff will follow to prepare for an assessment after receiving a Beneficiary File Assignment from intake. These procedures cover reviewing intake records, confirming assessment appointments, rescheduling, and reassigning a Care Needs Assessment.
AAA stands for?
What is Area Agency on Aging
DSHS stands for?
Department of Social and Health Services
This ADL includes positioning the body while lying down, regardless of whether the individual sleeps in a traditional bed or another piece of furniture designed for sleeping.
What is Bed Mobility?
The purpose of this policy is to establish the standards used to determine WA Cares Fund eligibility for in-state applicants. Eligibility for WA Cares includes two separate determinations.
What is POL.003 Eligibility Determination?
This procedure outlines the process for conducting a Care Needs Assessment to determine functional eligibility for WA Cares Fund benefits and to identify suggested services. The suggested services are based on the beneficiary’s responses to the assessment questions and discussion with the assessor.
What is PRO.202 Conducting Assessment
AU stands for?
What is Authorized User
DPOA stands for?
What is Durable Power of Attorney?
This ADL includes oral intake, tube feeding, and intravenous nutrition, but excludes assistance that occurs before the first bite is taken.
What is Eating?
This policy establishes the requirements for adding or removing authorized users, authorized users with legal documentation, verifying legal representatives, and sharing information with authorized users or authorized users with legal documentation.
The purpose of this procedure is to establish the process for vehicle use and accident reporting for staff conducting WA Cares assessments or performing other assigned duties in the community. It outlines the necessary preparation, precautions, and procedures to follow while driving a vehicle for WA Cares related duties. Staff may use state- or privately-owned vehicles for these duties.
What is PRO.203 Vehicle Use and Accident Reporting?
BCC stands for?
What is Benefits and Customer Care
MVP stands for?
What is Minimum Viable Product?
This activity focuses on how a person organizes and takes prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, or supplements, including situations where medication must be administered by another person.
What is Medication Management?
This policy establishes requirements for receipt, handling, imaging, security, and disposal of documents in accordance with department administrative procedures. Documents are a subset of public records that have readable or viewable information, whether physical (hard copy) or digital (soft copy).
What is POL.012 Document Management
This procedure establishes the process that WA Cares uses to prevent abuse and neglect and to protect, to the extent possible, the health, safety, and well-being of beneficiaries, and ensure that concerns or allegations involving abuse, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment are reported.
What is PRO.109 Mandated Reporting?
DME stands for?
What is Durable Medical Equipment
CDWA stands for?
What is Consumer Direct Care Network Washington
Although it involves movement, this ADL excludes getting into or out of a bathtub, toilet, or vehicle
What is Transferring?
The purpose of this policy is to outline the requirements and criteria for providing options consultation, information, and referrals for long-care programs and other community-based resources, and cross-agency referrals to any caller, customer, applicant, or beneficiary.
What is POL.007 Referrals?
This procedure establishes the process for identifying, reporting, and processing allegations of misuse of funds, fraud, or provider violations within the WA Cares Fund program. Reports will be processed by either the Beneficiary Appeals Program Manager or the Provider Network Program Integrity (PNPI) team, based on the allegation.
What is PRO.116 Misuse of Funds and Fraud?