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Title 4 - ADMINISTRATIONPart I - GOVERNOR's OFFICEChapter 7a - ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Subchapter J - PARTICIPANT-DIRECTED HOME CARE SERVICES
Section 7a.111 - Definitions

4 Pa. Code § 7a.111

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Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 49, December 7, 2024
Section 7a.111 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Department-The Department of Human Services.

Deputy Secretary-The Deputy Secretary of Human Services for Long Term Living.

Direct care worker-A person who provides participant-directed services in a participant's home under a home care service program.

Direct Care Worker List-A monthly list compiled at the direction of and maintained by the Department of the names and addresses of all direct care workers who have within the previous 3 months been paid through a home care service program that provides participant-directed services. The list shall specify the program through which each direct care worker is paid, but nothing that would identify the name of any participant.

Direct Care Worker Representative-The designated representative elected according to the procedure in § 7a.113 (relating to Direct Care Worker Representative).

Home care service programs-The following programs administered by the OLTL and any successor programs:

(i) The Aging Waiver Program.
(ii) The Attendant Care Waiver Program.
(iii) The CommCare Waiver Program.
(iv) The Independence Waiver Program.
(v) The OBRA Waiver Program.
(vi) The Act 150 Program.

OLTL-The Department's Office of Long Term Living.

Participant-A person who receives services from a direct care worker under a home care service program.

Participant-directed services-

(i) Personal assistance services, respite and participant-directed community supports or similar types of services provided to a senior or a person with a disability who requires assistance and wishes to hire, terminate, direct and supervise the provision of care under the home care service programs, provided now and in the future, to:
(A) Meet the person's daily living needs.
(B) Ensure the person may adequately function in the person's home.
(C) Provide the person with safe access to the community.
(ii) The term does not include any care provided by a worker employed by an agency as defined in section 802.1 of the Health Care Facilities Act (35 P. S. § 448.802a).

Secretary-The Secretary of Human Services.

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