The following words and phrases, when used in
this article, shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,
the meanings given to them in this section:
COMMUNITY-BASED MR SYSTEM
Pennsylvania's County-run mental retardation service system
established by the 1966 Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act.
CONSUMER
An individual who is registered with the County mental retardation
program or who receives supports or services from facilities licensed
by the Department of Public Welfare's Office of Mental Retardation,
or both.
DIRECT CARE WORKER
Workers in the Community-Based MR System whose primary contact
is with consumers of services. This term shall also apply to those
employees who are designated as Specialist Assistant 1, 2, 3 or 4
within the personnel action plan filed with the County.
INTEGRATED EMPLOYMENT
Employment of a person with a developmental disability where
the employer is not related to the pre-vocational facility; sometimes
called "competitive employment."
PROVIDER
An entity that receives funds pursuant to a contract with
Allegheny County, specifically with the Allegheny County Department
of Human Services, either directly or indirectly, to provide or secure
supports or services for individuals authorized to receive services
from a County mental retardation program.
VOCATIONAL FACILITY
A premises in which rehabilitative, habilitative, or handicapped
employment or employment training is provided to one or more disabled
clients for part of a twenty-four-hour day, as defined by 55 Pa. Code.
Chapter 2390.
In addition to the documents delineated in § 5-919.03,
the Department of Human Services shall also generate and make available
to the public, both in hard copy upon request and through posting
to the County's Web site, beginning no later than January 1, 2007,
a provider report summarizing the data available to the County for
each provider under contract with the Office of Mental Retardation/Developmental
Disabilities, which shall include the following:
A. General information:
(1)
Provider's name, business address, and telephone
number;
(2)
Contact person and phone number;
(3)
Name of program, type of service provided, and
goals of program; and
(4)
Hours of operation, licensed consumer capacity,
and current consumer enrollment.
B. Business information:
(1)
A copy of the provider's Allegheny County Supplemental
Schedule of Functional Expenditures by Cost Center;
C. Vocational facilities data:
(1)
Number of consumers working in vocational facilities;
and
(2)
Number of consumers in previous year who moved
from vocational facilities to integrated employment.
D. Information submitted voluntarily by the provider:
(1)
Annual aggregate turnover rate amongst provider's
direct care workers employed to provide contracted services;
(2)
The salary of the provider's chief executive
officer or individual with equivalent duties;
(3)
For providers not supplying information under Subsection
D(1) or
(2), the Department shall note "Provider supplied no information" on the topic(s) to which it applies in its summary.
E. Incident information:
(1)
The number of Home and Community Services Information
System (HCSIS) incident reports that have been reviewed and approved
by the County as described in 55 Pa. Code § 6000.971 for
which investigation was required, broken into incident categories
consistent with 55 Pa. Code § 6000.925; and
(2)
A statement to be drafted by the Department
explaining the relevance and appropriate use of incident data, noting
the possibility for variable interpretations of incident data, and
directing the consumer to other sources, including the provider and
the consumer's supports coordinator, for additional information;
(3)
In all information released to the public, names
of consumers and other information by which a consumer could be identified,
as well as confidential health information as defined by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), shall be removed
or struck out by the County prior to release to the public.