Or. Admin. Code § 410-152-0010

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 11, November 1, 2024

Section 410-152-0010 - Definitions

(1) "Authority" means the Oregon Health Authority.

(2) "Certification" means the national training and program credentials to be certified as a Violence Prevention Professional.

(3) "Certified Violence Prevention Professionals" mean mentors, violence interrupters, community members, credible messengers, advocates, and activists that have received certification through an Authority approved training and certification program.

(4) "Community Based Organization" means a public or private nonprofit organization that is representative of a community or significant segments of a community and provides educational or related services to individuals in the community. See section (16) of this rule..

(5) "Community Violence" means intentional acts of interpersonal violence committed by individuals who are not intimately related to the victim.

(6) "Community Violence Prevention Bundled Services" means the array of services included under one billing code. See OAR 410-152-0030.

(7) "Community Violence Prevention Services" means evidence-based, trauma-informed, supportive and non-psychotherapeutic services provided by a certified violence prevention professional in any appropriate setting, for the purpose of promoting improved health outcomes and positive behavioral change, preventing further injury and future violence.

(8) "Credible messengers" are individuals who can connect with and motivate at-risk people to successfully challenge and transform destructive thinking, attitudes, and actions.

(9) "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.

(10) "Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs" are multidisciplinary programs that combine the efforts of medical staff with trusted community-based partners to provide safety planning, services, and trauma-informed care to violently injured people.

(11) "Individual" means a victim of community violence who is receiving services.

(12) "Intimate Partner Violence" means physical, sexual, or psychosexual harm by a current or former partner or spouse.

(13) "Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts" means a physician or other practitioner licensed in the State of Oregon who is authorized within the scope of the Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Art's practice, as defined under state law, to diagnose and treat individuals with physical or mental disabilities or psychosocial, emotional, and behavioral disorders.

(14) "Multi-Disciplinary Care" is a collaborative approach to health care involving a diverse group of professionals working together to address all aspects of planning and ongoing care.

(15) "Plan of Care" means a presentation of information that easily describes the services and support being given to an individual.

(16) "Provider" means an organizational entity or qualified person that is certified to provide direct delivery of community violence prevention services.

(17) "Social Determinants of Health" means conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes.

(18) "Supportive Services" means assistance to obtain medically appropriate and medically necessary services to address social determinates of health.

(19) "Trauma" means an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects of the individual's functioning and physical, social emotional, or spiritual well-being.

(20) "Trauma Informed Care" (TIC) means an approach to the delivery of behavioral health services that includes an understanding of trauma and an awareness of the impact it can have across settings, services, and populations. Trauma-informed care views trauma through an ecological and cultural lens and recognizes that context plays a significant role in how individuals perceive and process traumatic events, whether acute or chronic. TIC involves vigilance in anticipating and avoiding institutional processes and individual practices that are likely to retraumatize individuals who already have histories of trauma. TIC upholds the importance of consumer participation in the development, delivery, and evaluation of services.

(21) "Victim" means a person who was physically or psychological injured because of community violence.

(22) "Wet signature" means the use of a physical signature, made by hand with a pen, to bind the party signing to the terms of the document upon which they leave their signature.

Or. Admin. Code § 410-152-0010

DMAP 89-2024, adopt filed 05/01/2024, effective 5/1/2024

Statutory/Other Authority: Oregon Medicaid State Plan Amendment, 42 C.F.R 440.130 (c), House Bill 4045 & 2022 Legislative Session

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 413.032, 413.042 & 414.065