Acronym Glossary

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• C-TAU

  County or tribal aging unit.

• CAH

  critical access hospital

• CAP

  Community Action Program

  Corrective Action Plan

• Care4Kids

  Care coordination for children and teens in foster care in Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington, or Waukesha County.

• Caregiver Misconduct Registry

  The Department's record of persons who while working as caregivers in specified Department-regulated facilities or for specified Department-regulated programs were found to have abused or neglected a client or misappropriated a client's property.

• CARES

  Client Assistance for Re-employment and Economic Support System; Wisconsin's income maintenance eligibility system.

• CARS

  Community Aids Reporting System. System changed to GEARS (Grants Enrollment, Application and Reporting System) in 2023.

• CBRF

  Community-based residential facility; a place in which 5 or more unrelated adults live and where they receive care, treatment, or services, but not nursing care on any permanent basis, in addition to board and room. CBRFs are licensed by DHS under ch. HFS 83 rules.

• CCS

  Comprehensive Community Services is a program for people with mental health and substance use needs that, if ignored, could lead them to being hospitalized in times of crisis.

• CDC

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a division of HHS.

• CERT Request

  A personnel form used to obtain permission to take action to fill a vacant position.

• Certification

  A type of approval in the form of a written assurance or declaration that an individual, household, service provider or program meets specified conditions for receiving something or doing something as, for instance, a household to receive food stamps or a health care provider to receive reimbursement for providing services to Medicaid-covered patients.

• CFR

  Code of Federal Regulations.

• CHAP

  Community Housing Alternatives Program; provides Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority financing (generally, revenue bond authority) to developers of housing for low-income elderly and chronically disabled persons.

• Chapter 252

  of the Wisconsin Statutes: prevention and control of communicable diseases.

• Chapter 254

  of the Wisconsin Statutes: environmental health.

• Chapter 51

  of the Wisconsin Statutes: commitment for treatment of mental illness; and services for persons who are mentally ill, developmentally disabled, alcohol-abusing or drug abusing.

• Chapter 971

  This state law allows for the criminal commitment to a mental health facility for a competency evaluation, treatment to competency, and/or treatment after a finding of not guilty due to mental disease or defect.

• Chapter 980

  of the Wisconsin Statutes; civil commitments of sexually violent persons.

• CHAW

  Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin

• Children's Long-Term Support Program (CLTS)

  Supports and services for children with disabilities under age 22 and their families. The program aims to keep kids at home instead of at an institution.

• CHIP

  Children's Health Insurance Program provides health coverage to eligible children, through both Medicaid and separate CHIP programs.

• CHIPPs

  Community Health Improvement Process and Plans are required by Wisconsin State Statutes from communities to develop and implement local health plans to address health conditions impacting their residents.

• Chore Services

  A variety of nonprofessional services for clients provided or purchased by county social service or human service departments, including lawn care, shopping, errands.

• CHOW

  change of ownership

• CHSD

  County human services department organized under s. 46.23, Wisconsin Statutes.

• CLIA

  Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, PL 100-578, and implementing final federal regulations, 42 CFR 493.

• CLU

  Clinical Lab Unit (CLIA -DQA)

• CMMI

  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

• CMO

  Care Management Organization

• CMS

  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This is the federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.  

• CNA

  certified nursing assistant

• CNM

  certified nurse midwife

• CNP

  certified nurse practitioner

• CNS

  Clinical Nurse Specialist

• COBRA

  The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) requires employers to allow former employees to continue coverage through the employer's group plan for 18 months after their employment has ended (29 months if the employee is disabled). In most cases, the former employee must pay the full cost of COBRA coverage.

• Community Integration Program (CIP)

  Community Integration Program: CIP-IA is for persons relocated or diverted from DD centers; CIP-IB is for developmentally disabled persons relocated or diverted from nursing homes; CIP II is for elderly and physically disabled persons diverted or relocated from nursing homes to appropriate community settings with the assistance of home and community

• Community Living Arrangements

  A generic name for community-based residential facilities for adults (CBRFs), group homes for children, and private child care institutions, for purposes of s. 46.03(22), Wisconsin Statutes, dealing with the siting of these facilities and overriding of local zoning ordinances.

• Conditions of Participation

  Usually refers to federal regulations governing provider certification under Medicare. Under a federal-state contract, DHS/OQA certifies that hospitals, home health agencies, hospices and other health care providers comply with those regulations and therefore may participate in Medicare.

• COOP

  Continuity of Operations

• COP

  Community Options Program; a Department-financed, county-administered program to reduce the number of persons admitted to and resident in nursing homes; involves assessing the need of MA

• COWSS

  County Oral health Wisconsin Surveillance System

• CPI

  Center for Program Integrity

  Consumer Protection Investigator

• CPT

  Current Procedural Terminology

• CRC

  Civil Rights Compliance.

• CRD

  Chronic renal disease; see also ESRD.

• CRS

  Community Recovery Services (CRS) provides three specific services (Community Living Supportive Services, Supported Employment and Peer Supports) under the umbrella of psychosocial rehabilitation.

• CSA

  Client services assistant.

• CSBG

  Community Services Block Grant.

• CSFP

  Commodity Supplemental Food Program offers free, nutritious foods to eligible low-income seniors aged 60 years and older.

• CSP

  Community support program; in communities, a program that coordinates care and treatment services provided to persons with severe and persistent mental illness. Regulated under ch. HFS 63 Adm. Code.

• CT Scanner

  Computed tomography scanner; a medical diagnostic device which uses radiographic and computer techniques to produce cross-sectional images of head and body.-

• CWC

  Central Wisconsin Center, a DHS residential facility in Madison for developmentally disabled persons.

• CYSHCN

  Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program within the Division of Public Health.