Section 216-RICR-20-05-3.3 - DefinitionsA. As used in these regulations, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated: 1. "Agreement" means the written document between the Rhode Island Department of Health WIC Program and a local agency which states the responsibilities and obligations of both parties in order to provide the WIC Program. The period covered by the WIC agreement is the Federal fiscal year.2. "Applicant" means an individual who makes application for WIC Program benefits.3. "Breastfeeding Women" means women up to one year postpartum who are breastfeeding their infants on average of at least once a day.4. "Certification" means the use of criteria and procedures to assess and document each applicant's eligibility for the Program.5. "Children" means persons who have had their first birthday but have not yet attained their fifth birthday.6. "Clients" means pregnant women, breastfeeding women, postpartum women, infants, and children who are receiving supplemental foods or food instruments under the WIC Program and the breastfed infants of breastfeeding women who are receiving supplemental foods or food instruments under the WIC Program.7. "Clinic" means a facility where applicants are certified.8. "Competent Professional Authority (CPA)" means an individual on the staff of the local agency who is authorized to determine nutritional risk and prescribe supplemental foods. The professional qualifications required of competent professional authorities are set forth in Federal Regulations. A competent professional authority is herein considered to be a physician, a nutritionist, a dietician, a registered nurse, a physician's assistant or a state or local medically trained health professional approved by the state agency. Also applies to qualified persons not on the staff of the local agency who are qualified to provide medical/nutritional assessment data.9. "Confidential health care information" means all information relating to a patient's health care history, diagnosis, condition, treatment or evaluation.10. "Days" means calendar days except for those time standards which specify working days.11. "Disqualification" means the act of ending Program participation of a participant, food Vendor, or authorized state or local agency, whether as a punitive sanction or for administrative reasons.12. "Dual Participation" means simultaneous participation in the Program in one or more than one WIC clinic.13. "Family" means a group of related or non-related individuals who are living together as one economic unit, except that residents of a homeless facility or an institution shall not all be considered as members of a single family.14. "FNS" means the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.15. "Fiscal Year" means the period of 12 calendar months beginning 1 October of any calendar year and ending 30 September of the following calendar year.16. "Homeless Facility" means the following types of facilities which provide meal service: A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter (including a welfare hotel, congregate shelter or shelter for victims of domestic violence) designed to provide temporary living accommodations; a facility that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a public or private place not designed for or normally used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.17. "Homeless Individual" means one who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or whose primary nighttime residence is one of the following: a. A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter (including a welfare hotel, congregate shelter or shelter for victims of domestic violence) designed to provide temporary living accommodations;b. an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized;c. a temporary accommodation in the residence of another individual; ord. a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.18. "Income Poverty Guidelines" means 185% of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) poverty guidelines.19. "Infants" means persons under one year of age.20. "Institution" means any residential accommodation which provides meal service, except private residences and homeless facilities.21. "Local Agency" means an agency under contract with the Rhode Island Department of Health to provide WIC Program services.22. "NSA Funds" means Nutrition and Administration funds used to provide WIC services.23. "Nutrition Education" means individual or group educational sessions and the provision of information and educational materials designed to improve health status, achieve positive change in dietary habits, and emphasize relationships between nutrition and health, all in keeping with the individual's personal, cultural, and socioeconomic preferences.24. "Nutritional Risk" means:a. Detrimental or abnormal nutritional conditions detectable by biochemical or anthropometric measurements;b. Other documented nutritionally related medical conditions;c. Dietary deficiencies that impair or endanger health ord. Conditions that predispose persons to inadequate nutritional patterns or nutritionally related medical conditions.25. "Participation" means the number of persons who have received supplemental foods or food instruments in the reporting period plus the number of breastfed infants of breastfeeding women who have received supplemental foods or food instruments in the reporting period.26. "Payee" means the custodial parent or guardian or, if unavailable, the delegated caretaker for an infant or child. Authorized to pick up checks and redeem them for food at authorized Program Vendors.27. "Postpartum Women" means women up to six months after termination of pregnancy.28. "Pregnant Women" means women determined to have one or more embryos or fetuses in utero.29. "Resident" means a person making one's home in a place, who can provide evidence of such residence or who is homeless and living in an authorized WIC homeless facility or institution or is homeless and can show evidence of living and sleeping in a place not designed for or normally used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.30. "RIDOH" means Rhode Island Department of Health.31. "State agency" means Rhode Island Department of Health.32. "Vendor" means a grocer, pharmacy, small corner store that has contracted with RIDOH WIC Program to provide WIC authorized foods to WIC clients and accepting WIC checks as payment.33. "WIC Program" means the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.34. "WIC Check" means a check issued by the Rhode Island Department of Health WIC Program specifying certain WIC allowed foods which is used by a participant to obtain the specified foods.216 R.I. Code R. 216-RICR-20-05-3.3