Agency Vocabulary

2. Diagnosis Term to describe patients with both mental disorders and intellectual disabilities; may also refer to patients with substance abuse issues and mental disorders.
5. Home and Community Based Services.
6. Having an obligation to do something or having care for someone. Accountable.
7. Engaged in a specific activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.
10. Intellectual and Developmental Disability.
11. A physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities.
13. Functional Assessment.
14. Acting in accordance with a wish or command; follow, respect.

1. Consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.
3. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act- a US law to provide privacy standards to protect patients medical records and other health information.
4. Intended to be kept secret. Entrusted with private or restricted information.
8. Required by laws or rules; necessary, essential, imperative.
9. The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information.
12. Involving behavior; the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially towards others.
14. Community Service Provider- RTSSK- provides Day, Residential, and Targeted Case Management services.
15. Managed Care Organization- an organization that combines the functions of health insurance, delivery of care, and administration. Sunflower, Amerigroup, United Healthcare.
16. Community Developmental Disability Organization- the single point of application, eligibility determination, and referral for individuals and families to obtain services through the developmental disability system in Kansas.