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If the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is the cognizant Federal agency for your institution, you will negotiate your indirect cost rate with the HHS Division of Cost Allocation (DCA).

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For information on funding opportunities, including grant announcements and policy notices that apply to grants, go to Funding Opportunities page.

The full text of requests for applications and grant announcements from ´óÏóÊÓƵis published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, which is available online at .

Home and community-based services (HCBS) are long-term care services provided in a noninstitutional setting (not in a nursing home or an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded). The services encompass a range of health, health-related, and social support services including personal assistance services such as bathing, dressing, and eating, case management, home health care, homemaker services, habilitation and therapy services, and respite services, among others.

These services are:

• Used by persons who lose independence as a consequence of physical, cognitive, and mental impairments.
• Also provided to persons at the end of life who need palliative care to maintain their quality of life.
• Provided to children and adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illness that require assistance to achieve or maintain age-appropriate functioning.

HCBS can be participant-directed, provider-managed, or both and may be delivered in an individual's home, community-based setting, or small, alternative residential setting, such as a group home or assisted living facility. Various "waiver" authorities of the Social Security Act permit States flexibility in how they offer services under their Medicaid programs.

Medicaid HCBS are frequently authorized under Section 1915(c) of that Act, but this can vary by State and program authority.

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Long-term care (LTC) services encompass a range of health, health-related, and social support services including personal assistance services such as bathing, dressing, and eating, case management, home health care, homemaker services, habilitation and therapy services, and respite services, among others. These services are used by persons who lose independence as a consequence of physical, cognitive, and mental impairments. LTC services are also provided to persons at the end of life who need palliative care to maintain their quality of life as well as to children and adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illness who require assistance to achieve age-appropriate functioning.

LTC services may be delivered in an individual's home, a community-based setting, an alternative residential setting (such as a group home or assisted living facility), or an institutional setting (nursing home or an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities).

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Long-term care (LTC) services encompass a range of health, health-related, and social support services including personal assistance services such as bathing, dressing, and eating, case management, home health care, homemaker services, habilitation and therapy services, and respite services, among others. These services are used by persons who lose independence as a consequence of physical, cognitive, and mental impairments. LTC services are also provided to persons at the end of life who need palliative care to maintain their quality of life as well as to children and adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental illness who require assistance to achieve age-appropriate functioning.

LTC services may be delivered in an individual's home, a community-based setting, an alternative residential setting (such as a group home or assisted living facility), or an institutional setting (nursing home or an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities).

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These councils involve patients, consumers, and a variety of practitioners and professionals from health care and community organizations that encourage patient safety through education, collaboration, and consumer involvement.

For more information, go to the Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council.

These councils involve patients, consumers, and a variety of practitioners and professionals from health care and community organizations that encourage patient safety through education, collaboration, and consumer involvement.

For more information, go to the Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council.

No. It is not necessary to apply for a certificate of confidentiality issued under section 301(d) of the Public Health Service Act for a research project supported by the ´óÏóÊÓƵ (AHRQ).

The ´óÏóÊÓƵconfidentiality statute, 42 USC 299c-3(c), requires information that is obtained in the course of AHRQ-supported activities and that identifies individuals or establishments be used only for the purpose for which it was supplied. Information that is obtained in the course of AHRQ-supported activities and that identifies an individual may be published or released only with the consent of the individual who supplied the information or is described in it. There are civil monetary penalties for violation of the confidentiality provision of the ´óÏóÊÓƵstatute, 42 USC 299c-3(d).

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) grant programs in general have requirements for both financial and programmatic performance reporting. Please refer to the Reporting Requirements section for additional details.

This minor software release, v2018.0.1, fixes two of the recently identified software discrepancies. Please refer to the (PDF) for details.