W. Va. Code R. § 64-67-3 - Definitions

3.1. Base amount -- The amount of floor funding provided to each county up to the amount required to pay the costs of four full time staff persons, including a nurse, a sanitarian, an administrator and a clerical worker using statewide average salaries for each position plus 30% for benefits and 20% for overhead.

3.2. Bureau -- The Bureau for Public Health in the Department of Health and Human Resources.

3.3. CBER Funding Study -- The Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) at Marshall University. CBER performed an in depth study of the status of public health funding in West Virginia titled, People at Risk: The Financial Crisis in West Virginia Public Health, dated December 3, 2007. The study made recommendations for establishing a new funding formula to distribute state funds more fairly and equitably. The CBER study recommendations form the basis for the distribution formula adopted in this rule.

3.4. Commissioner -- The Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health or her or his designee.

3.5. Consolidation -- A formal combining of two or more local health departments and the combining of their boards of health.

3.6. Fiscal Year -- Twelve (12) month period beginning the first day of July and ending the thirtieth day of June.

3.7. Interventions -- The number of interventions per thousand population above the state average in the local health department service area, which may include, but shall not be limited to, total patient encounters, environmental inspections, permits issued and other appropriate quantifiable public health services performed by local health departments.

3.8. Local Board of Health -- A board of health created under the provisions of W. Va. Code § 16-2-1, et seq.

3.9. Need factor -- The relative importance expressed as a mathematical value for each of five health measurement factors described in subsection 4.3. of this rule used to allocate state funds in a fair and equitable manner among local health departments.

3.10. Population -- The population of a county as determined by the Population Estimates Program of the United States Census Bureau data (www.census.gov).

3.11. Population density -- A calculation derived from the population data and the Land Area retrieved from the United States Census Bureau.

3.12. Poverty level -- The last full year of data per county as reported in the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for West Virginia counties.

3.13. State Funds for basic public health services -- All funds appropriated by the Legislature to support local boards of health.

3.14. Years of life lost -- The last full year of data as reported by the West Virginia Office of Vital Statistics by county for resident deaths and potential years of life lost before age 75.

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W. Va. Code R. § 64-67-3