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FY 2005 Community Services Performance Contract 3) The Department shall manage its ~en~{ h~alth and mental retardation facilities to support service linkages with the Board, including adherence to the applicable provisions of the Continuity of Care Procedures and the Discharge P/anning Protocols. The Department shall assure that its mental health and mental retardation facilities use teleconferencing technology to the extent practicable and whenever possible to facilitate the Board's participation in treatment planning activities and the Board's fulfillment of its discharge planning responsibilities for its consumers in state facilities. 4) The Department shall involve the Board, as applicable and to the greatest extent possible, in collaborative planning activities regarding the future role and structure of the state facility system. c. Quality of Care 1) The Department with participation from the Board shall identify consumer outcome, provider performance, consumer satisfaction, and consumer and family member participation and involvement measures for inclusion in this contract, pursuant to § 37.1~ 198 of the Code of Virginia, and shall collect information about these measures. 2) The Department may provide professional consultations to the Board upon request for clinically complex or difficult or medically-cemplicated cases within the resources available for this purpose in the Department or its facilities and as permitted under 45 CFR § 164.506 (c) (1), when consumers or their legally authorized representatives have requested second opinions and with valid authorizations that comply with the Human Rights Regulations and the HIPAA Pdvacy Rule, if the Board is not able to provide those second opinions within its resources. d. Reporting Requirements 1) The Department shall work with representatives of Boards to ensure that current data and reporting requirements are consistent with each other and with the current Core Services Taxonomy, Individualized Client Data Elements (ICDE) or Community Consumer Submission (CCS), and TEDS and other federal reporting requirements. The Department also shall work with representatives of Boards in planning and developing any additional reporting or documentation requirements beyond those identified in this contract to ensure that such requirements are consistent with the current Core Services Taxonomy, ICDE or CCS, and TEDS and other federal reporting requirements. 2) The Department shall collaborate with raprasentatives of the Board in the implemen- tation and modification of the Community Consumer Submission (CCS), which reports individual consumer characteristic and service data that is required under § 37.1-198.D of the Code of Virginia, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and Part C of Title XIX of the Public Health Services ACt - Block Grants, § 1943 (a) (3) and § 1971 and § 1949, as amended by Public Law 106-310, to the Department. The Department will receive and use individual consumer characteristic and service data disclosed by the Board through the CCS as permitted under 45 CFR §§ 164.506 (c) (1) and (3) and 164.512 (a) (1) and under § 32.1-127.1:03.D (6) of the Code of Virginia and shall implement procedures to protect the confidentiality of this informatiOn pursuant to § 37.1-197.A.16 and B.16 of the Code of Virginia and HIPAA. 3) The Department will work with representatives of the Board to reduce the number of data elements required whenever this is possible. 4) The Department will ensure that all surveys and requests for data have been reviewed for cost effectiveness and developed through a joint Department and Board process. e. Discharge Assistance Project 1) Department Responsibilities: If the BOard participates in any DAP funded by the Department, the Department shall fund and monitor the DAP as a restricted fund. The n4-Rn-2cin4