Home and Community Care (HACC) goods and equipment received cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Community Services (retired), Recorded 16/11/2009

This cluster is used to determine the total amount of assistance with types of goods and equipment received by a client during the reporting period.

This cluster includes the amount of a category of goods or equipment provided (by purchase or loan) to the client by an agency, measured in quantity, during a HACC service event.

The date, location and source of funding for that goods and equipment provision in the HACC service event are also required to be detailed.

Collection and usage attributes

Service episode - type of goods and services received, code N is derived from the other Data Elements in this cluster:

• Service event—assistance received date, DDMMYYYY
• Service event—assistance type, HACC code N[N]
• Service event—service delivery setting, HACC code [N]
• Service event—funding source, HACC code N
• Service event—type of goods and equipment received, code N

The agency should use the data elements listed above to report on the total amount and type of assistance with goods and equipment that the person has received from the agency within the reporting period.

allows agencies to select service delivery events that were provided within the HACC MDS reporting period.

allows agencies to identify service delivery involving the receipt of Goods and Equipment.

Service event—funding source, HACC code N:

allows the agency to include only those goods and equipment whose provision was funded either wholly or partially through the HACC program (i.e. only HACC service events).

Service event—type of goods and equipment received, code N:

indicates the amount and type of goods or equipment received by the person on each occasion of service delivery.

The field size allows the total amount of each category of goods/equipment to be reported received by a client during a HACC MDS reporting period. The total amount received by the client for each of the seven categories of goods/equipment should be reported in the following order:

Three digits should be coded for each category. Where the agency has provided no assistance of a given category to the client within the reporting period, the amount of assistance should be reported as 000 (i.e. zero).

Relational attributes