N.H. Admin. Code § He-P 301.01 - Definitions

(a) "Acceptable immunization" means the immunizations required in RSA 141-C:20-a and the doses and age requirements in He-P 301.14.

(b) "Admitting official" means the principal or his or her designated representative, headmaster or director of the public or non-public school, state agency, or child care agency.

(c) "Applicant" means the person for whom application is made to either the AIDS drug assistance or the tuberculosis patient care financial assistance program, and who becomes a recipient if he or she is determined to be medically and financially eligible.

(d) "Carrier" means a person or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease and serves as a potential source of infection.

(e) "Case" means any person afflicted with a communicable disease.

(f) "Chief complaint" means the patient's set of symptoms and illnesses when the patient first presents to the emergency department of a hospital.

(g) "Child care agency" means "child care agency" as defined in RSA 141-C:2, IV-b.

(h) "Commissioner" means "commissioner" as defined in RSA 141-C:2, IX.

(i) "Communicable disease" means "communicable disease" as defined in RSA 141-C:2, VI.

(j) "Common cup" means an open drinking vessel shared by individuals in public places without disinfection between uses.

(k) "Conditional enrollment" means the temporary enrollment of a student who has documentation of at least one dose of each required vaccine and an appointment date(s) for the next scheduled dose(s) .

(l) "Congregate setting" means any setting or location where people come together including, but not limited to, schools, childcare centers, healthcare facilities, emergency shelters, workplaces, public events, retail outlets, or other business gathering locations.

(m) "Contact" means a person who has been in association with an infected person or animal or a contaminated environment in a manner that provides an opportunity to acquire the infective agent.

(n) "Date of application" means the date on which the program receives the signed application for AIDS drug assistance or for the tuberculosis patient care financial assistance.

(o) "Department" means "department" as defined in RSA 141-C:2, X.

(p) "Diversion" means the illegal use, tampering, substitution, or theft of drugs intended for patients by healthcare or non-healthcare personnel.

(q) "Documentation" means written authenticated evidence of a laboratory test result or immunization.

(r) "Dose of vaccine" means the amount of vaccine appropriate to develop or confer immunity as specified in the manufacturer's documentation accompanying the vaccine, also known as the package insert.

(s) "Emergency department visit" means an encounter where a person is treated, evaluated or both, in the emergency department of a hospital.

(t) "Exclude" means to prevent a person from being in a public or communal setting, such as preventing an employee from reporting to work and from performing any job responsibilities within the employee's place of employment.

(u) "Health care facility" means facilities required to be licensed pursuant to RSA 151:2, I and those facilities exempt from licensing pursuant to RSA 151:2, II.

(v) "Health care provider" means any physician or other person self-employed or representing or employed by a governmental or private agency, department, institution, clinic, laboratory, hospital, health maintenance organization, pharmacist, association or other entity who assesses or diagnoses the health status of any person or who treats any reportable disease or illness.

(w) "Health care setting" means any governmental or private agency, department, institution, clinic, laboratory, hospital, health maintenance organization, pharmacist, association, or other entity which assesses or diagnoses the health status of, or provides medical care or treatment to any person.

(x) "Hospital" means an institution which is engaged in providing to patients, under supervision of physicians, diagnostic and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment and care of injured, disabled, or sick persons, or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of such persons, and which is licensed in accordance with RSA 151 and He-P 802. The term "hospital" also includes psychiatric and substance abuse treatment hospitals.

(y) "Household" means one or more adults, with or without children, related by marriage or living together in the same residence.

(z) "Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) " means "human immunodeficiency virus" as defined in RSA 141-F:2, V.

(aa) "Institutional setting" means any group living situation such as in a nursing home, hospital, sheltered care facility, residential treatment and rehabilitation facility, correctional facility, transitional housing, long term care facility, or any group care facility.

(ab) "Invasive" means the organism causing the communicable disease is detected or isolated from a normally sterile site.

(ac) "Isolation" means "isolation" as defined in RSA 141-C:2, XII.

(ad) "Laboratory" means "laboratory" as defined in He-P 808, namely, "any building, place, or mobile laboratory van, for the biological, microbiological, serological, chemical, immunohematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological or other examination of materials derived from the human body for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of disease."

(ae) "Month" means 28 days, or 4 weeks.

(af) "Outbreak" means cases of illness or disease occurring in a community, region or specific population at a rate clearly in excess of what is normally expected.

(ag) "Quarantine" means "quarantine" as defined in RSA 141-C:2, XIII.

(ah) "Reportable disease" means a communicable disease, as defined in RSA 141-C:2, VI, required to be reported to the commissioner pursuant to RSA 141-C:7 and He-P 301.02.

(ai) "Restrict" means to limit activities of a person in a public or communal setting such as, limiting the activities of an employee such that the employee is able to report to work and perform certain job duties as long as that activity poses no threat to the public's health.

(aj) "Sterile site" means an area of the body where bacteria are not found growing, and which, when found, is indicative of infection. These areas of the body include, but are not limited to, cerebrospinal fluid, blood, joint fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, bone, and any other internal body sites and organs in which bacterial are not normally found.

(ak) "Suspect case" means any patient who a health care provider has reason to believe is or might be afflicted with a reportable disease such that diagnostic procedures, treatments, regimens, or preventive and/or control measures appropriate for the reportable disease are then instituted by the physician and/or the commissioner.

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N.H. Admin. Code § He-P 301.01

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Amended by Volume XXXVI Number 45, Filed November 10, 2016, Proposed by #12033, Effective 11/3/2016, Expires 11/3/2026.