HAR §11-156.1-2. Definitions

As used in this chapter: "Case" means a person or deceased person infected with a particular infectious agent or having a communicable disease diagnosed by a health care provider. "CLIA-waived test" means a test system approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for waiver under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988. "Clinical materials" means material associated or suspected to be associated with a reportable condition including, but not limited to, isolates, blood, serum, stool, urine, tissue, respiratory secretions, swab, or other body fluid. "Communicable disease" means an illness which arises through transmission of a specific infectious agent or its toxic products from an infected person, animal, or inanimate reservoir to a susceptible host. "Contact" means a person who may have been exposed to a case, suspected case, or the same environmental or other source of exposure as a case or suspected case in a manner that could place the person at risk of acquiring the infection based on known or suspected modes of transmission. "Dangerous disease" has the same meaning as defined in section 325-20, HRS. "Department" means the department of health. "Director" means the director of health or the director's authorized agent. "Disease control measure" means an action to prevent or reduce the threat of disease transmission from a person or animal known or suspected to be infected or a contaminated environment, including but not limited to: (1) Counseling or education; (2) Immunization; (3) Preventative therapy; 156.1-4 3625 §11-156.1-2 (4) Prophylaxis; (5) Environmental sanitation; (6) Closure of establishment; (7) Exclusion from school, work, or other congregate setting; (8) Restriction of activities; (9) Isolation or barrier precautions; (10) Quarantine; or (11) Other measure to prevent infection. "Health care facility" means any program, institution, place, building, or agency, or portion thereof, private or public, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated, or designed to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, nursing, rehabilitative, or preventive care to any person or persons. The term includes, but is not limited to, health care facilities and health care services commonly referred to as hospitals, facilities that provide inpatient medical care and other related services for surgery or acute medical conditions or injuries (usually for a short-term illness or condition), extended care and rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, hospices for the terminally ill that require licensure or certification by the department, kidney disease treatment centers including freestanding hemodialysis units, outpatient clinics, organized ambulatory health care facilities, emergency care facilities and centers, home health agencies, and others providing similarly organized services regardless of nomenclature. "Health care professional" or "health care provider" means an individual who is a direct provider of health care (including but not limited to a physician, osteopathic physician, naturopathic physician, dentist, nurse, podiatrist, optometrist, physician assistant, chiropractor, midwife, or pharmacist) in that the individual's primary current activity is the provision of health care to individuals or the administration of a health care facility and is licensed or certified in accordance with state law. 156.1-5 3625