Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 156 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Section 11-156-5 - Isolation
Current through February, 2024
(a) Any person who has been informed by the department, a private practitioner, or a hospital that he or she has been diagnosed or provisionally diagnosed with a communicable disease for which strict isolation is indicated in Exhibit C, shall remain in the person's residence or the room or ward of the hospital in which he or she is confined until the expiration of the prescribed period of isolation for the particular disease. All health care providers shall report immediately to the department any violation of such isolation directive.
(b) Any person who has been diagnosed or provisionally diagnosed with a communicable disease for which other than strict isolation is required in Exhibit C, shall remain isolated to the degree specified until the expiration of the prescribed period of isolation for that disease or until advised by the attending practitioner or by the department that the disease has reached a stage such that isolation is no longer necessary for the protection of the public.
(c) Any person who has been a contact of a person diagnosed or provisionally diagnosed with a communicable disease specified in Exhibit C shall comply with the restrictions specified in Exhibit C.
(d) People infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human "T" lymphotrophic virus 1 (HTLV-1), or hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and other bloodborne pathogens but without any other intercurrent infectious disease requiring isolation, do not require isolation because these infections are not easily transmitted by respiratory or enteric routes. Standard precautions are sufficient.
