Code of Maine Rules
10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
144 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - GENERAL
Chapter 709 - CRITICAL CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS SCREENING
Section 144-709-2.0 - DEFINITIONS

2.1 "Birthing center" means any non-hospital health facility, institution or place designed to accommodate mothers giving birth away from home at the culmination of normal, uncomplicated pregnancies.

2.2 "Birth hospital" means any hospital licensed under the provisions of Title 22 of the Maine Revised Statues which provides health care services to pregnant women and those who give birth.

2.3 "CCHD" means Critical Congenital Heart Defects, also known as Critical Congenital Heart Disease, including, but not limited to seven specific heart defects: hypoplastic left heart syndrome, pulmonary atresia (with intact septum), tetralogy of fallot, total anomalous pulmonary venous return, transposition of the great arteries, tricuspid atresia and truncus arteriosus that may be detectable by pulse oximetry screening.

2.4 "Department" means the Maine Department of Health and Human Services including the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC).The Maine CDC Birth Defects Program performs the functions related to these rules.

2.5 "ECHO" means echocardiogram, a non-invasive diagnostic method using ultrasound to visualize heart structures

2.6 "Health care provider" means a physician, advanced practice nurse or other licensed professional acting as primary health care provider or specialty health care provider caring for an infant or child with a critical congenital heart defect included in the Maine CDC Birth Defects Program.

2.7 "Part C Agency" is an agency that meets the definition in the I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).In Maine, Child Development Services (CDS) under the supervision of the Maine Department of Education. is the Part C Agency providing both Early Intervention (birth - two years) and Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE for ages three - five years)

2.8 "Principal birthing attendant" means any adult who acts as the principal attendant during a delivery that occurs at a site other than a hospital or birthing center. This may be a midwife or other adult attendant.