New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
He - Department of Health and Human Services
Subtitle He-P - Former Division of Public Health Services
Chapter He-P 300 - DISEASES
Part He-P 301 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Section 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.