New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 18 - NEWBORN BIOCHEMICAL SCREENING PROGRAM
Subchapter 1 - NEWBORN BIOCHEMICAL SCREENING
Section 8:18-1.2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Availability of Supplemental Newborn Screening" or "Acknowledgment" means the second page of the Notice.

"Biohazardous specimen" means a specimen collected from an infant who may have, or whose mother may have, an infectious disease agent transmissible by blood contact, as determined by the infectious disease officer of the responsible institution.

"Birth attendant" means the physician, nurse-midwife or other person who attends a non-hospital birth and who is required to register the birth of a child under 26:8-30 or 26:8-31.

"Chief executive officer" means the person who acts as the administrative officer of the institution and who is responsible to the governing body for overall management of the hospital or agency providing birthing services.

"Department" means the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services.

"Follow-up Program" means Newborn Screening and Genetic Services, Special Child Health and Early Intervention Services, Division of Family Health Services, Public Health Services Branch, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 364, Trenton, NJ 08625-0364.

"Health care facility" means a facility licensed pursuant to Title 26 of the Revised Statutes that provides health care services to newborn infants, and includes responsible institutions.

"Health care professional" means a health care professional licensed pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes that provides health care services to newborn infants.

"Health care provider" means a health care professional or a health care facility.

"Home health agency" means a facility which is licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to provide preventive, rehabilitative, and therapeutic services to the patients in the patient's home or place of residence.

"Newborn" means an infant who is zero to 28 days old.

"Notice of Availability of Supplemental Newborn Screening" or "Notice" means the document promulgated by the Department pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:2-111.1b(1), that explains the availability of supplemental newborn screening.

1. The Notice and Acknowledgment are available on the website of the Follow-up Program at http://nj.gov/health/fhs/prenatal/screening.shtml and the Department's forms page at http://nj.gov/health/forms, form numbers SCH-7 for the English version and SCH-7A for the Spanish version, as amended and supplemented.

2. The Notice and Acknowledgment are available to health care providers who do not have access to the Follow-up Program website or otherwise are unable to download and print the Notice and Acknowledgment, upon request to the Follow-up Program, which shall mail a single Notice and Acknowledgment form to the requesting health care provider.

"Parent" means the infant's parent or legal guardian or other person legally responsible for the health and well-being of the infant.

"Public health officer" means the officer or commissioner of health of a city, town, county or region.

"Qualified laboratory" means that term as defined at 26:2-111.1.

"Repeat specimen" means an additional satisfactory specimen submitted to the testing laboratory.

"Responsible institution" means the hospital or center providing birthing services.

"Responsible physician" means the physician or other health care professional providing care at the time of specimen collection whose name is placed on the Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) specimen collection form.

"Satisfactory specimen" means a specimen received by the testing laboratory in an acceptable condition for testing.

"Serum specimen" means a specimen of serum collected according to established criteria of the laboratory performing the assay; serum specimens are sent to the Department testing laboratory.

"Specimen" means a dried blood filter specimen collected on an approved specimen collection form.

"Specimen collection form" means the current specimen collection form as provided by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

"Supplemental newborn screening" means testing performed by qualified laboratories for disorders in infants for which testing is not required pursuant to 26:2-110 et seq. and this chapter.

"Testing laboratory" means the Inborn Errors of Metabolism Laboratory, Division of Public Health and Environmental Laboratories, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 371, Trenton, NJ 08625-0371.

"Unsatisfactory specimen" means a specimen which is received by the testing laboratory in a condition unacceptable for testing.