New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 27 - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Part 12 - CERTIFICATION OF S-T SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (STEMI) RECEIVING AND REFERRING CENTERS
Section 7.27.12.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the following words and phrases used in these regulations shall have the meanings indicated.
A. "Accredited" means a process of validation by an organization recognized by the department.
B. "Acute care hospital" means a facility with an emergency department and physicians(s) available, licensed under state statute, or a comparable facility operated by the federal government or located and licensed by another state.
C. "Bureau" means the EMS bureau of the epidemiology and response division of the department of health.
D. "Certified" means a formal determination by the department that an acute care facility has met the standards necessary for national accreditation, including functioning in a STEMI and other heart attack care system, and capable of providing special resources and care as a STEMI receiving or STEMI referring center.
E. "Department" means the New Mexico department of health.
F. "Recognized" means written acknowledgement by the bureau.
G. "Registry" means a bureau approved database which documents and integrates medical and system information related to the provision of STEMI and other heart attack care by acute care hospital facilities.
H. "STEMI" means ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, a common type of heart attack caused by a blocked artery that supplies blood to the heart muscle.
