New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 4 - DISEASE CONTROL (EPIDEMIOLOGY)
Part 3 - CONTROL OF DISEASE AND CONDITIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SIGNIFICANCE
Section 7.4.3.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
As used in these provisions, the following terms shall have the meaning given to them, except where the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "Acute care hospital" means a hospital providing emergency services, in-patient medical and nursing care for acute illness, injury, surgery or obstetrics; ancillary services such as pharmacy, clinical laboratory, radiology, and dietary are required for acute care hospitals.
B. "Cancer" means all malignant neoplasms and in situ neoplasms and all intracranial neoplasms, regardless of the tissue of origin.
C. "Carrier" means an infected person or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent without clinical symptoms and that serves as a potential source of infection for humans.
D. "Condition of public health significance" means a condition dangerous to public health or safety.
E. "Designee" means an agency or instititution designated by the department of health to receive reports of notifiable conditions on its behalf for the purpose of public health surveillance.
F. "Disease" means an illness, including those caused by infectious agents or their toxic products which may be transmitted to a susceptible host.
G. "Division" means the epidemiology and response division of the department of health, P.O. Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM 87502-6110.
H. "Health care professional" means any licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy, nurse, physician's assistant, midwife, veterinarian or other licensed health care provider .
I. "Isolation, detention or quarantine" means the complete separation or partial restriction of movement and association in such manner and for such period to prevent the direct and indirect transmission of the infectious agent.
J. "Laboratory" means the scientific laboratory division of the department of health or any other laboratory which performs diagnostic tests on specimens obtained from New Mexico sources for diseases and conditions covered by these rules.
K. "Notifiable condition" means a disease or condition of public health significance required by statute or these rules to be reported to the department of health.
L. "Other person" includes but is not limited to: laboratory staff; an official in charge of any health facility; hospital records or administrative personnel; the principal or person in charge of any private or public school, or child care center; teachers and school nurses; and a householder or any other person, in the absence of a health care professional having direct knowledge of a disease or condition of public health significance.
M. "Regional or local public health office" means a public health office designated by the public health division of the department of health.
N. "Report" means a notification to the department of health pursuant to these rules.
O. "Specimen" means any material derived from humans or animals for examination for diagnosis, prevention or treatment of any disease or condition of public health significance.
