Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19 - Public Health and Safety › 13-D - The Public Health Code of the State of Connecticut › Chapter IV - Hospitals, Child Day Care Centers, Other Institutions and Children's General Hospitals › Section 19-13-D43a - Licensure of infirmaries operated by educational institutions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
(1) "Accident - Incident" means an
				occurrence, injury or unusual event which may result in serious injury or death
				to a patient, or which interrupts services provided by the infirmary;
(2) "Academic year" means the school year as
				officially designated by the educational institution;
(3) "Applicant" means any individual, firm,
				partnership, corporation or association applying for or requesting a license or
				renewal of a license;
(4)
				"Alterations" means minor remodeling or revision which does not substantially
				change the physical plant of the infirmary.
(5) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				the Connecticut Department of Public Health or his designated
				representative;
(6) "Construction"
				means the act or process of building;
(7) "Department" means Connecticut Department
				of Public Health or any duly authorized representative thereof;
(8) "Educational institution" means a place
				of learning, that is, a school, college, or university;
(9) "Employee" means a person who is employed
				by an educational institution in return for financial or other
				compensation;
(10) "Expansion"
				means an increase in the physical size or dimensions of the
				infirmary;
(11) "Facility" means
				the infirmary, as defined in this subsection;
(12) "Faculty" means the teachers and
				instructors employed by an educational institution;
(13) "Goals" means attainable ends towards
				which clinical care is directed and focused;
(14) "Governing authority" means the
				individuals with the ultimate authority and responsibility for the overall
				operation of the educational institution and the services which it
				provides;
(15) "Infirmary" means a
				health care facility operated by an educational institution, which provides
				evaluation and treatment services for routine health problems and provides
				overnight accommodations of limited duration for students, faculty and
				employees of such institution who are receiving short term care and treatment
				for noncritical illnesses, are recovering from surgery, or require observation,
				and who do not require the skills and equipment of an acute care
				hospital;
(16) "Institutional
				Outbreak" means the occurrence in an institution of cases of illness over a
				specific time period clearly in excess of normal expectancy. The number of
				cases indicating an institutional outbreak may vary according to the etiology,
				size and type of population exposed, experience with the disease, and time and
				place of occurrence. An outbreak of disease is an epidemic;
(17) "License" means the form of permission
				issued by the Department of Public Health that authorizes an educational
				institution to operate an infirmary;
(18) "Licensee" means the educational
				institution licensed to operate an infirmary;
(19) "Licensed Capacity" means the maximum
				number of patients allowed under the school's license to be admitted to the
				infirmary for overnight care at any one time;
(20) "Licensed Nursing Personnel" means
				registered nurses and practical nurses licensed in Connecticut in accordance
				with Chapter 378, of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(21) "Local Director of Health" means and
				includes town, city, borough, district, and local director of health, local
				superintendent and commissioner of health, and any officer or person having the
				usual powers and duties of a local director of health;
(22) "Medication" means any medicinal
				preparation including controlled substances, as defined in section
				21a-240
				of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(23) "Nursing Care Plan" means a written plan
				documenting a patient's nursing needs based on the use of the nursing process
				and includes a written plan to meet these needs;
(24) "On Call" means the continuous
				availability either in person or by telephone or by telecommunication to
				personnel who are on duty in the infirmary;
(25) "On Duty" means physically present in
				the infirmary, awake and alert and able to respond to patient care
				needs;
(26) "Patient Care Plan"
				means an overall, interdisciplinary written plan documenting an evaluation of
				the patients needs, short and long term goals, care and treatment;
(27) "Patient Rights" means those rights to
				which all patients are entitled by state and federal law;
(28) "Physician" means a doctor of medicine
				or osteopathy licensed to practice medicine in Connecticut in accordance with
				Chapters 370 or 371, of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(29) "Practical Nurse" means a person with a
				license to practice as a practical nurse in Connecticut in accordance with
				Chapter 378, of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(30) "Quality Care" means that patients
				receive clinically competent care which meets professional standards, are
				supported and directed in a planned pattern toward mutually defined outcomes,
				obtain coordinated service through each level of care, and are taught
				self-management and preventive health measures with respect to age and level of
				understanding;
(31) "Registered
				Nurse" means a person with a license to practice as a professional nurse in
				Connecticut in accordance with Chapter 378, of the Connecticut General
				Statutes;
(32) "Renovation" means a
				major remodeling or revision which substantially changes the physical plant of
				the infirmary;
(33) "Reportable
				Disease" means a communicable disease, disease outbreak or other condition of
				public health significance required to be reported to the department and the
				local director of health;
(34)
				"Statement of Ownership and Operations" means a written statement as to the
				legal owners of the premises and legal entity that operates the facility to be
				licensed;
(35) "Student" means an
				individual who is enrolled to attend an educational institution;
(36) "Supervision" means the direct
				inspection and on site observation of the functions and activities of others in
				the performance of their duties and responsibilities;
(37) "Vector" means an organism which carries
				pathogens from one host to another.