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Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 14 - Evaluation of Candidates with Previous Licensure › Medical Records › Section 19a-14-41 - Professions involved

Current through July 10, 2024
Each person licensed or certified pursuant to the following
				  chapters and Acts shall maintain appropriate medical records of the assessment,
				  diagnosis, and course of treatment provided each patient, and such medical
				  records shall be kept for the period prescribed: chapters 334b, 370 thru 373,
				  375, 376, 378 thru 381, 383 thru 384, 388, 398, 399, and Public Acts 83-352 and
				  83-441.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 14 - Evaluation of Candidates with Previous Licensure › Medical Records › Section 19a-14-42 - Retention schedule

Current through July 10, 2024
Unless specified otherwise herein, all parts of a medical
				  record shall be retained for a period of seven (7) years from the last date of
				  treatment, or, upon the death of the patient, for three (3) years.
(a)
Pathology Slides, EEG and ECG
				Tracings
must each be kept for seven (7) years. If an ECG is taken and
				the results are unchanged from a previous ECG, then only the most recent
				results need be retained. Reports on each of these must be kept for the
				duration of the medical record.
(b)
Lab Reports and PKU Reports
must be kept for at least five (5)
				years. Only positive (abnormal) lab results need be retained.
(c)
X-Ray Films
must be kept for
				three (3) years.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 14 - Evaluation of Candidates with Previous Licensure › Medical Records › Section 19a-14-43 - Exceptions

Current through July 10, 2024
Nothing in these regulations shall prevent a practitioner
				  from retaining records longer than the prescribed minimum. When medical records
				  for a patient are retained by a health care facility or organization, the
				  individual practitioner shall not be required to maintain duplicate records and
				  the retention schedules of the facility or organization shall apply to the
				  records. If a claim of malpractice, unprofessional conduct, or negligence with
				  respect to a particular patient has been made, or if litigation has been
				  commenced, then all records for that patient must be retained until the matter
				  is resolved. A consulting health care provider need not retain records if they
				  are sent to the referring provider, who must retain them. If a patient requests
				  his records to be transferred to another provider who then becomes the primary
				  provider to the patient, then the first provider is no longer required to
				  retain that patient's records.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 14 - Evaluation of Candidates with Previous Licensure › Medical Records › Section 19a-14-44 - Discontinuance of practice

Current through July 10, 2024
Upon the death or retirement of a practitioner, it shall be
				  the responsibility of the practitioner or surviving responsible relative or
				  executor to inform patients. This must be done by placing a notice in a daily
				  local newspaper published in the community which is the prime locus of the
				  practice. This notice shall be no less than two columns wide and no less than
				  two inches in height. The notice shall appear twice, seven days apart. In
				  addition, an individual letter is to be sent to each patient seen within the
				  three years preceding the date of discontinuance of the practice. Medical
				  records of all patients must be retained for at least sixty days following both
				  the public and private notice to patients.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 14 - Evaluation of Candidates with Previous Licensure › Utilization of Controlled Substances by Health Care Professionals › Section 19a-14-50 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For the purposes of these regulations, "Doctor" means either
				  a physician licensed pursuant to Chapter 370 of the Connecticut General
				  Statutes or an Optometrist licensed pursuant to Chapter 380 of the Connecticut
				  General Statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 14 - Evaluation of Candidates with Previous Licensure › Utilization of Controlled Substances by Health Care Professionals › Section 19a-14-51 - Optician record retention

Current through July 10, 2024
For each client fitted with prescription eyeglasses or
				  prescribed contact lenses, a licensed optician shall keep a record. When
				  prescription items are dispensed by a registered apprentice optician, the
				  supervising licensed optician must verify the accuracy of all the data included
				  in the client record and indicate this on the record. A client record shall
				  contain the following:
(a)
Prescription Eyewear
Records shall include:
(1) Doctor's prescription and date, including
				name of prescribing doctor;
(2)
				Date of delivering said prescription, to include any duplication of existing
				lenses;
(3) Facial measurements, to
				include but not be limited to: interpupillary measures; frame size
				determinations, including eye size, bridge size, temple length;
(4) Name of frame provided; and
(5) Lens description to include: lens
				materials; placement of optical centers; lens tint; and, when applicable,
				multifocal type and placement of multifocal.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 14 - Evaluation of Candidates with Previous Licensure › Utilization of Controlled Substances by Health Care Professionals › Section 19a-14-55 - Utilization of controlled substances

Current through July 10, 2024
Those health care practitioners identified in Section
				  19a-14
				  of the Connecticut General Statutes and regulated by the Department of Health
				  Services who utilize controlled substances shall be subject to disciplinary
				  action, as set forth in Section
				  19a-17
				  of the Connecticut General Statutes, if they utilize or store drugs in a manner
				  which is not consistent with the public interest. In determining the public
				  interest, the following factors shall be considered:
(a) Maintenance of effective controls against
				diversion of controlled substances into other than duly authorized legitimate
				medical, scientific, or commercial channels;
(b) Compliance with all applicable state and
				federal laws and regulations concerning controlled substances;
(c) Any conviction of the practitioner under
				any state or federal law relating to controlled substances;
(d) Expiration, suspension, revocation,
				surrender or denial of the practitioner's federal controlled substance
				registration;
(e) Prescribing,
				distributing, administering or dispensing of controlled substances in schedules
				other than those specified in the practitioner's state or federal
				registration.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 17n - Conditions for Physician Participation in the Malpractice Insurance Purchase Program › Section 19a-17n-1 - Definitions (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11,
				  2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 17n - Conditions for Physician Participation in the Malpractice Insurance Purchase Program › Section 19a-17n-2 - Conditions for physician participation (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11,
				  2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 25 - Disclosure of Health Data › Section 19a-25-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in Sections 19a-25-1 through
				19a-25-4,
				inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Aggregate health data" means health data
			 that is obtained by combining like data in a manner that precludes the
			 identification of the individual or organization supplying the data or
			 described in the data.
(2)
			 "Anonymous medical case history" means the description of an individual's
			 illness in a manner that precludes the identification of the individual or
			 organization supplying the data or described in the data.
(3) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of
			 the Department of Public Health.
(4) "Department" means the Department of
			 Public Health.
(5) "Disclosure" or
			 "disclose" means the communication of health data to any individual or
			 organization outside the department.
(6) "Health data" means information, recorded
			 in any form or medium, that relates to the health status of individuals, the
			 determinants of health and health hazards, the availability of health resources
			 and services, or the use and cost of such resources and services.
(7) "Identifiable health data" means any
			 item, collection, or grouping of health data that makes the individual or
			 organization supplying it, or described in it, identifiable.
(8) "Individual" means a natural
			 person.
(9) "Local Director of
			 Health" means the city, town, borough, or district Director of Health or any
			 person legally authorized to act for the local director of health.
(10) "Medical or scientific research" means
			 the performance of activities relating to health data, including, but not
			 limited to:
(A) describing the group
			 characteristics of individuals or organizations;
(B) characterizing the determinants of health
			 and health hazards;
(C) analyzing
			 the inter-relationships among the various characteristics of individuals or
			 organizations;
(D) the preparation
			 and publication of reports describing these matters; and
(E) other related functions as determined by
			 the commissioner.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 25 - Disclosure of Health Data › Section 19a-25-2 - Disclosure of aggregate health data, anonymous medical case histories, and reports of the findings of studies of morbidity and mortality

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The department may, at the discretion of
			 the commissioner, publish, make available, and disseminate aggregate health
			 data, anonymous medical case histories, and reports of the findings of studies
			 of morbidity and mortality, provided such data, histories, and reports:
(1) Are prepared for the purpose of medical
			 and scientific research; and
(2) Do
			 not include identifiable health data.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 25 - Disclosure of Health Data › Section 19a-25-3 - Disclosure of identifiable health data

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The department
			 shall not disclose identifiable health data unless:
(1) The disclosure is to health care
			 providers in a medical emergency as necessary to protect the health, life, or
			 well-being of the person with a reportable disease or condition pursuant to
			 section
			 19a-215
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(2) The disclosure is to health care
			 providers, the local director of health, the department, another state or
			 public health agency, including those in other states and the federal
			 government, or other persons when deemed necessary by the department in its
			 sole discretion for disease prevention and control pursuant to section
			 19a-215
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes or for the purpose of reducing morbidity
			 and mortality from any cause or condition, except that every effort shall be
			 made to limit the disclosure of identifiable health data to the minimal amount
			 necessary to accomplish the public health purpose;
(3) The disclosure is to an individual,
			 organization, governmental entity in this or another state or to the federal
			 government, provided the department determines that:
(A) Based upon a written application and such
			 other information as required by the department to be submitted by the
			 requesting individual, organization or governmental entity the data will be
			 used solely for bona fide medical and scientific research;
(B) The disclosure of data to the requesting
			 individual, organization or governmental entity is required for the medical or
			 scientific research proposed;
(C)
			 The requesting individual, organization, or governmental entity has entered
			 into a written agreement satisfactory to the department agreeing to protect
			 such data in accordance with the requirements of this section and not permit
			 disclosure without prior approval of the department; and
(D) The requesting individual, organization
			 or governmental entity, upon request of the department or after a specified
			 date or event, returns or destroys all identifiable health data provided by the
			 department and copies thereof in any form.
(4) The disclosure is to a governmental
			 entity for the purpose of conducting an audit, evaluation, or investigation
			 required by law of the department and such governmental entity agrees not to
			 use such data for making any determination as to whom the health data
			 relates.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 25 - Disclosure of Health Data › Section 19a-25-4 - Use of health data for enforcement purposes

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
			 any provisions of sections
			 19a-25-1 to
			 19a-25-3,
			 inclusive of the Regulations of State Agencies, the department may utilize, in
			 any manner, health data including but not limited to aggregate health data,
			 identifiable health data, and studies of morbidity and mortality, in carrying
			 out and performing its statutory and regulatory responsibilities and to secure
			 compliance with or enforcement of any laws. Where such data is used in an
			 enforcement action brought by the department or any other state agency,
			 disclosure to parties to the action of such data shall be permitted only if
			 required by law and said parties may not further disclose such data except to a
			 tribunal, administrative agency or court with jurisdiction over the enforcement
			 action. Disclosure under this section does not constitute a waiver or release
			 of the confidentiality that protects such data.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32a - AIDS Research Education Fund › Section 19a-32a-1 - AIDS research grants

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any person,
			 municipality, public agency, private for profit or non-profit private agency
			 may apply for funds for AIDS-related research projects that contribute to:
(1) preventing human immunodeficiency virus
			 (HIV) infection, or
(2) improving
			 delivery of care to people with HIV/AIDS, or
(3) improving treatment of people with
			 HIV/AIDS, or
(4) understanding the
			 needs of people with HIV/AIDS, or
(5) evaluating prevention or treatment
			 programs or modalities.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32a - AIDS Research Education Fund › Section 19a-32a-2 - AIDS education and related community service

Current through July 10, 2024
Any person, municipality, public agency, or private for profit
				or non-profit private agency may apply for funds to provide educational
				interventions for populations affected by HIV/AIDS or to provide community
				services to persons suffering from HIV/AIDS and to the families and partners of
				such persons. Such services shall include but not necessarily be limited
				to:
(a) outreach,
(b) education,
(c) counseling,
(d) testing,
(e) case management,
(f) social services, and
(g) transportation.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32a - AIDS Research Education Fund › Section 19a-32a-3 - Promotion of the contribution system and the AIDS research education fund account

Current through July 10, 2024
Any person, municipality, public agency, private for profit or
				non-profit private agency may apply for funds to promote the income tax
				contribution system and the AIDS research education fund
				account.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32a - AIDS Research Education Fund › Section 19a-32a-4 - Grant application procedures

Current through July 10, 2024
The commissioner shall issue requests for proposals for funds
				pursuant to sections
				19a-32a-1
				through
				19a-32a-3
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies by November 15 of each year.
				These requests for proposals shall contain the criteria to be used in
				evaluating the proposals. Applications for funds shall be submitted in writing
				to the commissioner in the form prescribed by the
				commissioner.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32a - AIDS Research Education Fund › Section 19a-32a-5 - Review of applications for funding

Current through July 10, 2024
The commissioner shall evaluate all proposals for funds with
				the advice of an ad hoc review committee. This review committee shall include
				persons who are infected with HIV. It shall also include expertise the funding
				areas for which the request for proposal has been issued. No person on the
				review committee, or such person's family, shall be in a position to realize
				any financial gain from the awarding of such grant.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32b - Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund › Section 19a-32b-1 - Breast cancer research grants

Current through July 10, 2024
Any person, municipality, public agency, private for profit or
				non-profit private agency may apply for funds for breast cancer-related
				research projects that contribute to:
(1) preventing breast cancer, or
(2) improving delivery of care to people with
			 breast cancer, or
(3) improving
			 treatment of people with breast cancer, or
(4) understanding the needs of people with
			 breast cancer, or
(5) evaluating
			 prevention or treatment programs or modalities.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32b - Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund › Section 19a-32b-2 - Breast cancer education and related community service

Current through July 10, 2024
Any person, municipality, public agency, private for profit or
				non-profit private agency may apply for funds to provide educational
				interventions for populations affected by breast cancer or to provide community
				services to persons suffering from breast cancer and to the families of such
				persons. Such services shall include but not necessarily be limited to:
(a) outreach,
(b) education,
(c) counseling,
(d) testing,
(e) case management,
(f) social services, and
(g) transportation.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32b - Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund › Section 19a-32b-3 - Promotion of the contribution system and the breast cancer research and education fund account (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11,
				  2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32b - Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund › Section 19a-32b-4 - Grant application procedures (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11,
				  2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 32b - Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund › Section 19a-32b-5 - Review of applications for funding (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11,
				  2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A2 - List of reportable diseases and laboratory findings

Current through July 10, 2024
The commissioner shall issue a list of reportable diseases and
				laboratory findings within sixty days of the effective date of these
				regulations, on the next January 1, and annually thereafter. The list shall
				show it is the current list and shall specify its effective date. This list
				shall also include but not be limited to the reporting category of each
				disease, procedures for the reporting, and minimum investigation and control
				measures for each disease. Listed diseases are declared reportable diseases as
				of the effective date of approval by the commissioner.
(a) The commissioner in consultation with the
			 state epidemiologist will annually review the existing list and develop
			 recommendations for deletions or additions to the list.
(b) The state epidemiologist or other
			 commissioner designee shall convene and chair an advisory committee to review
			 the recommendations for any changes to the list prior to preparing the final
			 list for that year. This committee shall make recommendations to the
			 commissioner regarding the contents of the list.
(c) The commissioner shall review the
			 advisory committee's recommendations and make final deletions or additions to
			 the list to take effect January 1 of the next year. He will furnish copies of
			 the list before January 1 to the following:
(1) physicians licensed by the
			 department;
(2) directors of
			 clinical laboratories licensed, registered or approved by the
			 department;
(3) local directors of
			 health in Connecticut;
(4) health
			 care facilities licensed under Chapter 368v of the Connecticut General
			 Statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A3 - Persons required to report reportable diseases and laboratory findings

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Reportable Diseases.
(1) Every health care provider who treats or
			 examines any person who has or is suspected to have a reportable disease shall
			 report to the local director of health or other health authority within whose
			 jurisdiction the patient resides and to the department such information about
			 the affected person as described in section
			 19a-36
			 -A4 of these regulations.
(2) If
			 the case or suspected case of reportable disease is in a health care facility,
			 the person in charge of such facility shall ensure that reports are made to the
			 local director of health and the department in the manner specified in section
			 19a-36
			 -A4 of these regulations. The person in charge shall designate appropriate
			 infection control or record-keeping personnel for this purpose.
(3) If the case or suspected case of
			 reportable disease is not in a health care facility and if a health care
			 provider is not in attendance or is not known to have made a report within the
			 appropriate time specified in section
			 19a-36
			 -A4, such report of reportable diseases shall be made to the local director of
			 health or other health authority within whose jurisdiction the patient lives
			 and the department in the manner specified in section
			 19a-36
			 -A4 by:
(A) the administrator serving a
			 public or private school or day care center attended by any person affected or
			 apparently affected with such disease;
(B) the person in charge of any
			 camp;
(C) the master or any other
			 person in charge of any vessel lying within the jurisdiction of the
			 state;
(D) the master or any other
			 person in charge of any aircraft landing within the jurisdiction of the
			 state;
(E) the owner or person in
			 charge of any establishment producing, handling or processing dairy products,
			 other food or non-alcoholic beverages for sale or distribution;
(F) morticians and funeral
			 directors.
(4) Each
			 local director of health shall report or ensure reporting to the department
			 within 24 hours of each case or suspected case of a Category I reportable
			 disease and such additional information of which he has knowledge as described
			 in section
			 19a-36
			 -A4 of these regulations.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A4 - Content of report and reporting of reportable diseases and laboratory findings

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Reportable diseases.
(1) Each
			 report of a case or suspected case of reportable disease shall include the full
			 name and address of the person reporting and of the physician attending; the
			 diagnosed or suspected disease and date of onset; the full name, age,
			 race/ethnicity, sex and occupation of the affected individual and other facts
			 the department or local director of health requires for purposes of
			 surveillance, control and prevention of reportable diseases. The reports shall
			 be sent in envelopes marked "CONFIDENTIAL."
(2) Reports may be written or oral as
			 required by the category of disease as follows:
(A) Category I: diseases of high priority
			 because of need for timely public health action: reportable immediately by
			 telephone on day of recognition or suspicion of disease; on weekdays to both,
			 the local health director of the town in which the patient resides and the
			 department, on weekends to the department. A completed disease report form
			 provided by the department must also be mailed to both the local health
			 director and the department within 12 hours.
(B) Category II: diseases of significant
			 public health importance, usually requiring public health action: reportable by
			 mail to the local director health and the department within 12 hours of
			 recognition or suspicion on a form provided by the department.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A5 - Confidentiality of data

Current through July 10, 2024
All epidemiologic information which identifies an individual
				and which is gathered by the state or local health department in connection
				with the investigation of reported cases or suspected cases of disease or
				during the investigation of outbreaks of disease shall be kept in compliance
				with current confidentiality statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A6 - Investigation and control of reportable disease and outbreaks by the department

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The department,
			 in cooperation with the local director of health, in the investigation and
			 control of reportable disease shall make or cause to be made such investigation
			 as it deems necessary and shall secure all such data as may assist it in
			 establishing adequate control measures.
(b) In order to investigate and control any
			 apparent outbreak or unusual occurrence of reportable disease, the department
			 shall institute such special disease surveillance, follow-up reports and
			 control measures as it deems necessary.
(c) Individual medical information pertaining
			 to cases of reportable disease, persons affected by outbreaks of disease or
			 significant increases in the rate of nonsocomial infection shall be provided
			 when requested to an investigator who presents official identification of the
			 department or the local department of health. Such an investigator may be an
			 employee of the State or local health department.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A7 - Diseases not enumerated

Current through July 10, 2024
Diseases not specifically listed pursuant to section
				19a-36
				-A2 and presenting a special problem shall be reported and controlled in
				accordance with special instructions of the state department of health or, in
				the absence of such instructions, in accordance with orders and directions of
				the local director of health.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A9 - Control of diseases suspected of being reportable

Current through July 10, 2024
The local director of health, on receiving a report of a
				disease suspected of being reportable, shall confer with the physician or other
				person making such report, make further examination or investigation as he
				deems necessary and advise, recommend or establish such procedures as he may
				deem necessary to protect the public health until the character of the disease
				is definitely determined.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A10 - Presumably exposed persons may be examined and controlled

Current through July 10, 2024
The local director of health, when he has reasonable grounds to
				believe that a person or persons may have been exposed to a communicable
				disease, may control such persons as known contacts and may make such
				examinations and adopt such measures as he deems necessary and proper for the
				protection of the public health and the prevention of the spread of
				disease.
(1) The conviction of any
			 person for any offense involving sexual promiscuity or illicit sex relations
			 shall constitute reasonable grounds for the local director of health to believe
			 that that person may have been exposed to a communicable disease and shall
			 justify the examination and such other measures of control of that individual
			 as are deemed necessary and proper by the state department of health for the
			 protection of public health and the prevention of spreading of
			 disease.
(2) The warden or other
			 person in charge of any prison or jail in the state shall notify the prison or
			 jail physician, in writing, within twenty-four hours upon the receipt of a
			 prisoner who may have been exposed to a communicable disease and of every
			 prisoner who has been convicted of any offense involving sexual promiscuity or
			 illicit sex relations. A routine medical examination shall be made on every
			 prisoner whose conviction involves sexual promiscuity or illicit sex relations.
			 Such routine medical examination shall include the taking of a blood specimen
			 for serological test for syphilis and the taking of three smears for gonococci
			 taken not less than twenty-four hours apart and, if the prisoner is found to be
			 infected, treatment shall be instituted as necessary. The tests referred to
			 above shall be performed in the bureau of laboratories of the state department
			 of health or in a laboratory specifically approved for these purposes by the
			 state department of health, and they shall be performed in a manner that meets
			 the approval of the state department of health. Upon the expiration of a
			 sentence, any person having syphilis or gonococcal infection, whether in an
			 infectious or non-infectious stage, and in need of further followup treatment
			 shall be reported to the state department of health by the attending physician,
			 who shall give the name, sex, age and marital status and a record of the
			 treatment given while such person was imprisoned.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A11 - Control of carriers of the infectious agent of communicable disease

Current through July 10, 2024
Carriers, whether transient, convalescent or chronic, of the
				infectious agent of any communicable disease shall be maintained under
				observation until repeated laboratory examinations of appropriate specimens
				show the absence of the infectious agent. Examination of all such specimens
				shall be in conformity with subsection (f) of section
				19a-36
				-A8.
(a) Any local director of health
			 or physician who discovers any carrier of an infectious agent shall report the
			 fact to the state department of health giving the full name, age, sex,
			 occupation and address of such carrier. The state department of health shall,
			 upon receipt of such report, notify the local director of health of the town,
			 city or borough wherein the carrier resides. The local director of health
			 concerned shall then communicate the fact to the carrier himself, or his
			 guardian, giving specific instructions regarding the precautions necessary to
			 protect others from infection.
(b)
			 Any privy or latrine used by an enteric disease carrier shall be so constructed
			 as to exclude flies and to meet the approval of the local director of health.
			 The disinfection and disposal of its contents shall be in accordance with
			 instructions given by the local director of health.
(c) A carrier of an infectious agent shall
			 not engage in any occupation involving the handling of any food or beverage
			 intended for the use of others.
(d)
			 Enteric disease carriers shall not work on any public water supply or
			 watershed.
(e) A carrier who
			 changes his residence shall notify the local director of health of the town,
			 city or borough in which he has been residing of the date of his departure, his
			 destination and his new address. The local director of health shall immediately
			 forward this information to the state department of health.
(f) The local director of health shall visit
			 each carrier within his jurisdiction at least once every three months and shall
			 render quarterly reports concerning each such carrier to the state department
			 of health upon forms prescribed for the purpose.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A12 - Enteric disease carriers

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A chronic
			 carrier of enteric disease shall be defined as a person who persists in
			 excreting enteric pathogenic organisms for twelve months or more after onset of
			 illness or probable date of infection or one who, though he may never have been
			 known to have the disease, has been shown to harbor the infectious agent in his
			 body.
(b) All specimens for the
			 release of enteric carriers from supervision shall be collected at least ten
			 days after the cessation of any antibiotic therapy or any therapy directed at
			 the disease.
(c) All specimens for
			 the release of enteric carriers from supervision shall be examined in
			 conformity with subsection (f) of section
			 19a-36
			 -A8.
(d) Chronic carriers of the
			 organisms causing typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever shall not be released
			 from supervision until six successive specimens of urine and six successive
			 specimens of feces, the last two of which shall be validated by collection of
			 the specimen in a hospital or otherwise under direct supervision, have been
			 found negative. Specimens for such examination shall be so collected that a
			 time interval of not less than one month shall elapse between successive
			 specimens of urine and between successive specimens of feces. The final two
			 specimens of feces to be examined may be validated by the giving of lycopodium
			 or a negative bile culture may be substituted for such validation.
(e) A chronic carrier of enteric disease
			 excreting the organism in discharges other than the feces or urine shall not be
			 released from supervision until negative cultures as outlined by the state
			 department of health for the specific case have been obtained.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A13 - Control of tuberculosis

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) When a licensed
			 physician or hospital superintendent has reported a case of tuberculosis and
			 has agreed to assume the responsibility for the proper instruction of the
			 patient and the taking of measures necessary for the protection of others, the
			 local director of health need not take action other than that prescribed by
			 sections
			 19a-262
			 to
			 19a-264,
			 inclusive, of the general statutes.
(b) When such patient, while in an infectious
			 state, neglects or refuses to follow the prescribed instructions or
			 discontinues treatment, the physician or superintendent shall immediately
			 notify the local director of health.
(c) When a physician or hospital
			 superintendent has declined to assume such responsibility, the local director
			 of health shall supply the affected person with printed instructions and take
			 such other action as may be necessary and proper for the protection of the
			 public health.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A14 - Control of refractory persons affected with tuberculosis

Current through July 10, 2024
When it comes to the attention of a local director of health
				that a person is affected with tuberculosis and is a menace to the public
				health or is likely to jeopardize the health of any person or persons in or on
				the premises occupied or frequented by the affected person, he shall
				immediately investigate and shall take proper measures to prevent the spread of
				such disease for the protection of the public health and, if necessary, may
				cause the removal of such person to an isolation hospital or other proper
				place, there to be received and kept until he is no longer a menace to the
				public health.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A15 - Control of venereal disease

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) When a licensed
			 physician or hospital superintendent has reported a case of gonorrhea or
			 syphilis and has agreed in writing to assume the responsibility for the proper
			 instruction of the patient, the local director of health shall supply such
			 physician or hospital superintendent with printed instructions for such
			 patient.
(b) When such patient,
			 while in an infectious state, neglects or refuses to follow the prescribed
			 instructions or discontinues treatment, the physician or superintendent shall
			 immediately notify the local director of health.
(c) In investigating cases or suspected cases
			 of the above-mentioned diseases, the local director of health shall treat all
			 information as confidential, but such course shall not preclude the making of
			 reports to the state department of health.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A16 - Control of refractory persons affected with venereal diseases

Current through July 10, 2024
When it comes to the attention of a local director of health
				that a person is affected with or presumably affected with gonorrhea or
				syphilis in any form and is likely to jeopardize the health of any person or
				persons in or on the premises occupied or frequented by the affected person,
				the local director of health shall immediately investigate and shall take
				proper measures to prevent the spread of such disease for the protection of the
				public health, and he shall direct such person to report regularly for
				treatment to a licensed physician or to a public clinic, there to be treated
				until such person is free from infectious discharges. If such person, in the
				opinion of the local director of health, is a menace to the public health, the
				local director of health shall order the removal of such person to an isolation
				hospital or other proper place, there to be received and kept until he no
				longer is a menace to the public health; or the local director of health shall
				adopt such other measures as he may deem necessary to protect the public
				health.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A17 - Observance of quarantine and instructions

Current through July 10, 2024
Every person who is affected with a communicable disease, who
				is a carrier or who is suspected of having come in contact, directly or
				indirectly, with a case of communicable disease shall strictly observe and
				comply with all orders, quarantine regulations and restrictions given or
				imposed by the local health authority or the state commissioner of health in
				conformity with law.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A18 - Control of quarantine area

Current through July 10, 2024
No person other than the attending physicians and authorized
				attendants shall enter or leave, and no one except the local director of health
				or his representative shall permit any other person to enter or leave, any
				room, apartment or premises quarantined for a communicable disease, nor shall
				any person needlessly expose a child or other person to a communicable disease.
				No person shall remove any article from a quarantined area without permission
				of the local director of health. The local director of health shall report
				immediately to the state commissioner of health, by telegraph or telephone, the
				name, address, probable destination and route of departure of any person who
				was under control for a reportable disease and who has left his jurisdiction
				without his consent.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A19 - Duty of local director of health to quarantined persons in need

Current through July 10, 2024
When a person under quarantine is, in the opinion of the local
				director of health, unable to obtain medical care, food or other actual
				necessities, the local director of health shall report his findings to the
				proper town, city or borough authority. If such town, city or borough authority
				fails to supply at once the needed care, the local director of health shall
				supply such quarantined person with medical attention, food or other actual
				necessities, and the expense incurred in performing such duty shall constitute
				a legal expense of the local director of health and shall be paid according to
				state statute.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A20 - Preventing spread of disease by common carriers

Current through July 10, 2024
In the event of the epidemic prevalence of a communicable
				disease, when a written declaration to that effect has been made by the state
				commissioner of health, any person, firm or corporation operating any common
				carrier within the state, or in the waters thereof, shall comply strictly with
				any order issued by the state commissioner of health for the purpose of
				preventing the introduction into the state, or the transmission from one point
				to another within the state, of any person or persons, animals, insects or
				materials likely to convey the disease.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A21 - Food and food handlers restricted

Current through July 10, 2024
When a case of any of the reportable diseases listed pursuant
				to section
				19a-36
				-A2 occurs on the premises where milk or food is produced, kept, handled or
				sold, the local director of health shall institute such measures as he deems
				necessary to prevent the spread of such disease and to protect such foods from
				being contaminated; and he shall require all uninfected persons who reside in
				an apartment or dwelling where any such disease exists, and who handle milk or
				food elsewhere, to remain away from such abode as long as the disease is
				present.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A22 - Use of milk, food and water containers restricted

Current through July 10, 2024
The local director of health in charge of a case or a suspected
				case of a communicable disease that may be conveyed by milk, food or water
				shall forbid the return of any container to the distributor when such container
				has been within a quarantined area, or has been handled or presumably handled
				by anyone in attendance upon a person affected or believed to be affected with
				such disease, until such empty container has been sterilized by boiling water
				or by live steam, or in any other manner satisfactory to the local director of
				health.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A23 - Regulation of traffic in psittacine birds

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) As used in
			 this section: "Psittacine birds" means, unless otherwise specified, all birds
			 commonly known as parrots, macaws, cockatoos, lovebirds, parakeets, cockatiels
			 and all birds of the order psittaciformes.
(b) Any person or entity that imports,
			 purchases, breeds, sells, exchanges, barters, gives away or otherwise deals in
			 psittacine birds shall keep records of such transactions embodying information
			 required by the Department of Public Health. For each bird, records shall
			 include:
(1) The date of bird's arrival on
			 premises;
(2) A description of the
			 bird (i.e.: species, common name, variety);
(3) The unique identifier consistent with the
			 leg band or microchip;
(4) The
			 name, address and phone number of the prior owner of the bird; and
(5) The date and a description of the final
			 disposition. If the final disposition is a change of ownership, the records
			 shall also include name, address and phone number of the person accepting
			 ownership of the bird.
Such records shall be open for inspection by the local director
				of health, a representative of the Department of Public Health, a local animal
				control officer, or a representative of the state Department of Agriculture.
				The records shall be kept for the period of time commencing on the date of the
				bird's arrival on the premises and continuing until two years following the
				date of final disposition of such bird.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A25 - Laboratories to register

Current through July 10, 2024
Any person, firm or corporation, or the duly authorized agent
				thereof, operating or maintaining a laboratory in which there is made any
				examination, determination or test specified in section
				19a-36
				-A26, shall register such laboratory with the state department of health before
				any such examination, determination or test is made. The carrying on of any of
				the examinations, determinations or tests specified in said section shall be
				deemed the operating or maintaining of a laboratory.