Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS › Chapter 98 - SPECIAL TREATMENT FACILITY › Section 11-98-02 - Definitions as used in this chapter

Current through June, 2024
"Administrator" or "executive director" mean the person who
				  has charge, care, control of or responsibility for the manage meat of the
				  facility and the program.
"Cardiopulmonary resuscitation" or "CPR" means an emergency
				  first aid procedure that consists of opening and maintaining a patient's
				  airway, providing artificial ventilation by means of rescue breathing, and
				  providing artificial circulation by means of external cardiac
				  compression.
"Department" means the department of health.
"Dietitian" means a person who:
(1) Is registered by the Commission on Dietetics
				  Registration; or
(2) Is eligible for such registration. "Director" means the
				  director of health.
"Facility" means the building or buildings which house the
				  program.
"Incident report" means a written record of any unusual
				  occurrence either resulting, or with the potential of, personal injury or
				  facility damage.
"License" means a license issued by the department
				  certifying the compliance with all existing Hawaii state laws and rules
				  relative to operation of a special treatment facility.
"Program" means the evaluation, counseling, prevention,
				  habilitation, rehabilitation or services directed toward achieving social,
				  emotional, mental and physical restoration of the residents.
"Program director" means the person designated by the
				  administrator who is responsible for all facets of the therapeutic program. The
				  program director may be the sane person as the administrator.
"Provisional license" means a license issued for a specified
				  period of time at the discretion of the director in order to allow additional
				  time for compliance with all licensing requirements.
"Resident" means an individual admitted to the program and
				  residing in the facility.
"Resident records" means the collection of medical, social
				  and therapeutic information about a given resident.
"Special treatment facility" means a facility which provides
				  a therapeutic residential program for care, diagnoses, treatment or
				  rehabilitation services for socially or emotionally distressed persons,
				  mentally ill persons, persons suffering from substance abuse, and
				  developmentally disabled persons.
"Staff means all personnel required to carry out all
				  maintenance, management, housekeeping, treatment programs and services, whether
				  employed, arranged for or contracted for, or full or part-time, of the
				  facility. Staff implies that the personnel is paid as opposed to persons who
				  volunteer their services.
"Tuberculin skin test" means an interdermal injection of
				  .0001 mg. (five tuberculin units) of purified protein derivative in 0.1 cc of
				  sterile diluent. If the size of any resulting palpable induration at
				  forty-eight hours or seventy-two hours after injection is greater than 10 mm in
				  its transverse diameter, the reaction to the skin test shall be considered
				  significant.
"Waiver" means an exemption for a period of one year or
				  less, from a specific rule which may be permitted a facility for a specified
				  period of time, at the discretion of the director.