Arizona Administrative Code › Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICES › Chapter 6 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICE - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND INFESTATIONS › Article 12 - TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL › Section R9-6-1203 - Tuberculosis Control in Correctional Facilities

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A. An administrator of a correctional
				facility shall ensure that:
1. Each new
				inmate in the correctional facility undergoes a symptom screening for
				tuberculosis while processing into the correctional facility;
2. An inmate in whom symptoms suggestive of
				tuberculosis are detected during screening:
a.
				Is immediately:
i. Placed in airborne
				infection isolation, or
ii.
				Required to wear a surgical mask and retained in an environment where exposure
				to the general inmate population is minimal and the inmate can be observed at
				all times to be wearing the mask;
b. If not immediately placed in airborne
				infection isolation, is within 24 hours after screening:
i. Given a medical evaluation for active
				tuberculosis, or
ii. Transported to
				a health care institution to be placed in airborne infection isolation;
				and
c. Is given a
				medical evaluation for active tuberculosis before being released from airborne
				infection isolation or permitted to stop wearing a surgical mask and released
				from the environment described in subsection (A)(2)(a)(ii).
3. Except as provided in
				subsection (A)(5), each new inmate who does not have a documented history of a
				positive result from an approved test for tuberculosis or who has not received
				an approved test for tuberculosis within the previous 12 months is given an
				approved test for tuberculosis within seven days after processing into the
				correctional facility;
4. Except as
				provided in subsection (A)(8), each new inmate who has a positive result from
				an approved test for tuberculosis or who has a documented history of a positive
				result from an approved test for tuberculosis is given a chest x-ray and a
				medical evaluation, within 14 days after processing into the correctional
				facility, to determine whether the inmate has active tuberculosis;
;
5. Each new inmate who
				is HIV-positive, in addition to receiving an approved test for tuberculosis, is
				given a chest x-ray and a medical evaluation within seven days after processing
				into the correctional facility, to determine whether the inmate has active
				tuberculosis;
6. Each inmate who had a negative result from an
				approved test for tuberculosis when tested according to subsection (A)(3)
				during processing has a repeat approved test for tuberculosis after 12 months
				of incarceration and every 12 months thereafter during the inmate's term of
				incarceration;
7. Each inmate who
				has a positive result on a repeat approved test for tuberculosis after a
				negative result on a previous approved test for tuberculosis is given a chest
				x-ray and a medical evaluation within 14 days after the date of the positive
				result on the repeat approved test to determine whether the inmate has active
				tuberculosis;
8. An inmate is not
				required to have another chest x-ray unless the inmate has symptoms suggestive
				of tuberculosis if the inmate has had a documented negative chest
				x-ray;
9. Each inmate with active tuberculosis is:
a. Provided medical treatment that meets
				accepted standards of medical practice, and
b. Placed in airborne infection isolation
				until no longer infectious; and
10. All applicable
				requirements in 9 A.A.C. 6, Articles 2 and 3 are complied with.