New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 18 - NEWBORN BIOCHEMICAL SCREENING PROGRAM › Subchapter 1 - NEWBORN BIOCHEMICAL SCREENING › Section 8:18-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Availability of
				  Supplemental Newborn Screening" or "Acknowledgment" means the second page of the
				  Notice.
"Biohazardous specimen" means a specimen collected from an infant
				  who may have, or whose mother may have, an infectious disease agent transmissible by
				  blood contact, as determined by the infectious disease officer of the responsible
				  institution.
"Birth attendant" means the physician, nurse-midwife or other
				  person who attends a non-hospital birth and who is required to register the birth of
				  a child under 26:8-30 or
				  26:8-31.
"Chief executive officer" means the person who acts as the
				  administrative officer of the institution and who is responsible to the governing
				  body for overall management of the hospital or agency providing birthing
				  services.
"Department" means the New Jersey State Department of Health and
				  Senior Services.
"Follow-up Program" means Newborn Screening and Genetic Services,
				  Special Child Health and Early Intervention Services, Division of Family Health
				  Services, Public Health Services Branch, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
				  Services, PO Box 364, Trenton, NJ 08625-0364.
"Health care facility" means a facility licensed pursuant to Title
				  26 of the Revised Statutes that provides health care services to newborn infants,
				  and includes responsible institutions.
"Health care professional" means a health care professional
				  licensed pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes that provides health care
				  services to newborn infants.
"Health care provider" means a health care professional or a
				  health care facility.
"Home health agency" means a facility which is licensed by the New
				  Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to provide preventive,
				  rehabilitative, and therapeutic services to the patients in the patient's home or
				  place of residence.
"Newborn" means an infant who is zero to 28 days old.
"Notice of Availability of Supplemental Newborn Screening" or
				  "Notice" means the document promulgated by the Department pursuant to N.J.S.A.
				  26:2-111.1b(1), that explains the availability of supplemental newborn
				  screening.
1. The Notice and Acknowledgment are available on the website of
				  the Follow-up Program at
http://nj.gov/health/fhs/prenatal/screening.shtml
and the Department's forms page at
http://nj.gov/health/forms
, form numbers
				  SCH-7 for the English version and SCH-7A for the Spanish version, as amended and
				  supplemented.
2. The Notice and Acknowledgment are available to health care
				  providers who do not have access to the Follow-up Program website or otherwise are
				  unable to download and print the Notice and Acknowledgment, upon request to the
				  Follow-up Program, which shall mail a single Notice and Acknowledgment form to the
				  requesting health care provider.
"Parent" means the infant's parent or legal guardian or other
				  person legally responsible for the health and well-being of the infant.
"Public health officer" means the officer or commissioner of
				  health of a city, town, county or region.
"Qualified laboratory" means that term as defined at
				  26:2-111.1.
"Repeat specimen" means an additional satisfactory specimen
				  submitted to the testing laboratory.
"Responsible institution" means the hospital or center providing
				  birthing services.
"Responsible physician" means the physician or other health care
				  professional providing care at the time of specimen collection whose name is placed
				  on the Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) specimen collection form.
"Satisfactory specimen" means a specimen received by the testing
				  laboratory in an acceptable condition for testing.
"Serum specimen" means a specimen of serum collected according to
				  established criteria of the laboratory performing the assay; serum specimens are
				  sent to the Department testing laboratory.
"Specimen" means a dried blood filter specimen collected on an
				  approved specimen collection form.
"Specimen collection form" means the current specimen collection
				  form as provided by the Department of Health and Senior Services.
"Supplemental newborn screening" means testing performed by
				  qualified laboratories for disorders in infants for which testing is not required
				  pursuant to 26:2-110 et seq. and this
				  chapter.
"Testing laboratory" means the Inborn Errors of Metabolism
				  Laboratory, Division of Public Health and Environmental Laboratories, New Jersey
				  Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 371, Trenton, NJ 08625-0371.
"Unsatisfactory specimen" means a specimen which is received by
				  the testing laboratory in a condition unacceptable for testing.