New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 4 - DISEASE CONTROL (EPIDEMIOLOGY) › Part 3 - CONTROL OF DISEASE AND CONDITIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SIGNIFICANCE › Section 7.4.3.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
As used in these provisions, the following terms shall have
				  the meaning given to them, except where the context clearly requires
				  otherwise.
A. "Acute care hospital"
				means a hospital providing emergency services, in-patient medical and nursing
				care for acute illness, injury, surgery or obstetrics; ancillary services such
				as pharmacy, clinical laboratory, radiology, and dietary are required for acute
				care hospitals.
B. "Cancer" means
				all malignant neoplasms and in situ neoplasms and all intracranial neoplasms,
				regardless of the tissue of origin.
C. "Carrier" means an infected person or
				animal that harbors a specific infectious agent without clinical symptoms and
				that serves as a potential source of infection for humans.
D. "Condition of public health significance"
				means a condition dangerous to public health or safety.
E. "Designee" means an agency or
				instititution designated by the department of health to receive reports of
				notifiable conditions on its behalf for the purpose of public health
				surveillance.
F. "Disease" means an
				illness, including those caused by infectious agents or their toxic products
				which may be transmitted to a susceptible host.
G. "Division" means the epidemiology and
				response division of the department of health, P.O. Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM
				87502-6110.
H. "Health care
				professional" means any licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy, nurse,
				physician's assistant, midwife, veterinarian or other licensed health care
				provider .
I. "Isolation, detention
				or quarantine" means the complete separation or partial restriction of movement
				and association in such manner and for such period to prevent the direct and
				indirect transmission of the infectious agent.
J. "Laboratory" means the scientific
				laboratory division of the department of health or any other laboratory which
				performs diagnostic tests on specimens obtained from New Mexico sources for
				diseases and conditions covered by these rules.
K. "Notifiable condition" means a disease or
				condition of public health significance required by statute or these rules to
				be reported to the department of health.
L. "Other person" includes but is not limited
				to: laboratory staff; an official in charge of any health facility; hospital
				records or administrative personnel; the principal or person in charge of any
				private or public school, or child care center; teachers and school nurses; and
				a householder or any other person, in the absence of a health care professional
				having direct knowledge of a disease or condition of public health
				significance.
M. "Regional or
				local public health office" means a public health office designated by the
				public health division of the department of health.
N. "Report" means a notification to the
				department of health pursuant to these rules.
O. "Specimen" means any material derived from
				humans or animals for examination for diagnosis, prevention or treatment of any
				disease or condition of public health significance.