New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle AA - STATE COMMISSION OF CORRECTION › Chapter IV - Minimum Standards And Regulations For Management Of Secure Facilities Operated By The Office Of Children And Family Service › Part 7410 - Health Services › Section 7410.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Part, the following definitions shall apply
					 to the terms listed below:
(a)
				  Administrative health services authority shall mean a person or organized group
				  of persons responsible for the management of the health care delivery system of
				  a secure facility or group of facilities, excluding direct patient
				  care.
(b) Ambulatory services
				  clinic shall mean a designated area within a secure facility, including a room
				  or group of rooms, with facilities, services, equipment and personnel providing
				  nonresidential medical management of outpatients, which is planned, organized,
				  operated and maintained to function as an integrated unit within secure
				  facilities.
(c) Certified or
				  registered ambulance service shall mean an ambulance service having a valid
				  certificate or statement of registration issued pursuant to article 30 of the
				  Public Health Law.
(d) Clinical
				  health services authority shall mean an organized group of licensed health care
				  professionals responsible for the overall medical management of secure
				  residents and for all aspects of direct patient care of residents within secure
				  facilities.
(e) Drug room or
				  pharmaceutical storage shall mean any place within a secure facility in which
				  drugs, prescriptions or poisons are stored for delivery after having been
				  compounded, preserved or dispensed by a licensed pharmacist.
(f) Full-time shall mean the personal
				  availability of employees for the discharge of their assigned duties and
				  responsibilities for a period of not less than 40 hours during each facility
				  work week, excluding holidays and authorized leave periods, 32 hours of which
				  shall consist of their personal presence at their assigned work
				  stations/areas.
(g) Health
				  screening shall mean an interview and visual assessment of a resident conducted
				  by a facility health trained staff member which is recorded and designed to
				  elicit a past history or current evidence of a medical or mental health
				  condition requiring immediate medical or psychiatric evaluation and
				  treatment.
(h) Health trained staff
				  member shall mean an individual trained in limited aspects of health care as
				  determined by the facility medical director. Such training shall be
				  recorded.
(i) Infectious,
				  reportable disease shall mean an infectious disease transmissible to uninfected
				  persons by air and listed as reportable in Part 2 of Title 10 NYCRR.
(j) Infirmary shall mean a designated area
				  within a secure facility, including a multiple occupancy or group of rooms,
				  with facilities, services, equipment and personnel providing residential
				  nursing care and medical management of inpatients admitted for 24 hours or more
				  and which is planned, organized, operated and maintained to function as an
				  integrated unit within a secure facility.
(k) Licensed health care professional shall
				  mean a physician, nurse practitioner, registered professional nurse,
				  physician's assistant, licensed practical nurse or dentist licensed to practice
				  in the State of New York.
(l)
				  Medical director shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in the
				  State of New York.
(m) Medical hold
				  shall mean the retention of a named resident at a secure facility for so long
				  as it is believed that the transfer to another secure facility would be
				  detrimental to the resident's health or would hinder the effectiveness and
				  efficiency with which necessary health services are provided to such
				  resident.
(n) Medical isolation
				  shall mean a private room which is negative air-flow ventilated and which is
				  otherwise designed and equipped to assist health care staff in practicing
				  appropriate isolation techniques according to diagnosis.
(o) New construction or renovation shall mean
				  any of the following:
(1) a facility
				  constructed after the effective date of this Part;
(2) acquisition of a physical plant not
				  previously operated as a health care delivery setting;
(3) construction of a new physical plant;
				  or
(4) renovations, additions,
				  and/or alterations to the health care delivery setting within an existing
				  secure facility which involves major physical and/or structural changes or
				  major fixed equipment changers, other than replacements.