New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle AA - STATE COMMISSION OF CORRECTION › Chapter VI - Minimum Standards And Regulations For Management Of State Correctional Facilities › Part 7651 - Health Services › Section 7651.3 - 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 correctional facility or group of facilities, excluding direct patient
				  care.
(b) Ambulatory services
				  clinic shall mean a designated area within a correctional 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
				  correctional 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 inmates and for all aspects of direct patient
				  care of inmates within correctional facilities.
(e) Clinical physician shall mean a physician
				  licensed to practice medicine in New York State who is an independent
				  contractor with or employee of the Department of Corrections and Community
				  Supervision.
(f) Drug room or
				  pharmaceutical substock shall mean any place within a correctional facility in
				  which drugs, prescriptions or poisons are stored for delivery after having been
				  compounded, preserved or dispensed in a pharmacy.
(g) 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 371/2 hours during each facility
				  work week, excluding holidays and authorized leave periods, 30 hours of which
				  shall consist of their personal presence at their assigned work
				  stations.
(h) Health screening
				  shall mean an interview and visual assessment of an inmate conducted by a
				  facility health care staff member which is reduced to writing 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.
(i) Hemodialysis center
				  shall have the same meaning as set forth in 10 NYCRR Part 757.
(j) HIV illness shall mean a medical,
				  physical or mental health condition diagnosed by methods approved by the
				  national Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicative of a defect in
				  cell-mediated immunity believed to be caused by infection with the human
				  immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(k)
				  Hospital shall have the same meaning as set forth in Public Health Law, article
				  28.
(l) Infant shall mean a child
				  one year of age or less.
(m)
				  Infectious, reportable disease shall mean an infectious disease transmissible
				  to uninfected persons by air and listed as reportable in 10 NYCRR
				  2.1.
(n) Infirmary shall mean a
				  designated area within a correctional facility, including a multiple occupancy
				  room 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 correctional
				  facility.
(o) Medical hold shall
				  mean the retention of a named inmate at a facility for so long as it is
				  believed that transfer to another facility would be detrimental to the inmate's
				  health or would hinder the effectiveness and efficiency with which necessary
				  health services are provided to such inmate.
(p) Medical isolation shall mean the
				  confinement of an inmate diagnosed or suspected of having an infectious
				  reportable disease to 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.
(q) New construction or renovation shall mean
				  any of the following:
(1) a facility
				  constructed after September 1, 1985;
(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
				  facility which involve major physical and/or structural changes or major fixed
				  equipment changes, other than replacements.