Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 10 - Public Health Administration › Subchapter 10 - Registries › Part 3 - Rhode Island Birth Defects Registry (216-RICR-10-10-3) › Section 216-RICR-10-10-3.3 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Where used in this Part, the following
				  terms shall be construed as followed:
1.
				  "Act" means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 23-13.3.
2. "Birth defects" means structural and
				  chromosomal abnormalities that affect the development of organs and tissues of
				  an infant or child and may be identified during pregnancy, at birth or
				  following birth before a child's fifth (5th) birthday. Possible causes or
				  contributing factors to birth defects include genetics, environmental
				  pollutants, occupational hazards, dietary factors, medications and personal
				  behaviors.
3. "Clinical laboratory"
				  means a facility for the biological, microbiological, serological, chemical,
				  immunohematological, hematological, radiobioassay, cytological, pathological,
				  or other examination of materials derived from the human body for the purpose
				  of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any
				  disease or impairment of, or the assessment of the health of human beings, and
				  licensed pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 23-16.2.
4. "Council" means the Birth Defects
				  Surveillance and Information Advisory Council.
5. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Health.
6. "Director"
				  means the Director of the Department of Health.
7. "Health care facility" means any
				  institutional health service provider, facility or institution, place,
				  building, agency, or portion thereof, whether a partnership or corporation,
				  whether public or private, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated,
				  or engaged in providing health care services, including but not limited to
				  hospitals; nursing facilities; home nursing care provider (which shall include
				  skilled nursing services and may also include activities allowed as a home care
				  provider or as a nursing service agency); home care provider (which may include
				  services such as personal care or homemaker services); rehabilitation centers;
				  kidney disease treatment centers; health maintenance organizations;
				  freestanding emergency care facilities, and facilities providing surgical
				  treatment to patients not requiring hospitalization (surgi-centers); hospice
				  care, and physician ambulatory surgery centers and podiatry ambulatory surgery
				  centers providing surgical treatment. The term "health care facility" also
				  includes organized ambulatory care facilities which are not part of a hospital
				  but which are organized and operated to provide health care services to
				  outpatients such as central services facilities serving more than one health
				  care facility or health care provider, treatment centers, diagnostic centers,
				  outpatient clinics, infirmaries and health centers, school based health centers
				  and neighborhood health centers. The term "health care facility" shall not
				  apply to organized ambulatory care facilities owned and operated by
				  professional service corporations as defined in R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 7-5.1,
				  or to a private practitioner's (physician, dentist, or other health care
				  provider) office or group of the practitioners' offices (whether owned and/or
				  operated by an individual practitioner, alone or as a member of a partnership,
				  professional service corporation, organization, or association).
8. "Health care practitioner" means a
				  physician, physician assistant, certified registered nurse practitioner, or
				  midwife who provides primary care to children five (5) years of age and
				  younger.
9. "Primary care" means
				  the basic or general health care furnished by a practitioner who is responsible
				  for the overall and ongoing coordination of a patient's health care. In most
				  instances, primary care is focused on the point at which a patient first seeks
				  assistance from the health care system for non-emergency services.
10. "Registrar of the Rhode Island Birth
				  Defects Registry" hereinafter referred to as Registrar, means the person within
				  the Department designated by the Director to be responsible for the operation
				  of the Rhode Island Birth Defects Registry.
11. "Rhode Island Birth Defects Registry"
				  means the central registry established within the Department by the Director
				  pursuant to the Act as the statewide registry for the collection and recording
				  of information on certain cases of birth defects for the purpose of describing
				  the occurrence of birth defects in the newborn and children up to five;
				  detecting trends of morbidity and mortality, stimulating epidemiological
				  research, diminishing the impact of birth defects and infant mortality; and
				  identifying newborns and children with birth defects to intervene on a timely
				  basis for treatment.