Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 36, September 6, 2024
Section 64-29-3 - Definitions3.1. Bureau - The Bureau for Public Health in the Department of Health and Human Resources.3.2. Child - A person less than eighteen (18) years of age.3.3. Child Fatality Review Panel (CFRP) - A multidisciplinary group of professionals including representatives from public health, medicine, law and law enforcement, and child welfare that reviews the circumstances surrounding the deaths of children.3.4. Commissioner - The Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health or his or her designee.3.5. Department - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.3.6. Domestic violence fatality - An unnatural death precipitated by events surrounding a relationship among individuals who are family or household members as defined in W. Va. Code § 48-27-204.3.7. Domestic Violence Fatality Review Panel (DVFRP) - A multidisciplinary group of professionals including but not limited to representatives from public health, mental health, medicine, law and law enforcement and adult welfare that reviews the circumstances surrounding the deaths of children or aduhs which may be related to incidents of domestic violence.3.8. Domestic violence incident - An unnatural death resulting from an action defined in WV Code § 48-27-202 which is reviewed by the panel. The final determination as to whether an incident is a domestic violence fatality shall be made at the time of the panel review.3.9. Fatality and Mortality Review Team (FMRT) - A multidisciplinary team created to oversee and coordinate the examination, review and assessment of the unexplained, unexpected or unintentional deaths of children, infants, mothers during pregnancy or within one year of giving birth, persons suspected to have died from domestic violence and those who die from an unintentional prescription or pharmaceutical drug overdose. 3.10. Immediate review - A review of the circumstances surrounding the death of a child that occurs between twenty-four (24) and forty-eight (48) hours following the death of a child.3.11. Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Panel (IMMRP) - A multidisciplinary group of professionals including representatives from public health and the medical community that review the circumstances surrounding the deaths of infants who die in the first year of life and women who die during pregnancy, at the time of birth or within one year of the birth of a child.3.12. Infant mortality - Death of a live born infant in the first year of life.3.13. Incident - An unnatural death reviewed by a panel. The final determination as to whether an incident is a child fatality, domestic violence fatality, infant or maternal fatality or an unintentional pharmaceutical drug overdose fatality shall be made at the time of the panel's review.3.14. Maternal mortality - Death of a woman during pregnancy, at the time of birth or within one year of the birth of a child from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.3.15. Review - The process by which all of the facts and circumstances about a deceased child or person suspected to have died due to domestic violence, unintentional pharmaceutical drug overdose or an infant or maternal death are known to members of a panel and are shared and discussed among the members of that panel.3.16. Unexpected death - The death of a healthy child whose immediate death is not anticipated.3.17. Unexplained death - The cause and manner of death that cannot be determined after an autopsy and thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death.3.18. Unintentional pharmaceutical drug overdose - The death of a person from an apparent unintentional drug overdose of either a prescription drug or other pharmaceutical drugs.3.19. Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Review Panel (UPDORP) - A multidisciplinary panel created to examine, review and analyze the deaths of all persons in the state of West Virginia who die as a result of unintentional prescription or pharmaceutical drug overdoses.