048-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-2
These rules and regulations shall use the following terms as defined within this section:
(a) "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome" (AIDS) is the end result of HIV infection supported by documented opportunistic infections, malignancies, or selected systemic diseases in association with HIV seropositivity.
(b) "Body Fluid" includes any fluids that have been identified by the Center for Disease Control as potentially infectious and capable of facilitating the transmission of reportable diseases and conditions, including HIV/AIDS.
(c) "Confidential" means the restriction of information and records relating to a known or suspected case of a reportable disease or condition which has been reported, acquired, and maintained under W.S. 35-4-107 and 35-4-108, unless otherwise required by law.
(d) "Contagious" is the transmission of a disease by direct or indirect contact.
(e) "Designee" is an individual appointed by the Health Officer and conducting official business for and on behalf of the Wyoming Department of Health, a county, city or district health office.
(f) "Health Care Employee" is a general term used to identify an individual (employee) of a health care facility involved in the supervision, care and treatment of patient's commensurate with the employees qualifications and training.
(g) "Health Care Facility" is a public or private hospital, dispensary, or other facility or institution offering and/or providing medical services.
(h) "Health Care Professional" shall include licensed physicians, nurses, physicians assistants, nurse practitioners, dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants.
(i) "Health Care Provider" is a general term used to identify a health care facility and/or medical professional (e.g., physician, nurse, physicians assistant) providing, directing, supervising or recommending a schedule of medical services to or on behalf of an individual.
(j) "Health Care Worker" includes all personnel involved in the care of a patient including first responders, such as law enforcement, rescue personnel and those individuals acting as good Samaritans.
(k) "Health Officer" is the physician or authorized designee selected by the appointing authority for a specific jurisdiction: state, county, and/or city.
(l) "Hospital" is a facility with an organized medical staff with a capacity to conduct patient health care needs on a continuous and/or extended basis.
(m) "Infectious" is the capacity to rapidly spread infection to other individuals.
(n) " Isolate" is the restriction of an individuals freedom which is necessary to ensure individual and/or public health and welfare.
(o) "Laboratory" is a facility involved in the collecting, processing, analyzing, storing or passing of patient specimens to reference laboratory facilities for the purpose of identifying infectious, microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, biophysical, cytological or pathological specimens from the human body.
(p) "Life Threatening" means the potential for loss of life due to the known or suspected presence of medical condition(s) that may result in or lead to imminent death.
(q) "Penal Institution" is any public or private facility authorized by law to incarcerate individuals as ordered by the court.
(r) "Positive Test Result" is a test that concludes a person is infected with a reportable disease or condition.
(s) "Prisoner" is an individual confined or imprisoned in any state penal institution, county or city jail or any community correctional facility.
(t) "Reportable Disease" is a disease and/or condition designated as nationally notifiable by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as additional diseases and conditions considered notifiable by the Wyoming Medical and Public Health Community.
(u) "Treatment" is the actual passing or prescribing of medications or a schedule of health care procedures established by current medical standards to effect a cure for a disease or in the case of incurable reportable diseases or conditions, enhance and/or sustain the patient's life expectancy.
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