Section 701 - Definitions(a) "Director" means the Director of the Division of Public Health or the Director's authorized deputies within their respective jurisdictions. ( ) "Expedited partner therapy" means the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease without clinical assessment of the partners.
(b) "Health-care professional" means any physician, nurse, laboratory or blood bank technologist or technician, and any others whose professions involve the diagnosis, care, or treatment of individuals or the testing of bodily specimens for the purpose of finding evidence of disease. ( ) "Health-care practitioner" means a physician or an individual licensed and authorized to prescribe under Title 24.
(c) "Health facility" means a hospital, nursing home, clinic, blood bank, blood center, sperm bank, laboratory, or other health care institution whether public or private.(d) "Invasive medical procedures" means surgical entry into tissues, cavities, or organs.(e) "Sexually transmitted diseases" or "STD" (formerly referred to as "venereal diseases"), means diseases designated by the Department of Health and Social Services as reportable through rules and regulations published by the Department of Health and Social Services under § 702 of this title upon finding that such disease meets both of the following:(1) Cause significant morbidity and mortality.(2) Can be screened, diagnosed, and treated in a public health control program, or if not, are a major public health concern such that surveillance of disease occurrence is in the public interest.(f) "Suspect" means an individual falling into 1 or more of the following categories: (1) An individual having positive laboratory or clinical findings of an STD.(2) An individual in whom epidemiologic evidence indicates an STD may exist.(3) An individual identified as a sexual contact of an STD case.Amended by Laws 2017, ch. 393,s 1, eff. 8/29/2018.66 Del. Laws, c. 334, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 149, § 78; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 277, § 1.;