139A.2 - DEFINITIONS.

        139A.2  DEFINITIONS.
         For purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise
      requires:
         1.  "Area quarantine" means prohibiting ingress and egress to
      and from a building or buildings, structure or structures, or other
      definable physical location, or portion thereof, to prevent or
      contain the spread of a suspected or confirmed quarantinable disease
      or to prevent or contain exposure to a suspected or known chemical,
      biological, radioactive, or other hazardous or toxic agent.
         2.  "Business" means and includes every trade, occupation, or
      profession.
         3.  "Care provider" means an individual who is trained and
      authorized by federal or state law to provide health care services or
      services of any kind in the course of the individual's official
      duties, for compensation or in a voluntary capacity, who is a health
      care provider, emergency medical care provider as defined in section
      147A.1, fire fighter, or peace officer.  "Care provider" also
      means an individual who renders emergency care or assistance in an
      emergency or due to an accident as described in section 613.17.
         4.  "Communicable disease" means any disease spread from
      person to person or animal to person.
         5.  "Contagious or infectious disease" means hepatitis in any
      form, meningococcal disease, tuberculosis, and any other disease,
      with the exception of AIDS or HIV infection as defined in section
      141A.1, determined to be life-threatening to a person exposed to the
      disease as established by rules adopted by the department, based upon
      a determination by the state epidemiologist and in accordance with
      guidelines of the centers for disease control and prevention of the
      United States department of health and human services.
         6.  "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
         7.  "Designated officer" means a person who is designated by a
      department, agency, division, or service organization to act as an
      infection control liaison officer.
         8.  "Exposure" means the risk of contracting disease as
      determined by the centers for disease control and prevention of the
      United States department of health and human services and adopted by
      rule of the department.
         9.  "Exposure-prone procedure" means a procedure performed by
      a health care provider which presents a recognized risk of
      percutaneous injury to the health care provider and if such an injury
      occurs, the health care provider's blood is likely to contact a
      patient's body cavity, subcutaneous tissues, or mucous membranes, or
      an exposure-prone procedure as defined by the centers for disease
      control and prevention of the United States department of health and
      human services.
         10.  "HBV" means hepatitis B virus.
         11.  "Health care facility" means a health care facility as
      defined in section 135C.1, an ambulatory surgical center, or a
      clinic.
         12.  "Health care provider" means a person licensed to
      practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery,
      chiropractic, podiatry, nursing, dentistry, optometry, or as a
      physician assistant, dental hygienist, or acupuncturist.
         13.  "HIV" means HIV as defined in section 141A.1.
         14.  "Hospital" means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
         15.  "Isolation" means the separation of persons or animals
      presumably or actually infected with a communicable disease or who
      are disease carriers for the usual period of communicability of that
      disease in such places, marked by placards if necessary, and under
      such conditions as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of
      the infectious agent or contagion to susceptible persons.
         16.  "Local board" means the local board of health.
         17.  "Local department" means the local health department.
         18.  "Placard" means a warning sign to be erected and
      displayed on the periphery of a quarantine area, forbidding entry to
      or exit from the area.
         19.  "Public health disaster" means public health disaster as
      defined in section 135.140.
         20.  "Quarantinable disease" means any communicable disease
      designated by rule adopted by the department as requiring quarantine
      or isolation to prevent its spread.
         21.  "Quarantine" means the limitation of freedom of movement
      of persons or animals that have been exposed to a quarantinable
      disease within specified limits marked by placards for a period of
      time equal to the longest usual incubation period of the disease in
      such manner as to prevent the spread of a quarantinable disease which
      affects people.
         22.  "Reportable disease" means any disease designated by rule
      adopted by the department requiring its occurrence to be reported to
      an appropriate authority.
         23.  "Sexually transmitted disease or infection" means a
      disease or infection as identified by rules adopted by the
      department, based upon a determination by the state epidemiologist
      and in accordance with guidelines of the centers for disease control
      and prevention of the United States department of health and human
      services.
         24.  "Terminal cleaning" means cleaning procedures defined in
      the isolation guidelines issued by the centers for disease control
      and prevention of the United States department of health and human
      services.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2000 Acts, ch 1066, §2; 2001 Acts, ch 24, §29; 2001 Acts, ch 157,
      §1--3; 2003 Acts, ch 33, §9, 11; 2004 Acts, ch 1168, §6; 2006 Acts,
      ch 1079, §2; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §141
         Referred to in § 141A.9, 356.48