Section 209.550 - Definitions for KRS 209.550 to 209.554As used in KRS 209.550 to 209.554, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department;(2) "Department" means the Department for Public Health;(3) "Documentation" means written evidence from an individual's health care provider that indicates the date and place the individual received the influenza vaccine or the pneumococcal vaccine;(4) "Employee" means an individual who is employed, directly or by contract, with another entity, on a part-time or full-time basis;(5) "Medically contraindicated" describes a situation in which the influenza or pneumococcal vaccine should not be administered to an individual because of a condition that the individual has that will be detrimental to the individual's health if the individual receives the vaccine; and(6) "Long-term care facility" has the same meaning as in KRS 216.510, except that for purposes of KRS 209.550 to 209.554, "long-term care facility" does not include family-care homes or personal-care homes.Effective:7/15/2002
Created 2002, Ky. Acts ch. 151, sec. 1, effective7/15/2002.