[Part XXXVII.] domestic violence fatality review
§321-471 Definitions. As used in this part:
"Dating relationship" as used in this section has the same meaning prescribed in section 586-1.
"Department" means the department of health.
"Director" means the director of health or the director's designated representative.
"Domestic violence" means physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the threat of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, or assault, extreme psychological abuse or malicious property damage between family or household members.
"Domestic violence fatality review information" means information regarding a victim, including but not limited to:
"Domestic violence fatality review team" means those individuals appointed by the director to review domestic violence fatalities.
"Extreme psychological abuse" as used in this section has the same meaning prescribed in section 586-1.
"Family or household members" as used in this section means:
"Malicious property damage" as used in this section has the same meaning prescribed in section 586-1.
"Preventable death" means a death that reasonable medical, social, legal, psychological, or educational intervention may have prevented.
"Provider of medical care" means any health care practitioner who provides, or a facility through which is provided, any medical evaluation or treatment, including dental and mental health evaluation or treatment.
"Suspect" means a person suspected of having caused a victim's death.
"Victim" means an adult whose death is suspected of having been caused by domestic violence or domestic violence-related suicide. [L 2006, c 82, pt of §1; am L 2010, c 135, §7]