Definitions

HRS §321-502, under Chapter 321.

HRS §321-502

[§321-502] Definitions. As used in this part:

"Adult" means a person eighteen years of age or older.

"Adult death review information" means information regarding the adult person and person's family, including:

"Department" means the department of health.

"Developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability of a person that:

"Director" means the director of health or the director’s designated representative.

"Intellectual disability" means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning resulting in or associated with concurrent moderate, severe, or profound impairments in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.

"Person with developmental or intellectual disabilities" means an adult with a developmental or intellectual disability.

"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. [L 2012, c 162, pt of §1]