Delaware Code Title 16. Health and Safety § 701. Definitions

(a) “Director” means the Director of the Division of Public Health or the Director's authorized deputies within their respective jurisdictions.

(b) “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.

(c) “Health-care practitioner” means a physician or an individual licensed and authorized to prescribe under Title 24.

(d) “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.

(e) “Health facility” means a hospital, nursing home, clinic, blood bank, blood center, sperm bank, laboratory, or other health-care institution whether public or private.

(f) “Invasive medical procedures” means surgical entry into tissues, cavities, or organs.

(g) “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:

(h) “Suspect” means an individual falling into 1 or more of the following categories: