2013 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 19. HEALTH
321. Department of Health
321-502 Definitions.

§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:

(1) Social, medical, and legal histories;

(2) Death and birth certificates;

(3) Law enforcement investigative data;

(4) Medical examiner or coroner investigative data;

(5) Parole and probation information and records;

(6) Information and records of social service agencies;

(7) Educational records; and

(8) Health care institution information.

"Department" means the department of health.

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

(1) Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;

(2) Is manifested before the person attains age twenty-two;

(3) Is likely to continue indefinitely;

(4) Results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(i) Self-care;

(ii) Receptive and expressive language;

(iii) Learning;

(iv) Mobility;

(v) Self-direction;

(vi) Capacity for independent living; and

(vii) Economic self-sufficiency; and

(5) Reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services that are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated.

"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]