Control and Prevention of Communicable Diseases Sample Clauses

Control and Prevention of Communicable Diseases. DHEC is the state public health agency responsible for promoting and protecting the public’s health and has the primary responsibility for the control and prevention of communicable diseases such as TB, STD, HIV/AIDS infection and vaccine preventable diseases. DHEC provides a range of primary and secondary prevention services through its local health clinics to provide and/or coordinate communicable disease control services. The Contractor and/or its network provider for clinical management, treatment and direct observed therapy must refer TB suspects and cases to DHEC. This care will be coordinated with the Contractor’s PCP.
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Control and Prevention of Communicable Diseases. SCDHEC is the state public health agency responsible for promoting and protecting the public’s health and has the primary responsibility for the control and prevention of communicable diseases such as TB, STD, HIV/AIDS infection and vaccine preventable diseases. SCDHEC provides a range of primary and secondary prevention services through its local health clinics to provide and/or coordinate communicable disease control services. The Contractor and/or its network provider for clinical management, treatment and direct observed therapy must refer TB suspects and cases to SCDHEC. This care will be coordinated with the Contractor’s PCP.
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Control and Prevention of Communicable Diseases. DHH Office of Public Health (OPH) is the state public health agency responsible for promoting and protecting the public’s health and has the primary responsibility for the control and prevention of communicable diseases such as TB, STD, HIV/AIDS infection and vaccine preventable diseases. The CCN and/or its network providers are responsible for clinical management, treatment and direct observed therapy in accordance with the Joint Statement of the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Disease Society of American on the Treatment of Tuberculosis, dated June 20, 2003/52(RR11);1-77.
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Control and Prevention of Communicable Diseases. DHEC is the state public health agency responsible for promoting and protecting the public’s health and has the primary responsibility for the control and prevention of communicable diseases such as TB, STD, HIV/AIDS infection and vaccine preventable diseases. DHEC provides a range of primary and secondary prevention services through its local health clinics to provide and/or coordinate communicable disease control services. Due to the specialized knowledge and expertise required to treat TB cases and prevent its spread, all TB cases at risk for noncompliance with treatment or primary drug resistance are reported to DHEC for treatment. As a result, 95% of TB cases in South Carolina are treated in DHEC clinics. TB suspects and cases must be referred to DHEC by the Contractor and/or its network provider for clinical management and treatment and directly observed therapy. This care will be coordinated with the Contractor’s PCP.
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Control and Prevention of Communicable Diseases. The Contractor and/or its network Provider for clinical management, treatment and direct observed therapy must refer suspected and actual TB cases to DHEC. DHEC is the state public health agency responsible for promoting and protecting the public’s health and has the primary responsibility for the control and prevention of communicable diseases such as TB, STDs, HIV/AIDS infection and vaccine preventable diseases. DHEC provides a range of primary and secondary prevention services through its local health clinics to provide and/or coordinate communicable disease control services. This care will be coordinated with the Contractor’s PCP.
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Related to Control and Prevention of Communicable Diseases

  • Communicable Diseases Upon recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health, all employees shall be required, on an annual basis to be vaccinated and or to take antiviral medication for influenza. If the costs of such medication are not covered by some other sources, the Employer will pay the cost for such medication. If the employee fails to take the required medication, she may be placed on an unpaid leave of absence during any influenza outbreak in the home until such time as the employee has been cleared by the public health or the employer to return to the work environment. The only exception to this would be employees for whom taking the medication will result in the employee being physically ill to the extent that she cannot attend work. Upon written direction from the employee’s physician of such medical condition in consultation with the Employer’s physician, (if requested), the employee will be permitted to access their sick bank, if any, during any outbreak period. If there is a dispute between the physicians, the employee will be placed on unpaid leave. If the employee gets sick as a reaction to the drug and applies for WSIB the Employer will not oppose the application. If an employee is pregnant and her physician believes the pregnancy could be in jeopardy as a result of the influenza inoculation and/or the antiviral medication she shall be eligible for sick leave in circumstances where she is not allowed to attend at work as a result of an outbreak.

  • Workplace Violence Prevention and Crisis Response (applicable to any Party and any subcontractors and sub-grantees whose employees or other service providers deliver social or mental health services directly to individual recipients of such services): Party shall establish a written workplace violence prevention and crisis response policy meeting the requirements of Act 109 (2016), 33 VSA §8201(b), for the benefit of employees delivering direct social or mental health services. Party shall, in preparing its policy, consult with the guidelines promulgated by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Services Workers, as those guidelines may from time to time be amended. Party, through its violence protection and crisis response committee, shall evaluate the efficacy of its policy, and update the policy as appropriate, at least annually. The policy and any written evaluations thereof shall be provided to employees delivering direct social or mental health services. Party will ensure that any subcontractor and sub-grantee who hires employees (or contracts with service providers) who deliver social or mental health services directly to individual recipients of such services, complies with all requirements of this Section.

  • Communicable Disease Bodily injury" or "property damage" which arises out of the transmission of a communi- cable disease by an "insured";

  • Erosion Prevention and Control Purchaser’s Operations shall be conducted reasonably to minimize soil erosion. Equipment shall not be operated when ground conditions are such that excessive damage will result. Purchaser shall adjust the kinds and intensity of erosion control work done to ground and weather condi- tions and the need for controlling runoff. Erosion control work shall be kept current immediately preceding ex- pected seasonal periods of precipitation or runoff.

  • Prevention of Corruption The Contractor shall not offer, give, or agree to give anything, to any person an inducement or reward for doing, refraining from doing, or for having done or refrained from doing, any act in relation to the obtaining or execution of the Contract or for showing or refraining from showing favour or disfavour to any person in relation to the Contract.

  • Implementation of Corrective Action Plan After the Corrective Action Plan is finalized, the Purchasers shall use reasonable best efforts to implement the finalized Corrective Action Plan on the timeline set forth therein and provide periodic reports (as provided for therein) to the Sellers on the status of their implementation of the Corrective Action Plan.

  • Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention and Control The hospital in consultation with the Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) shall develop, establish and put into effect, musculoskeletal prevention and control measures, procedures, practices and training for the health and safety of employees.

  • Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace City reserves the right to deny access to, or require Contractor to remove from, City facilities personnel of any Contractor or subcontractor who City has reasonable grounds to believe has engaged in alcohol abuse or illegal drug activity which in any way impairs City's ability to maintain safe work facilities or to protect the health and well-being of City employees and the general public. City shall have the right of final approval for the entry or re-entry of any such person previously denied access to, or removed from, City facilities. Illegal drug activity means possessing, furnishing, selling, offering, purchasing, using or being under the influence of illegal drugs or other controlled substances for which the individual lacks a valid prescription. Alcohol abuse means possessing, furnishing, selling, offering, or using alcoholic beverages, or being under the influence of alcohol.

  • Prevention of Avoidance The Parties shall implement as necessary requirements to prevent Financial Institutions from adopting practices intended to circumvent the reporting required under this Agreement.

  • Fraud Prevention A. To screen its employees and contractors to determine if they have been excluded from Medicare, Medicaid or any federal or state health care program. The Contractor agrees to search monthly the HHS-Office of Inspector General ("OIG") and Texas Health and Human Services Commission Office of Inspector General ("HHSC-OIG") List of Excluded Individuals/Entities ("LEIE") websites to capture exclusions and reinstatements that have occurred since the last search and to immediately report to HHSC-OIG any exclusion information the Contractor discovers. Exclusionary searches for prospective employees and contractors shall be performed prior to employment or contracting. B. That no Medicaid payments can be made for any items or services directed or prescribed by a physician or other authorized person who is excluded from Medicare, Medicaid or any federal or state health care program when the individual or entity furnishing the items or services either knew or should have known of the exclusion. This prohibition applies even when the Medicaid payment itself is made to another contractor, practitioner or supplier who is not excluded. C. That this contract is subject to all state and federal laws and regulations relating to fraud and abuse in health care and the Medicaid program. As required by 42 C.F.R. §431.107, the Contractor agrees to keep all records necessary to disclose the extent of services the Contractor furnishes to people in the Medicaid program and any information relating to payments claimed by the Contractor for furnishing Medicaid services. On request, the Contractor also agrees to furnish HHSC, AG-MFCU, or HHS any information maintained under 42 C.F.

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