Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 56 > Chapter 17 - Crisis Standards of Care Act

• Activation: means a declaration by the director of the department of health and welfare that health care facilities may operate under crisis standards of care as necessary when scarce resource limitations preclude operating under usual standards of care. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Assistance: means aid in meeting daily living needs. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Crisis standards of care: means a substantial change in the usual health care operations and the level of care it is possible to deliver, justified by specific circumstances and formally declared by a state government in recognition that crisis operations will be in effect for a sustained period. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Declaration: means the issuance by the director of the department of health and welfare of a declaration or documentation that crisis standards of care have been activated in a particular region or statewide. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Department: means the Idaho department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Director: means the director of the Idaho department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Essential caregiver: means a person designated by a patient or resident to visit the patient or resident at a health care facility. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• facility: means a hospital, a nursing facility, or an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities as defined in chapter 13, title 39, Idaho Code, or a residential care or assisted living facility as defined in chapter 33, title 39, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Health care services: means services for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Patient: means a person receiving health care services at a health care facility. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;