Elective Surgery

DIRECTIVE NUMBER:
401.06.03.074
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DEPARTMENT
OF
CORRECTION
SUBJECT:
Elective Surgery
Adopted: 06-01-95
Revised: 05-01-99
Reformatted: 02-2001
INSTITUTIONAL
SERVICES
DIVISION
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01.00.00. POLICY OF THE DEPARTMENT
It is the policy of the Idaho Board of Correction that the Department of Correction
ensure proper medical, dental, psychiatric and psychological services and treatment be
provided to inmates incarcerated under its jurisdiction, including those state-sentenced
offenders held in non-IDOC facilities.
02.00.00. TABLE OF CONTENTS
01.00.00.POLICY OF THE DEPARTMENT
02.00.00.TABLE OF CONTENTS
03.00.00.REFERENCES
04.00.00.DEFINITIONS
05.00.00.PROCEDURE
03.00.00. REFERENCES
Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions, Third Edition, Standards 3-4359.
04.00.00. DEFINITIONS
Facility Health Authority: The on-site Health Authority or senior health staff assigned.
Medical Authority: Idaho Department of Correction Health Services Chief.
Medical Director: A physician (M.D.) either employed by the Idaho Department of
Correction or the physician in charge if medical services are privatized.
Mid-Level Provider: Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner.
Qualified Health Professional: Physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, nurse,
dentist, mental health professional and others who by virtue of their education,
credentials, and experience are permitted by law within the scope of their professional
practice are to evaluate and care for patients.
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SUBJECT:
Elective Surgery
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Regional Health Manager: The individual assigned as the primary manager who is
administratively responsible for the delivery of medical services if health services are
privatized.
05.00.00. PROCEDURE
The facility health authority, the medical director, and the consultant specialist physician
shall be the reviewing board which allows elective surgery procedures to be performed.
Treatment of an inmate’s health problems shall be geared to physical complications or
morbidity which occur because of a specific medical/physical problem, and not suited to
his/her subjective wants or needs.
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Administrator, Institutional Services Division Date