(A) In making the finding under § 92.06 and determining the measures under § 92.07, the Director will consult with the medical consultant of the Central District Health Department, and with the state’s Chief Medical Officer or other medical and communicable disease control personnel of the State Public Health Department. The Director may make use of the expertise and observations of any health care provider who has treated a person subject to consideration for a directed health measure. The Director will also consider the directives and guidelines issued by the American Public Health Association and the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(B) In determining the nature, scope and duration of the directed health measure ordered, the Director, based on the information available at the time of the determination, will:
(1) Assess the situation and identify the least restrictive practical means of isolation, quarantine, decontamination or imposition of other directed health measures on persons or property that effectively protects unexposed and susceptible individuals;
(2) When isolation or quarantine is ordered, select a place that will allow the most freedom of movement and communication with family members and other contacts without allowing disease transmission to others and allow the appropriate level of medical care needed by isolated or quarantined individuals to the extent practicable;
(3) For communicable diseases, order that the duration of the directed health measure should be no longer than necessary to ensure that the affected individual or group no longer poses a public health threat;
(4) Give consideration to separation of isolated individuals from quarantined individuals. However, if quarantine or isolation is possible in the affected individual’s home, individuals may be isolated with quarantined individuals; and
(5) Give consideration to providing for termination of the order under the following circumstances: if laboratory testing or examination is available to rule out a communicable condition, the order may provide proof of the testing or examination negative result will be accepted to terminate a directed health measure. If treatment is available to remedy a communicable condition, the order may provide that proof of successful treatment will be accepted to terminate a directed health measure.
(Ord. 245, passed 5-2-2006)