As used in KRS 209.550 to 209.554, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department; (2) "Department" means the Department for Public Health; (3) "Documentation" means written evidence from an individual's health care provider that indicates the date and place the individual received the influenza vaccine or the pneumococcal vaccine; (4) "Employee" means an individual who is employed, directly or by contract, with another entity, on a part-time or full-time basis; (5) "Medically contraindicated" describes a situation in which the influenza or pneumococcal vaccine should not be administered to an individual because of a condition that the individual has that will be detrimental to the individual's health if the individual receives the vaccine; and (6) "Long-term care facility" has the same meaning as in KRS 216.510, except that for purposes of KRS 209.550 to 209.554, "long -term care facility" does not include family-care homes or personal-care homes.
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