As used in ORS 654.412 to 654.423: (1) Assault means intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing physical injury. (2) Energy generating device means a tool that performs a surgical function using heat, laser, electricity or other form of energy. (3) Health care employer means: (a) An ambulatory surgical center as defined in ORS 442.015. (b) A hospital as defined in ORS 441.760, except for the Oregon State Hospital. (c) A home health agency as defined in ORS 443.014. (d) A home hospice program. (4) Home health care services means items or services furnished to a patient by an employee of a health care employer in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the patients home. (5) Home hospice program means a coordinated program of home care, available 24 hours a day, that utilizes an interdisciplinary team of personnel trained to provide palliative and supportive services to a patient-family unit experiencing a life threatening disease with a limited prognosis. (6) Smoke evacuation system means equipment that effectively captures or neutralizes surgical smoke before the smoke makes contact with the eyes or the respiratory tract of the occupants of a room. (7) Surgical smoke means the by-product that results from contact with tissue by an energy generating device. (8) Workplace violence includes any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, assault, homicide or any other threatening behavior that occurs in the workplace.
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