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Idaho <br />Department of <br />Correction <br /> <br /> <br />Standard <br />Operating <br />Procedure <br /> <br />Division of <br />Education <br />Treatment <br />and Reentry <br />Control Number: <br />401.06.03.070 <br />Version: <br />3.0 <br />Page Number: <br />1 of 4 <br />Adopted: <br />3-1-2001 <br />Reviewed: <br />07-30-2013 <br /> <br />Title: <br />Informed Consent <br /> <br />This document was approved by Shane Evans, chief of Division of Education Treatment <br />and Reentry on 07/30/2013 (signature on file). <br />Open to the general public: yes <br />BOARD OF CORRECTION IDAPA RULE NUMBER 401 <br />Medical Care <br />POLICY DOCUMENT NUMBER 401 <br />Hospitalization, Institutional Clinical Services, and Treatment <br />DEFINITIONS <br />Standardized Terms and Definitions List <br />Contract Medical Provider: A private company under contract with the Department to <br />provide comprehensive medical, dental, and/or mental health services to the incarcerated <br />offender population. A contract medical provider may include private prison companies and <br />other entities under contract with the Department to operate the Idaho Correctional Center <br />(ICC) and other out-of-state facilities housing Department offenders. <br />Facility Health Authority: The contract medical provider employee who is primarily <br />responsible for overseeing the delivery of medical services in an Idaho Department of <br />Correction (IDOC) facility. <br />Health Authority: The Department employee who is primarily responsible for overseeing or <br />managing the Department’s medical and mental health services. The health authority is <br />commonly referred to as the health services director. <br />Informed Consent: The agreement by a patient to a treatment, examination, or procedure <br />after the patient receives the material facts about the nature, consequences, and risks of the <br />proposed treatment, examination, or procedure; the alternatives to it; and the prognosis, if <br />the proposed treatment is not undertaken. <br />PURPOSE <br />The purpose of this standard operating procedure (SOP) is to establish procedures to afford <br />offenders the opportunity to evaluate knowledgeably the options available and the attendant <br />risks of interventions recommended for the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting <br />health status.