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EMPLOYEE MEDICAL FMLA LEAVE
COVERS:
1. Illnesses
2. Injury
3. Pre-delivery pregnancy complications
4. Post-delivery pregnancy complications
5. C-section deliveries
Employee
Medical FMLA Leave/Guidelines for Employee
Employee Medical FMLA Leave/Guidelines for Supervisor
DEFINITIONS:
SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION: For the purposes of FMLA, a"serious health condition" means an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves:
1. Inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or residential medical care facility.
2. Continuing treatment by a health care provider including:
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER: A doctor of medicine or osteopathy authorized to practice medicine or surgery; others "capable of providing health care services" including: podiatrists, dentists, clinical psychologists, optometrists, chiropractors, nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, clinical social workers, Christian Science practitioners and any health care provider from whom an employer or employer's group health plan will accept certification of serious health condition to substantiate a claim for benefits.(a) a period of incapacity which is the inability to work for more than three consecutive calendar days, and any subsequent treatment or period of incapacity that also involves
(b) treatment two or more times by a health care provider or treatment which results in a regimen of continuing treatment; incapacity due to pregnancy; a period of incapacity due to a chronic serious health condition which is one which requires periodic visits for treatment, continues over an extended period of time, may cause episodic incapacity or a period of incapacity which is permanent or long-term for which treatment may not be effective; any period of absence to receive multiple treatments.