communicable diseases

The Department of Health Services shall establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions, and specify requirements (e.g. the timeliness related to the reporting of each disease and condition, the mechanisms for reporting, and the content to be included) for the reports made. The diseases listed as reportable shall be properly reported as required to the department by the health officer.

Commencing July 1, 2009, or within one year of the establishment of a state electronic laboratory reporting system, whichever is later, a report of a reportable disease or condition generated by a laboratory shall be submitted electronically in a manner specified by the Department of Public Health. This electronic reporting requirement shall not apply to reports of HIV infections. The department shall allow laboratories that receive incomplete patient information to report the name of the provider who submitted the request to the local health officer.

Disclosure and use exemption set out for state health services, communicable diseases, developmental disabilities.

A minor who is 12 years of age or older and who may have come into contact with an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease may consent to medical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of the disease, if the disease or condition is one that is required by law to be reported to the local health officer, or is a related sexually transmitted disease.

Agency assessment of foster parents applying for adoption shall include certification that adults have been tested for communicable tuberculosis.

When there is an outbreak of a milk-transmitted disease in the household of a dairy industry worker, the case must be reported to the health officer.

In the event of the demise of a person afflicted with the reportable disease or condition, the coroner or county health officer shall notify the funeral director charged with removing the decedent from the coroner's office of the reportable disease.

Each health facility shall report quarterly all cases of specified health-care-associated bloodstream infections and bacterial infections, and the number of inpatient days; all central line associated bloodstream infections and the total central line days; all health-care-associated surgical site infections of deep or organ space surgical sites, health-care-associated infections of orthopedic surgical sites, cardiac surgical sites, and gastrointestinal surgical sites designated as clean and clean-contaminated, and the number of surgeries involving deep or organ space, and orthopedic, cardiac,

The chief of medical services of the Department of Corrections, or his or her designee, shall use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and to immediately investigate all reported or suspected cases of, tuberculosis in the infectious stages and to ascertain the source or sources of the infections.

The chief medical officer shall order an inmate or ward to receive an examination or test, or may order an inmate or ward to receive treatment if the medical officer has a reasonable suspicion that the inmate or ward has, has had, or has been exposed to tuberculosis in an infectious stage and the chief medical officer has reasonable grounds to believe that it is necessary for the preservation and protection of staff and inmates or wards.