Wash. Admin. Code § 246-101-101

Current through Register Vol. 24-21, November 1, 2024
Section 246-101-101 - Notifiable conditions-Health care providers and health care facilities
(1) For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Local health jurisdiction" means where the patient resides, or, in the event the patient's residence cannot be determined, the local health jurisdiction in which the patient received treatment.
(b) "Unexplained critical illness or death" means a severe illness or death with infectious hallmarks, but no known etiology, in a previously healthy person one to forty-nine years of age excluding those with chronic medical conditions such as malignancy, diabetes, AIDS, or cirrhosis.
(2) The conditions identified in Table HC-1 are notifiable to public health authorities under this table and this chapter.

Table HC-1 (Conditions Notifiable by Health Care Providers and Health Care Facilities)

Notifiable Condition (Agent)

Laboratory Confirmation Required Before Submitting Case Report

Time Frame for Notification from Identification of a Case

Who Must Be Notified

Who Must Report: Health Care Providers (Providers) or Health Care Facilities (Facilities)

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Within 3 business days

DOH (for facilities) and LHJ (for providers)

Both

Amebic meningitis

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Anaplasmosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis and confirmed Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis only - Do not report all Bacillus cereus )

Yes

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Arboviral disease (acute disease only) including, but not limited to:

Chikungunya

Dengue

Eastern and western equine

encephalitis

Japanese encephalitis

La Crosse encephalitis

Powassan virus infection

St. Louis encephalitis

West Nile virus infection

Zika virus infection

See also "Yellow fever"

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Asthma, occupational

Within 30 days

Washington state department of labor and industries (L&I)

Both

Babesiosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Baylisascariasis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Birth defects - Abdominal wall defects (inclusive of gastroschisis and omphalocele)

Within 30 days

DOH

facilities

Birth defects - Autism spectrum disorders

Within 30 days

DOH

Both

Birth defects - Cerebral palsy

Within 30 days

DOH

Both

Birth defects - Down syndrome

Within 30 days

DOH

facilities

Birth defects - Alcohol related birth defects

Within 30 days

DOH

Both

Birth defects - Hypospadias

Within 30 days

DOH

facilities

Birth defects - Limb reductions

Within 30 days

DOH

facilities

Birth defects - Neural tube defects (inclusive of anencephaly and spina bifida)

Within 30 days

DOH

facilities

Birth defects - Oral clefts (inclusive of cleft lip with/without cleft palate)

Within 30 days

DOH

facilities

Blood lead level

RST results

(See WAC 246-101-200)

Providers and facilities performing blood lead level RST shall report as a laboratory and comply with the requirements of WAC 246-101-201 through 246-101-230.

Botulism, foodborne, infant, and wound

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Brucellosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Campylobacteriosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Cancer (See chapter 246-102 WAC)

Candida auris infection or colonization

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteria-ceae infections limited to:

Klebsiella species E. coli Enterobacter species

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Chagas disease

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Chancroid

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Chlamydia trachomatis infection

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Cholera (Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139)

Yes

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Coccidioidomycosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Coronavirus infection (severe communicable)

SARS-associated coronavirus

MERS-associated coronavirus

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

Yes

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Coronavirus infection (severe communicable)

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

RST results

(See WAC 246-101-200)

Providers and facilities performing Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) RST shall report as a laboratory and comply with the requirements of WAC 246-101-201 through 246-101-230.

Cryptococcus gattii or undifferentiated Cryptococcus species (i.e., Cryptococcus not identified as C. neoformans )

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Cryptosporidiosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Cyclosporiasis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Cysticercosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Diphtheria

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Domoic acid poisoning

Immediately

LHJ

Both

E. coli (See "Shiga toxin-producing E. coli" )

Echinococcosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Ehrlichiosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Giardiasis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)

Yes

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Gonorrhea

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Granuloma inguinale

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Gunshot wounds (nonfatal)

Within 30 days

DOH

facilities

Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease, children under 5 years of age)

Yes

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Hantaviral infection

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis A (acute infection)

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis B (acute infection)

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis B, report pregnancy in hepatitis B virus infected patients (including carriers)

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis B (chronic infection) - Initial diagnosis, and previously unreported prevalent cases

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis B (perinatal) - Initial diagnosis, and previously unreported cases

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis C (acute infection)

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis C (acute infection) RST results

(See WAC 246-101-200)

Providers and facilities performing hepatitis C (acute infection) RST shall report as a laboratory and comply with the requirements of WAC 246-101-201 through 246-101-230.

Hepatitis C (chronic infection)

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis C (perinatal) - Initial diagnosis, and previously unreported cases

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis C (chronic infection) RST results

(See WAC 246-101-200)

Providers and facilities performing hepatitis C (chronic infection) RST shall report as a laboratory and comply with the requirements of WAC 246-101-201 through 246-101-230.

Hepatitis D (acute and chronic infection)

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Hepatitis E (acute infection)

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Herpes simplex, neonatal and genital (initial infection only)

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Providers

Histoplasmosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection

RST results

(See WAC 246-101-200)

Providers and facilities performing HIV infection RST shall report as a laboratory and comply with the requirements of WAC 246101-201 through 246-101-230.

Human prion disease

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, occupational

Within 30 days

L&I

Both

Influenza, novel or unsubtypable strain

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Influenza-associated death (laboratory confirmed)

Yes

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Legionellosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Leptospirosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Listeriosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Lyme disease

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Lymphogranuloma venereum

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Malaria

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Measles (rubeola) - Acute disease only

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei )

Yes

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Meningococcal disease, invasive

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Monkeypox

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Mumps, acute disease only

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Outbreaks and suspected outbreaks

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Paralytic shellfish poisoning

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Pertussis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, or cluster)

Immediately

DOH

Both

Pesticide poisoning (all other)

Within 3 business days

DOH

Both

Plague

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Poliomyelitis

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Pregnancy in patient with hepatitis B virus

See "Hepatitis B, report pregnancy in hepatitis B virus infected patients (including carriers)"

Psittacosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Q fever

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Rabies (suspect or laboratory confirmed human cases and laboratory confirmed animal cases)

Yes for animal

cases

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Rabies, suspected human exposure (suspected human rabies exposures due to a bite from or other exposure to an animal that is suspected of being infected with rabies)

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Relapsing fever (borreliosis)

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Rickettsia infection

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Rubella, acute disease only (including congenital rubella syndrome)

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Salmonellosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Serious adverse reactions to immunizations

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections/enterohemorrhagic E. coli infections

Yes

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Shigellosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Silicosis

Within 30 days

L&I

Both

Smallpox

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Syphilis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Taeniasis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Tetanus

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Tick paralysis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Trichinosis

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Tuberculosis disease (confirmed or highly suspicious, i.e., initiation of empiric treatment)

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Tularemia

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Typhus

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Vaccinia transmission

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (not to include vancomycin-intermediate)

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Varicella-associated death

Within 3 business days

LHJ

Both

Vibriosis (Vibrio species not including Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139)

See Cholera (Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139)

Yes

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Viral hemorrhagic fever

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Yellow fever

Immediately

LHJ

Both

Yersiniosis

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Unexplained critical illness or death

Within 24 hours

LHJ

Both

Wash. Admin. Code § 246-101-101

Amended by WSR 21-11-040, Filed 5/12/2021, effective 1/31/2022