COMMUNICABLE DISEASE REPORTING IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Confidential Morbidity Report (PDF)
Communicable Disease Reporting Requirements
Including:
Diseases to be Reported Immediately by Telephone
Diseases or Suspected Diseases to be Reported Within One
Day of Identification
Diseases to be Reported Within Seven Calendar Days
Reportable Non-Communicable Diseases & Conditions
Title 17 State Regulation Regarding
Reporting
Phone, FAX and Address for Reporting
Communicable Disease Reporting Requirements
State law requires that health care providers report
diseases of public health importance. Physicians, nurses, dentists,
coroners, laboratory directors, school officials and other persons knowing
of a CASE OR SUSPECTED CASE of any of the following diseases or conditions
are required to report them to the local Department of Health.
REF: California
Administrative Code, Title 17, §2500.
Directions
for Reporting All Diseases
(Except AIDS,
Report All AIDS cases here)
Extremely urgent conditions (i.e.,
Anthrax, Botulism, Cholera, Dengue, Diphtheria, Food Borne Disease,
Plague, Rabies and Relapsing Fever) are to be reported immediately by
telephone, 24 hours a day, to the appropriate number listed below.
Other Urgent conditions should be
reported by telephoning or faxing within one (1) working day of identification
of the case or suspected case.
Non-urgent conditions are to be reported
within seven (7) calendar days from the time of identification.
Confidential
Morbidity Report forms must be completely filled out. All
of the requested information is essential, including the lab information
for selected diseases. All phone, fax and mailed reports are to be made
to the Disease Control Office in Riverside, with the following exceptions.
Reports of Syphilis in Eastern Riverside County (from Palm Springs to
Blythe) should be phoned to the Indio office. Reports of Non-Gonoccocal
Urethritis, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Chlamydia and Gonoccocal Infections
in Eastern Riverside County should be phoned, faxed or mailed to the
Indio office.
To order CMR forms, contact the Riverside
office listed below or download CMR
as PDF.
How
to Report All AIDS Cases:
FAXING IS NOT ALLOWED FOR AIDS CASES
Mail in a double envelope stamped “Confidential”
TO:
HIV/AIDS Program
P.O. Box 7600
Riverside, CA 92513-7600
PHONE#: (909) 358-5307 or 1-800-243-7275
ALWAYS USE CDC FORM 50.42A, Rev 01/2000 /50.42B, Rev
09/96 (Adult/Pediatric Confidential Case Report)
Title 17, California Code of Regulations,
Section 2500
Reportable Diseases and Conditions
§2500. REPORTING TO THE LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY.
§2500 (b) It shall be the duty of every health
care provider, knowing of or in attendance on a case of any of the diseases
or conditions listed below, to report to the local health officer for
the jurisdiction where the patient resides. Where no health care provider
is in attendance, any individual having the knowledge of a person who
is suspected to be suffering from one of the diseases or conditions
listed below may make such a report to the local health officer for
the jurisdiction where the patient resides.
§2500 (c) The administrator of each health facility,
clinic or other setting where more than one health care provider may
know of a case, a suspected case or an outbreak of disease within the
facility shall establish and be responsible for administrative procedures
to assure that reports are made to the local health officer.
§2500 (a) (14 “'Health care provider”
means a physician and surgeon, a veterinarian, a podiatrist, a nurse
practitioner, a physician assistant, a registered nurse, a nurse midwife,
a school nurse, an infection control practitioner, a medical examiner,
a coroner, or a dentist
ANIMAL
BITE:
Animal bites by a species subject to rabies are reportable
in order to identify persons potentially requiring prophylaxis for rabies.
Additionally, vicious animals identified may be controlled by this regulation
and local ordinances (California Administration Code, Title 17, Sections
2606 et seq.: Health and Safety Code Sections 121575-120435). Reports
can be filed with the local Animal Control Agency or Humane Society.
The County Animal Control office may assist in filing your report. Call
(951) 358-7387 or go the County
Animal Services site. Click here for Report Form.
PESTICIDE
EXPOSURE:
The Health and Safety Code, Section 105200, requires
that a physician who knows, or who has reason to believe, that a patient
has a pesticide-related illness or condition must report the case to
the local County Health Office by phone within 24 hours. For occupational
exposure, there is an additional requirement to send the "Doctor's
First Report of Occupational Injury or Illness" to the Department
of Health within 7 days. Phone reports may be made to (951) 358-5107 OR 358-5266; OR faxed to (951) 358-5102 OR 358-5446; copies of the report form (OEH-PETS 004,
Rev. 5/99) may be obtained from the same office or at the web site for
the State
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessments.
CANCER
REPORTING:
Under state law (Chapter 841, Statutes of 1985) invasive
or in situ malignancies (including CIN III of the cervix), except basal
and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin, diagnosed on or after June
1, 1988 which have not been admitted to a California hospital for diagnosis
or treatment of cancer, and will not be referred to a California hospital
for diagnosis or treatment must be reported to the County Health Department
on a Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) form. For additional information
on cancer reporting requirements please contact the Region 5 Cancer
Surveillance Program at (909) 558-6170 or e-mail at: dscp@dscp.com.
The web site is accessible through the California
Cancer Registry web site.
FAX, Phone and Address for Reporting
Riverside
-
Phone - (951) 358-5266
Fax - (951) 358-5102
Disease Control Branch
P.O. Box 7600
Riverside, CA 92513-7600
Indio -
Phone - (760) 863-8448
Fax -(760) 863-8183
Disease Control Branch
47-923 Oasis
Indio, CA 92201
Night & Weekend Emergency
(951) 782-2974
