Disease reporting requirements in King County
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HIPAA and reporting to Public Health |
- Letter to Health Care Providers (PDF) regarding impacts on providers' ability to report persons with reportable conditions.
- Notice of Privacy Practices. This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
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Report a notifiable condition in King County |
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AIDS/HIV 206-296-4645 Download the HIV/AIDS Case Reporting Form (PDF) |
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Tuberculosis (TB) 206-744-4579 |
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Other Communicable Diseases 206-296-4774 |
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Automated 24-hour reporting line for conditions not immediately notifiable 206-296-4782 |
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FAX number for conditions not immediately notifiable (Please note, the fax machine is located in a secured and locked room) 206-296-4803 |
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) must be reported on the specific Sexually Transmitted Disease Confidential Case Report form below. Completed STD Case report forms can be faxed to 206-744-5622 or mailed to: Public Health - Seattle & King County
For assistance with the STD Case Report Form, you may call 206-744-3954. |
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List of notifiable communicable diseases and related conditions |
- Download the notifiable condition reporting form (PDF)
- List of communicable diseases and conditions (PDF)
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Conditions notifiable to the Washington State Department of Health |
- Asthma, occupational (suspected or confirmed)
1-888-66-SHARP
- Birth Defects (autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, and alcohol related birth defects)
360-236-3533
- Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, or cluster)I
1-800-222-1222
- Pesticide poisoning (all other) 3
1-800-222-1222
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Reporting requirements for health care facilities, schools, child care programs, veterinarians, and food service establishments |
See WAC Codes for:
- WAC 246-101-101 -- Health Care Providers
- WAC 246-101-401 -- For "Others"
- WAC 246-101-405 -- Veterinarians
- WAC 246-101-415 -- Child day care facilities
- WAC 246-101-420 -- Schools
Please supply as much of the following information as possible. Providing this information with the case report saves time. Thank you for your assistance:
- Patient's name
- Date of birth
- Race
- Gender
- Home phone
- Work phone
- Address
- Disease
- Method of diagnosis
- Date of onset
- Date of onset
- Lab test results
- Treatment given
- Possible source
- Attending physician
- Physician's phone number
- Additional comments
- Name/title of person making report
- Phone number of person making report
- Hospital admission/ER visit date
- Discharge date
Hepatitis reports:
Include liver functions, hepatitis screen results, risk factors, pregnancy status
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Laboratory reporting and specimen submission responsibilities |
Per WAC 246-101-201 - Laboratories.
Bold typeface indicates immediate report, underline indicates submission of specimen required:
- Anthrax - report immediately; submit culture
- Botulism (Foodborne, Infant and Wound) - report immediately; sample submission for botulism: foodborne - serum, stool, suspect foods; infant - stool; wound - culture, serum, debrided tissue or swab sample.
- Brucellosis - report within 2 days; submit subculture
- CD4+ (T4) lymphocyte counts <200 and/or percent <14% of total lymphocytes (age >13 years) – report monthly
- Chlamydia, - report within 2 days
- Cholera - report immediately; submit culture
- Cryptosporidiosis - report within 2 days
- Cyclosporiasis - report within 2 days; submit specimen
- Diphtheria - report within 2 days; submit culture
- Enterohemorrhagic (Shiga-like toxin producing) E. coli, incl. E. coli O157:H7 - report within 2 days; submit culture
- Gonorrhea - report within 2 days
- Hepatitis A (positive IgM) – report within 2 days
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) - report within 2 days (Western Blot , P24 antigen or viral culture tests)
- HIV infection (HIV nucleic acid tests [RNA or DNA]) – report monthly
- Listeria (blood/CSF) - report within 2 days
- Measles (rubeola) - report immediately; submit serum
- Meningococcal disease (blood/CSF/other sterile sites) - report within 2 days; submit culture or sterile site specimen
- Pertussis - report within 2 days
- Plague - report immediately; submit culture or other appropriate clinical material
- Rabies - (Human & Animal) report immediately (pathology report only; submit specimen upon request only)
- Salmonellosis - report within 2 days; submit culture
- Shigellosis - report within 2 days; submit culture
- Smallpox - report immediately
- Syphilis - submit specimen within 2 days
- Tuberculosis - report within 2 days; submit culture; report antibiotic sensitivity results to WA DOH for 1st isolates
- Tularemia - submit specimen within 2 days; submit culture or other appropriate clinical material
- Disease of Suspected Bioterrorism Origin - report immediately
- Rare diseases of public health significance - report immediately
Submit all specimens except tuberculosis (TB) cultures, botulism, and bioterrorism-related specimens to:
Public Health - Seattle & King County Laboratory
325 9th Avenue, Box 359973
Seattle, WA 98104-2499Phone: 206-744-8950
Submit TB cultures, botulism, and bioterrorism-related specimens to:
Washington State Public Health Laboratories
Washington State Department of Health
1610 NE 150th St
Seattle, WA 98155Phone: 206-418-5400
Report TB isolates and antibiotic sensitivities to:
Washington State Public Health
STD/TB Section
7211 Cleanwater Lane, Building 14
PO Box 47837
Olympia, WA 98504-7837Phone: 360-236-3473
Fax: 360-236-3405
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Notify Washington State Department of Health within 2 work days: Blood Lead Levels (Elevated Levels Only) Phone: 360-236-4245 Notify Washington State Department of Health on a monthly basis: Blood Lead Levels (Non-Elevated Levels) |