How to report notifiable conditions
Immediately notifiable conditions
- Call (253) 649-1412 to speak with a nurse or disease investigator.
Other notifiable conditions
- Call (253) 649-1413 and leave a message, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Leave the patient’s name, date of birth, and disease.
- Or fax a notifiable condition report form to (253) 649-1389.
Disease-specific forms
- STD report form.
- HIV/AIDS adult case report form.
- Optional positive syphilis or HIV test supplemental patient info form.
- Positive tuberculosis screening report form.
- Perinatal hepatitis C fax form.
- Inter-facility infection prevention and safety form.
- Animal bite reporting instructions.
- Blood lead level report form.
- Carbon monoxide poisoning report form.
- Work-related asthma report form.
Outbreak reporting for healthcare facilities
All healthcare facilities should report outbreaks:
- Acute care hospitals.
- Long-term care facilities.
- Supported living facilities.
- Outpatient healthcare service facilities.
Report a suspected or confirmed outbreak of:
- COVID-19.
- Influenza.
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
- Stomach illness.
- Undiagnosed respiratory illness.
Pierce County healthcare facilities have several ways to report outbreaks:
- Use the facility outbreak notification tool (FONT) for healthcare settings (preferred).
- Or call us at (253) 649-1412.
- Or fax a notifiable condition report form to (253) 649-1389.
Include in your report:
- Facility name.
- Dates of first and most recent illness onset.
- Numbers of cases: number of staff and number of patients/residents.
- Whether or not you need support.
Notes:
- If you use point-of-care (POC) testing, include a line list of positive cases that includes name, date of birth, and date of test.
- If you use a commercial lab for testing, don’t include a line list.
- If you report these results to us, you don’t need to submit them to Washington State Department of Health.
Questions?
Contact Elle Cooper.
Notifiable conditions
Report suspected or confirmed. Print the list.
Report a suspected institutional outbreak of any illness (e.g., gastrointestinal or flu-like symptoms in a nursing home).
| Report immediately, 24/7—call (253) 649-1412. |
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| Amebic meningitis |
| Anthrax |
| Botulism (foodborne, wound, infant) |
| Burkholderia mallei (glanders) and pseudomallei (melioidosis) |
| Cholera |
| Coronavirus infection (SARS, MERS, COVID-19) |
| Diphtheria |
| Domoic acid poisoning (amnesic shellfish poisoning) |
| Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease) (children under 5 years old) |
| Influenza (novel or unsubtypable strain) |
| Measles (rubeola) (acute) |
| Meningococcal disease (invasive) |
| Mpox |
| Outbreak (suspected foodborne or waterborne origin) |
| Paralytic shellfish poisoning |
| Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, cluster)—Call (800) 222-1222. |
| Plague |
| Poliomyelitis |
| Rabies (confirmed human or animal) (suspected human exposure) |
| Rubella (including congenital rubella syndrome) (acute) |
| Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections (including but not limited to E. coli O157:H7) |
| Smallpox |
| Tularemia |
| Vaccinia transmission |
| Viral hemorrhagic fever |
| Yellow fever |
| Report within 24 hours. |
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| Baylisascariasis |
| Brucellosis |
| Candia auris infection or colonization |
| Hantaviral infection |
| Hepatitis A (acute) |
| Hepatitis B (acute) |
| Hepatitis C (acute) |
| Hepatitis C (perinatal) |
| Hepatitis D (acute or chronic) |
| Hepatitis E (acute) |
| Legionellosis |
| Leptospirosis |
| Listeriosis |
| Mumps (acute) |
| Pertussis |
| Psittacosis |
| Q fever |
| Salmonellosis |
| Shigellosis |
| Tuberculosis (confirmed or highly suspicious) |
| Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (not vancomycin-intermediate) |
| Vibriosis |
| Yersiniosis |
| Unexplained critical illness or death |
| Report within 3 workdays. |
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| Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (including people previously reported with HIV) |
| Anaplasmosis |
| Arboviral disease (acute) (including, but not limited to, chikungunya, dengue, eastern and western equine encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, LaCrosse encephalitis, Powassan virus, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus, Zika virus) |
| Babesiosis |
| Campylobacteriosis |
| Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections (limited to Klebsiella species, E. coli, Enterobacter species) |
| Chagas disease |
| Chancroid |
| Chlamydia trachomatis infection |
| Coccidioidomycosis |
| Cryptococcus gattii or undifferentiated Cryptococcus species (e.g., Cryptococcus not identified as C. neoformans) |
| Cryptosporidiosis |
| Cyclosporiasis |
| Cysticercosis |
| Echinococcosis |
| Ehrlichiosis |
| Giardiasis |
| Gonorrhea |
| Granuloma inguinale |
| Hepatitis B surface antigen-positive pregnant woman |
| Hepatitis B (chronic) (initial diagnosis and previously unreported cases) |
| Hepatitis B (perinatal) (initial diagnosis) |
| Hepatitis C (chronic) |
| Herpes simplex (neonatal, genital) (initial infection) |
| Histoplasmosis |
| HIV infection |
| Human prion disease |
| Immunization reactions (severe, adverse) |
| Influenza-associated death (lab-confirmed) |
| Lyme disease |
| Lymphogranuloma venereum |
| Malaria |
| Pesticide poisoning (non-hospitalized, non-fatal, non-cluster)—Call (800) 222-1222. |
| Relapsing fever (borreliosis) |
| Rickettsia infection |
| Syphilis (including congenital) |
| Taeniasis |
| Tetanus |
| Tick paralysis |
| Trichinosis |
| Typhus |
| Varicella-associated death |
| Report within 7 workdays. |
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| Tuberculosis infection (latent) (positive tuberculosis skin test or interferon-gamma release assay, e.g., QuantiFERON®-TB Gold) |
| Report monthly. |
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| Asthma (occupational) (suspected or confirmed)—Call (888) 66-SHARP. |
| Birth defects (autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, alcohol-related)—Call (360) 236-3533. |
| Facilities only: Birth defects: • Abdominal wall defects, including gastroschisis and omphalocele. • Down syndrome. • Hypospadias. • Limb reductions. • Neural tube defects, including anencephaly and spina bifida. • Oral clefts, including cleft lip with or without cleft palate. Gunshot wounds (non-fatal). |