Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Disease Reporting and Control [12 VAC 5 ‑ 90]
Action Expanded Requirements for Reporting Healthcare-Associated Infections
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 12/18/2013
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11/21/13  8:46 pm
Commenter: Donald R. Stern, M.D., M.P.H., Virginia Department of Health, Richmond Cit

Infectious Disease Reporting Requirements
 

 

VDH should design this disease reporting requirment change in manner that it does not function as a disincentive for a hospital infection control person or the ID physican or laboratory  to pick up the phone and call their local health director when they think they really have something going on.  For outbreak management and infection control purposes timing can be everything.   Recommend that the regulations be written in a manner so that they do not limits the infectious disease reporting requirement and involvement of local public health officials, if needed,  to entering some data into an electronic database – especially outside VDH. 

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CommentID: 29315