048.0051.2.3

Ch. 2, § 3. Reporting Procedure

Last amended: 2001Length: 193 wordsOfficial source

Cite as Sexually Transmitted Diseases Rules, Ch. 2, § 3

(a) The physician must report or cause a report to be made using an official State Disease Case Report, a report via telephone, or a report via secured fax. (b) The administrator of a health care facility or penal institution must report or cause a report to be made of the diagnosis or treatment of a sexually transmitted disease.. (c) The administrator or operator of a laboratory must report or cause a report to be made of test findings for reportable sexually transmitted diseases. (d) Any physician or other health care provider and any administrator or operator of a health care facility or laboratory or penal institution reporting a diagnosis or positive test result pursuant to W.S. 35-4-130 through 35-4-134 shall notify any health care employee and/or health care professional reasonably expected to be at risk of exposure to a dangerous or life-threatening sexually transmitted disease, e. g., HIV/AIDS, who is involved in the supervision, care, and treatment of an individual infected or reasonably suspected of being infected with a dangerous life-threatening sexually transmitted disease. (i) Notification shall be verbal. (ii) Notification shall take place within 24 hours or as soon as possible.
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