Laws & Regulations
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Notifiable Conditions
Legal Reporting Requirements for STD
Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
- Health care providers: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within 3 work days
- Hospitals: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within 3 work days
- Laboratories: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within 2 work days
- Local health jurisdictions: notify the Washington State Department of Health Sexually Transmitted Disease Services Section via the PHIMS-STD system within 7 days of case investigation completion; summary information required within 21 days for all reported cases.
Chancroid, Granuloma Inguinale, and Lymphogranuloma Venereum
- Health care providers: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within three work days
- Hospitals: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within three work days
- Laboratories: no requirements for reporting
- Local health jurisdictions: notify the Washington State Department of Health Sexually Transmitted Disease Services Section via the PHIMS-STD system within 7 days of case investigation completion; summary information required within 21 days for all reported cases.
Herpes
- Health care providers: initial genital and all neonatal infections are notifiable to local health jurisdiction within three work days (WAC 246-101-101)
- Hospitals: no requirements for reporting
- Laboratories: no requirements for reporting
- Local health jurisdictions: notify the Washington State Department of Health Sexually Transmitted Disease Services Section via the PHIMS-STD system within 7 days of case investigation completion; summary information required within 21 days for all reported cases.
Syphilis
- Health care providers: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within three work days
- Hospitals: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within three work days
- Laboratories: notifiable to local health jurisdiction within two work days, specimen submission required to State Public Health Laboratory or Public Health, Seattle
and King County laboratory
- Local health jurisdictions: notify the Washington State Department of Health Sexually Transmitted Disease Services Section via the PHIMS-STD system within 7 days of case investigation completion; summary information required within 21 days for all reported cases.
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Washington Rules for STD- WAC & RCW
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STD Guidelines
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