Public Record Disclosure - WA State Dept. of Health

Welcome to the Washington State Department of Health site for public record disclosure.
This site provides information on:

How to make a request?

To make a Public Record Disclosure request, you may e-mail, call, write, fax or ask for the records in person. The listing below shows e-mail, postal and phone information for each Public Record Disclosure Coordinator.

If you believe records may be in one or more division or office, please send it to just one. Public Record Disclosure Coordinators check with each other when records are likely to be in more than one place. If you know that records may be in different places, please include that information in your request.

To e-mail your request, click on the name of a Public Record Disclosure Coordinator for the division or office where you believe the records are. An e-mail to that Coordinator will appear on your screen.

If you want to make the request in person, contact the Public Record Disclosure Coordinator for directions to the office.

For us to respond as quickly as possible, please provide as much information about the records as you can. We also need information about how to contact you if we have questions and where to send the records.

How to receive records

You may receive records responsive to your request in three ways. You may choose to receive them:

As paper copies we send you in the mail.
- Currently, if there are 50 or fewer pages, there is no charge.
- If there are 51 pages or more, we charge 15 cents per page for all the pages.
- We do not charge a separate fee to cover postage costs.
Electronically (as e-mail attachments, on a disk or other media).
- Currently we do not charge a fee when we provide records as an e-mail attachment. Programs may charge for media other than e-mail attachments.
- Please note that some responses contain many pages. We send approximately 100 pages of records as an e-mail attachment. We will send multiple e-mails with that size attachment to provide you all of the records. Your machine must be able to handle that amount of information in an attachment.
By inspecting the records at the DOH Office where the majority of the records are located.
- You must arrange for inspection ahead of time with the public disclosure contact who responds to your request.
- Inspection times are from 9AM-noon and 1-4 PM weekdays, except days that are state recognized holidays. You may be able to arrange an inspection during a noon hour. It depends on whether the staff in the office are available at noon.
- After inspection, you may ask us to make copies. We will either send them to you electronically, or make paper copies.

Division Public Record Disclosure Coordinators

Central Administration

Financial Services, Contracts, Properties & Procurement: Bonita Berndson
PO Box 47901
Olympia, WA 98504-7901
Phone: (360) 236-4538
Fax: (360) 236-4500

Human Resources: Melanee Auldredge
PO Box 47903
Olympia, WA 98504-7903
Phone: (360) 236-4388
Fax: (360) 236-4414

Information Technology Management: Diana Herington
PO Box 47904
Olympia, WA 98504-7904
Phone: ( 360) 236-4457
Fax: (360) 236-4421

Risk Management & Safety: Dennis Anderson
PO Box 47816
Olympia, WA 98504-7816
Phone: (360) 236-4416
Fax: (360) 236-2299

Community and Family Health

Assistant Secretary's Office
Health Promotion
Community Wellness & Prevention
Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health
Maternal and Child Health

All Community and Family Health: Luisa Parada Estrada
PO Box 47830
Olympia, WA 98504-7830
Phone: (360) 236-3719
Fax: (360) 664-4500

Environmental Health

Assistant Secretary’s Office: Aileen Haag
PO Box 47820
Olympia, WA 98504-7820
Phone: (360) 236-3002
Fax: (360) 236-2250

Drinking Water

Program Public Record Disclosure Coordinator
Ronni Woolrich
PO Box 47828
Olympia, WA 98504-7828
Phone: (360) 236-3092
Fax: (360) 664-4500

Environmental Health & Safety: Christie Durkin
PO Box 47825
Olympia, WA 98504-7825
Phone (360) 236-3396
Fax (360) 236-2261

Program Headquarters
Diana Thieme
PO Box 47822
Olympia, WA 98504-7822
Phone: (360) 236-3042
Fax: (360) 236-2252

Shellfish & Water Protection: Ashley Scott; PO Box 47824
Olympia, WA 98504-7824
Phone: (360) 236-3301
Fax: (360) 236-2257

Data Requests
Customer Service Help Desk
PO Box 47828
Olympia, WA 98504-7828
Phone: (360) 236-3113
Fax: (360) 236-2254

Radiation Protection: Phyllis Hurtado
PO Box 47827
Olympia, WA 98504-7827
Phone: (360) 236-3239
Fax: (360) 236-2255

Eastern Regional Office – Spokane
LeAnn Grant
16201 E. Indiana Ave. Ste. 1500
Spokane Valley, WA 99216
Phone: (509) 329-2108
Fax: (509) 329-2104

Northwest Regional Office - Kent
Cynthia Blackwell
20435 72nd Ave S, Suite 200
Kent, WA 98032
Phone: (253) 395-6750
Fax: (253) 395-6760

Southwest Regional Office – Olympia
Debbie Phillips
PO Box 47823
Olympia, WA 9850-47823
Phone: (360) 753-4152
Fax: (360) 664-8058

Epidemiology, Health Statistics and the Public Health Laboratories

Assistant Secretary’s Office
Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Public Health Laboratories
Center for Health Statistics
Informatics Office
Non-Infectious Conditions Epidemiology

All Epidemiology, Health Statistics and the Public Health Laboratories: Susan Elwanger
PO Box 47811
Olympia, WA 98504-7811
Phone: (360) 236-4203
Fax: (360) 236-4245

Health Systems Quality Assurance

Examples of services include:

Health Care Practitioner regulation

Health Care Facilities and Services regulation

Certificate of Need

Rural Health

All Health Systems Quality Assurance: Public Disclosure Records Center
PO Box 47865
Olympia, WA 98504-7865
Phone: (360) 236-4836
Fax: (360) 586-2171

Office of the Secretary

Executives:
- Secretary
- Deputy Secretary
- State Health Officer
Communications
Performance & Accountability
Policy, Legislative & Constituent Relations
Privacy/Public Disclosure
Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response Program
Public Health System Planning & Development

All Office of the Secretary: Jill Edgin
PO Box 47890
Olympia, WA 98504-7890
Phone: (360) 236-4011
Fax: (360) 586-7424

Still have a question?
Contact the Department of Health Public Disclosure Officer at: Public Disclosure Officer