Notifiable Conditions
- Notifiable Conditions homepage
- How to Report a Notifiable Condition
- List of Notifiable Conditions
- Notifiable Conditions Disease Reporting Forms for Washington State Department of Health
- STD Case Reports
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.
Washington Rules for STD- WAC & RCW
The links below go to Washington State Legislature webpages.
- Communicable & Certain Other Diseases - WAC 246-100
- Notifiable Conditions - WAC 246-101
- Notifiable Conditions & the Health Provider - WAC 246-101-101
- Notifiable Conditions & the Washington Laboratories - WAC 246-100-201
- Notifiable Conditions & Washington's Health Care Facilities - WAC 246-100-301
- Duties of the Local Health Officer or Local Health Department- WAC 246-100-505
- Control & Treatment of STD - RCW 70.24">Control & Treatment of STD - RCW 70.24