This section describes the conditions that Washington's health care facilities must notify public health authorities of on a statewide basis. The board finds that the conditions in the table below (Table HF-1) are notifiable for the prevention and control of communicable and noninfectious diseases and conditions. Local health officers may require additional conditions to be notifiable within the local health officer's jurisdiction. Health care facilities are required to notify public health authorities of cases that occur in their facilities. Health care facilities may choose to assume the notification for their health care providers for conditions designated in Table HF-1. Health care facilities may not assume the reporting requirements of laboratories that are components of the health care facility. Local health officers may require additional conditions to be notifiable within the local health officer's jurisdiction.
also include requirements for how notifications shall be made, when they are made, the content of these notifications, and how information regarding notifiable conditions cases must be handled and may be disclosed.
| Notifiable Condition | Time Frame for Notification | Notifiable to Local Health Department | Notifiable to State Department of Health |
| Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) | Within 3 work days | | √ |
| Animal Bites | Immediately | √ | |
| Arboviral Disease | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Asthma, occupational | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Abdominal Wall Defects (inclusive of gastroschisis and omphalocele) | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Autism Spectrum Disorders | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Cerebral Palsy | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Down Syndrome | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Alcohol Related Birth Defects | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Hypospadias | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Limb reductions | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Neural Tube Defects (inclusive of anencephaly and spina bifida) | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Oral Clefts (inclusive of cleft lip with/without cleft palate) | Monthly | | √ |
| Botulism (foodborne, infant, and wound) | Immediately | √ | |
| Brucellosis (Brucella species) | Immediately | √ | |
| Cancer (See chapter 246-430 WAC) | Monthly | | √ |
| Chancroid | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Chlamydia trachomatis infection | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Cholera | Immediately | √ | |
| Cryptosporidiosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Cyclosporiasis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Diphtheria | Immediately | √ | |
Disease of suspected bioterrorism origin (including):
• Anthrax
• Smallpox | Immediately | √ | |
| Disease of suspected foodborne origin (communicable disease clusters only) | Immediately | √ | |
| Disease of suspected waterborne origin (communicable disease clusters only) | Immediately | √ | |
| Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (shiga-like toxin producing infections only) such as E. coli O157:H7 Infection | Immediately | √ | |
| Giardiasis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Gonorrhea | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Granuloma inguinale | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Gunshot wounds (nonfatal) | Monthly | | √ |
| Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease, children under age 5) | Immediately | √ | |
| Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Hemolytic uremic syndrome | Immediately | √ | |
| Hepatitis A (acute infection) | Immediately | √ | |
| Hepatitis B (acute infection) | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Hepatitis B surface antigen + pregnant women | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Hepatitis B (chronic) – Initial diagnosis, and previously unreported prevalent cases | Monthly | √ | |
| Hepatitis C – Acute and chronic | Monthly | √ | |
| Hepatitis (infectious), unspecified | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Legionellosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Leptospirosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Listeriosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Lyme Disease | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Lymphogranuloma venereum | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Malaria | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Measles (rubeola) | Immediately | √ | |
| Meningococcal disease | Immediately | √ | |
| Mumps | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Paralytic shellfish poisoning | Immediately | √ | |
| Pertussis | Immediately | √ | |
| Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, or cluster) | Immediately | | √ |
| Plague | Immediately | √ | |
| Poliomyelitis | Immediately | √ | |
| Psittacosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Q Fever | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Rabies (Confirmed Human or Animal) | Immediately | √ | |
| Rabies (Use of post-exposure prophylaxis) | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Relapsing fever (borreliosis) | Immediately | √ | |
| Rubella (including congenital rubella syndrome) | Immediately | √ | |
| Salmonellosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Serious adverse reactions to immunizations | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Shigellosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Syphilis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Tetanus | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Trichinosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Tuberculosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Tularemia | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Typhus | Immediately | √ | |
| Vibriosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Yellow fever | Immediately | √ | |
| Yersiniosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Other rare diseases of public health significance | Immediately | √ | |
| Unexplained critical illness or death | Immediately | √ | |