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Oregon Revised Statutes Public Health and Safety § 433.004

Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) The Oregon Health Authority shall by rule:

(a) Specify reportable diseases;

(b) Identify those categories of persons who must report reportable diseases and the circumstances under which the reports must be made;

(c) Prescribe the procedures and forms for making such reports and transmitting the reports to the authority; and

(d) Prescribe measures and methods for investigating the source and controlling reportable diseases.

(2) Persons required under the rules to report reportable diseases shall do so by reporting to the local public health administrator. The local public health administrator shall transmit such reports to the authority.

(3) The authority or local public health administrator may investigate a case of a reportable disease, disease outbreak or epidemic. The investigation may include, but is not limited to:

(a) Interviews of:

(A) The subject of a reportable disease report;

(B) Controls;

(C) Health care providers; or

(D) Employees of a health care facility.

(b) Requiring a health care provider, any public or private entity, or an individual who has information necessary for the investigation to:

(A) Permit inspection of the information by the authority or local public health administrator; and

(B) Release the information to the authority or local public health administrator.

(c) Inspection, sampling and testing of real or personal property with consent of the owner or custodian of the property or with an administrative warrant.

(4)(a) The authority shall establish by rule the manner in which information may be requested and obtained under subsection (3) of this section.

(b) Information requested may include, but is not limited to, individually identifiable health information related to:

(A) The case;

(B) An individual who may be the potential source of exposure or infection;

(C) An individual who has been or may have been exposed to or affected by the disease;

(D) Policies, practices, systems or structures that may have affected the likelihood of disease transmission; and

(E) Factors that may influence an individual's susceptibility to the disease or likelihood of being diagnosed with the disease.

(5) In addition to other grounds for which a state agency may exercise disciplinary action against its licensees or certificate holders, the substantial or repeated failure of a licensee or certificate holder to report when required to do so under subsection (2) or (3) of this section shall be cause for the exercise of any of the agency's disciplinary powers.

(6) Any person making a report or providing information under this section is immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed with respect to the making of a report or providing information under this section.

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