N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.4

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 8:57-1.4 - Health care provider and administrator reporting of reportable communicable diseases

(a) Every health care provider and administrator shall report any person who is ill or infected with any disease listed in 8:57-1.5 within the required timeframe, and shall make a report as set forth in 8:57-1.6.

(b) Duplicate reporting of the same case by health care providers and administrators is not necessary.

(c) Health care providers and administrators may delegate these reporting requirements to a member of the staff, but this delegation does not relieve the health care provider or administrator of the ultimate reporting responsibility.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.4

Amended by R.1990 d.243, effective 6/4/1990.
See: 21 N.J.R. 3897(a), 22 N.J.R. 1766(a).
Text of 1.4, reporting of diseases occurring in institutions, recodified to 1.5, text on reporting of diseases by physicians recodified from 1.3 with reporting requirements changed and (c), (e) and (f) added.
Amended by R.1999 d.305, effective 9/7/1999.
See: 31 N.J.R. 987(b), 31 N.J.R. 2617(a).
Inserted (a)12.
Repeal and New Rule, R.2003 d.412, effective 10/20/2003.
See: 34 N.J.R. 3945(a), 35 N.J.R. 4883(b).
Section was "Reporting of diseases in an outpatient-based setting".
Amended by R.2009 d.107, effective 4/6/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1962(a), 41 N.J.R. 1419(a).
Section was "Persons and institutions required to report reportable diseases". In the introductory paragraph of (a), substituted "Every health care provider and administrator shall" for "The following individuals and institutions are required to", updated the N.J.A.C. references and inserted "within the required timeframe,"; deleted (a)1 through (a)4; in (b), substituted "and administrators" for "in the same institution"; and rewrote (c).

The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available