Code of Virginia - Title 32.1 Health - Chapter 2 Disease Prevention And Control

32.1-35 List and reports of diseases and dangerous microbes and pathogens
The Board shall promulgate from time to time a list of diseases, including diseases caused by exposure to any toxic substance as defined in § ...
32.1-35.1 Information on nosocomial infections
Acute care hospitals shall report information about nosocomial infections to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network. Such hospitals shall release ...
32.1-36 Reports by physicians and laboratory directors
A. Every physician practicing in this Commonwealth who shall diagnose or reasonably suspect that any patient of his has any disease required by the Board ...
32.1-36.1 Confidentiality of test for human immunodeficiency virus; civil penalty; individual action for dama...
A. The results of every test to determine infection with human immunodeficiency virus shall be confidential. Such information may only be released to the following ...
32.1-37 Reports by persons other than physicians
A. The person in charge of any medical care facility, shall immediately make or cause to be made a report of a disease required by ...
32.1-37.1 Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies
Upon transferring custody of any dead body to any person practicing funeral services or his agent, any hospital, nursing facility or nursing home, assisted living ...
32.1-37.2 Consent for testing for human immunodeficiency virus; condition on disclosure of test results; coun...
A. Prior to performing any test to determine infection with human immunodeficiency virus, a medical care provider shall inform the patient that the test is ...
32.1-38 Immunity from liability
Any person making a report or disclosure required or authorized by this chapter, including any voluntary reports submitted at the request of the Department of ...
32.1-39 Surveillance and investigation
A. The Board shall provide for the surveillance of and investigation into all preventable diseases and epidemics in this Commonwealth and into the means for ...
32.1-40 Authority of Commissioner to examine medical records
Every practitioner of the healing arts and every person in charge of any medical care facility shall permit the Commissioner or his designee to examine ...
32.1-41 Anonymity of patients and practitioners to be preserved in use of medical records
The Commissioner or his designee shall preserve the anonymity of each patient and practitioner of the healing arts whose records are examined pursuant to § ...
32.1-42 Emergency rules and regulations
The Board of Health may promulgate regulations and orders to meet any emergency or to prevent a potential emergency caused by a disease dangerous to ...
32.1-42.1 Administration and dispensing of necessary drugs and devices during a declared disaster or state o...
The Commissioner, pursuant to § 54.1-3408, may authorize persons who are not authorized by law to administer or dispense drugs or devices to administer or ...
32.1-43 Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc
The State Health Commissioner shall have the authority to require quarantine, isolation, immunization, decontamination, or treatment of any individual or group of individuals when he ...
32.1-44 Isolated or quarantined persons
The provisions of this chapter shall be construed to allow any isolated or quarantined person to choose his own treatment, whenever practicable and in the ...
32.1-45 Expense of treatment
Except as specifically provided by law, the provisions of this chapter shall not be construed as relieving any individual of the expense, if any, of ...
32.1-45.1 Deemed consent to testing and release of test results related to infection with human immunodeficie...
A. Whenever any health care provider, or any person employed by or under the direction and control of a health care provider, is directly exposed ...
32.1-45.2 Public safety employees; testing for blood-borne pathogens; procedure available for certain citizen...
A. If, in the course of employment, an employee of a public safety agency is involved in a possible exposure prone incident, the employee shall ...
32.1-45.3 Certain testing of gamete donors required; Board to establish testing protocol
Any person using donor gametes to treat patients for infertility by artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, gamete intrafallopian tube transfer, or zygote intrafallopian tube transfer ...
32.1-46 Immunization of patients against certain diseases
A. The parent, guardian or person standing in loco parentis of each child within this Commonwealth shall cause such child to be immunized in accordance ...
32.1-46.01 Virginia Immunization Information System
A. The Board of Health shall establish the Virginia Immunization Information System (VIIS), a statewide immunization registry that consolidates patient immunization histories from birth to ...
32.1-46.1 Board to establish protocol for identification of children with elevated blood-lead level...
The Board shall promulgate regulations establishing a protocol for the identification of children at risk for elevated blood-lead levels which shall (i) require blood-lead level ...
32.1-46.2 Certain testing or determination of low risk for elevated blood-lead levels required
In accordance with the protocol required by § 32.1-46.1 and the regulations of the Board of Health promulgated thereto, the parent, guardian or other person ...
32.1-47 Exclusion from school of children not immunized
Upon the identification of an outbreak, potential epidemic or epidemic of a vaccine-preventable disease in a public or private school, the Commissioner shall have the ...
32.1-48 Powers of Commissioner in epidemic
A. Nothing in this article shall preclude the Commissioner from requiring immediate immunization of all persons in case of an epidemic of any disease of ...
32.1-48.01 Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Appropriate precautions" means those specific measures which have been demonstrated by current scientific ...
32.1-48.02 Investigations of verified reports or medical evidence; counseling; outpatient and emergency treatm...
A. Upon receiving at least two verified reports or upon receiving medical evidence that any person who is reputed to know that he is infected ...
32.1-48.03 Petition for hearing; temporary detention
A. Upon receiving a verified report or upon receiving medical evidence that any person who has been counseled pursuant to § 32.1-48.02 has continued to ...
32.1-48.04 Isolation hearing; conditions; order for isolation; right to appeal
A. The isolation hearing shall be held within 48 hours of the execution of any temporary detention order issued or, if the 48-hour period terminates ...
32.1-48.05 Application of article; determination of exceptional circumstances; regulations; duties of the Stat...
A. Upon a determination by the State Health Commissioner that exceptional circumstances exist relating to one or more persons in the Commonwealth who are known ...
32.1-48.06 Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Affected area" means any part or the whole of the Commonwealth, which has ...
32.1-48.07 Conditions for invoking the provisions of this article
A. Prior to issuing any order of quarantine or any order of isolation pursuant to this article, the State Health Commissioner shall ensure that: 1. ...
32.1-48.08 Declaration of quarantine
A. The State Health Commissioner may declare a quarantine of any person or persons or any affected area after he finds that the quarantine is ...
32.1-48.09 Order of quarantine
A. The State Health Commissioner shall, prior to placing any person or persons under quarantine, issue an order of quarantine that shall: (i) identify the ...
32.1-48.010 Appeal of any order of quarantine
A. Any person or persons subject to an order of quarantine or a court-ordered extension of any such order pursuant to this article may file ...
32.1-48.011 Isolation may be ordered under certain exceptional circumstances; Commissioner authorized to requir...
A. Whenever the State Health Commissioner makes a determination of exceptional circumstances pursuant to § 32.1-48.05 and that the isolation procedures set forth in Article ...
32.1-48.012 Isolation order
A. The State Health Commissioner shall, prior to placing any person or persons in isolation, prepare a written order of isolation that shall: (i) identify ...
32.1-48.013 Appeal of any order of isolation
A. Any person or persons subject to an order of isolation or a court-ordered confirmation or extension of any such order pursuant to this article ...
32.1-48.013:1 Electronic filings as protection from communicable disease.
Notwithstanding Rule 1:17 of the Supreme Court of Virginia, a court in its discretion may permit the electronic or facsimile filing of a petition, notice, ...
32.1-48.014 Enforcement of orders of quarantine or isolation; penalties
A. Any person who does not comply with a validly issued order of quarantine or order of isolation issued or prepared pursuant to this article ...
32.1-48.015 Authorization to disclose health records
A. The provisions of this article are hereby declared to be necessary to prevent serious harm and serious threats to the health and safety of ...
32.1-48.016 Immunity from liability
Any person, including a person who serves in a Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) unit or on a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), who, in good ...
32.1-48.017 Use of public or private property or facilities
A. Upon the declaration by the Governor of a state of emergency pursuant to § 44-146.17, the State Health Commissioner, acting in concert with the ...
32.1-48.1 Regulation of State Health Commissioner declaring existence of rabies; display and publicatio...
Whenever the State Health Commissioner is informed that an outbreak of rabies has occurred in a county or city, he may, after consulting with the ...
32.1-48.2 Regulation of Commissioner requiring vaccination or inoculation of dogs
When the State Health Commissioner has declared that an outbreak of rabies exists in a county or city, he may adopt a regulation requiring all ...
32.1-48.3 Regulations of Commissioner covering local ordinances and requirements
If the governing body of the county or city in which the outbreak exists does not adopt, under §§ 3.1-796.93, 3.1-796.95, 3.1-796.96, 3.1-796.98 and subsection ...
32.1-48.4 Commissioner to cooperate with local governing bodies and agencies
The Commissioner shall, insofar as practicable, cooperate with the local governing body and agencies of the county or city involved to the end that a ...
32.1-49 Tuberculosis required to be reported
The Board shall include tuberculosis in the list of diseases provided for in § 32.1-35 which are required to be reported. (1979, c. 711.) ...
32.1-49.1 Definitions
"Active tuberculosis disease" means a communicable disease caused by an airborne microorganism and characterized by the presence of either (i) a specimen of sputum or ...
32.1-50 Examination of persons suspected of having active tuberculosis disease; reporting; report forms; re...
A. Any local health director may request any person having or reasonably suspected of having active tuberculosis disease to be examined immediately for the purpose ...
32.1-50.1 Treatment plan; submission of plan and mediation of disagreements; determination of cure
A. Each physician practicing in the Commonwealth who assumes responsibility for the treatment of a person for active tuberculosis as defined in this article and ...
32.1-50.2 Administration of tuberculin purified protein derivative by nurses; policies and guideline...
The Department shall issue policies and guidelines governing the possession and administration of tuberculin purified protein derivative (PPD) by registered nurses and licensed practical nurses ...
32.1-51 , 32.1-52
Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 958. ...
32.1-53 Facilities and contracts for treatment of tuberculosis patients
The Board may construct and operate hospitals and other facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis or enter into contractual arrangements with medical schools ...
32.1-54 Commissioner authorized to charge patients for care
When a tuberculosis patient is admitted to a facility operated by the Board or under contract with the Board, the Commissioner shall determine whether such ...
32.1-55 Definition
As used in this article, "venereal disease" includes syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum and any other sexually transmittable disease determined by the Board ...
32.1-55.1 Anonymous testing sites for human immunodeficiency virus
From such funds as are appropriated for this purpose, the Board of Health shall make available in all health services areas of the Commonwealth anonymous ...
32.1-56 Information to be provided patients
It shall be the duty of every physician or other person who examines or treats a person having a venereal disease to provide such person ...
32.1-57 Examination, testing and treatment; failure to comply with order of examination
A. A local health director may require any person suspected of being infected with any venereal disease to submit to examination, testing and treatment if ...
32.1-58 Persons convicted of certain crimes to be examined, tested and treated
Each person convicted of a violation of § 18.2-346 or § 18.2-361 shall be examined and tested for venereal disease and treated if necessary. (Code ...
32.1-59 Examination and treatment in certain institutions
Every person admitted to any state correctional institution and every person who is confined to a state hospital for the mentally ill or mentally retarded ...
32.1-60 Prenatal tests required
Every physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner attending a pregnant woman during gestation shall examine and test such woman for such venereal diseases as the ...
32.1-61 Definition
As used in this article, "ophthalmia neonatorum" means any inflammation, swelling or unusual redness in one or both eyes of any infant, either apart from ...
32.1-62 Procedure upon infant's birth
In order to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum, the physician, nurse or midwife in charge of the delivery of a baby or, if none, the first attending ...
32.1-63 Duty of physician, midwife or nurse noting ophthalmia neonatorum
It shall be the duty of any physician, midwife or nurse who notes ophthalmia neonatorum within two weeks after the birth of an infant to ...
32.1-64 Duty of Board to provide for treatment
The Board shall provide for the gratuitous distribution of the necessary treatment approved by it for ophthalmia neonatorum, together with proper directions for the use ...
32.1-64.1 Virginia Hearing Impairment Identification and Monitoring System
A. In order to identify hearing loss at the earliest possible age among newborns and to provide early intervention for all infants so identified as ...
32.1-64.2 Confidentiality of records; publication; Commissioner required to contact parents, physicians, and ...
The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is submitted pursuant to § 32.1-64.1 shall keep such information confidential. No publication of information shall ...
32.1-65 Certain newborn screening required
In order to prevent mental retardation and permanent disability or death, every infant who is born in the Commonwealth shall be subjected to screening tests ...
32.1-66 Commissioner to notify physicians; reports to Commissioner
Whenever a newborn screening test result indicates suspicion of any condition pursuant to § 32.1-65, the Commissioner shall notify forthwith the attending physician and shall ...
32.1-67 Duty of Board for follow-up and referral protocols; regulations
Infants identified with any condition for which newborn screening is conducted pursuant to § 32.1-65 shall be eligible for the services of the Children with ...
32.1-67.1 Confidentiality of records; prohibition of discrimination
The results of the newborn screening services conducted pursuant to this article may be used for research and collective statistical purposes. No publication of information, ...
32.1-68 Commissioner to establish screening program; review by Board; program to include education and post...
A. The Commissioner, in cooperation with local health directors, shall establish a voluntary program for the screening of individuals for the disease of sickle cell ...
32.1-69 Records confidential; disclosure of results of screening
The results of any particular screening program shall be sent to the physician of the person tested, if known, and either to the parents when ...
32.1-69.1 Virginia Congenital Anomalies Reporting and Education System
A. In order to collect data to evaluate the possible causes of birth defects, improve the diagnosis and treatment of birth defects and establish a ...
32.1-69.1:1 Dissemination of information regarding birth defects
The Commissioner shall develop a publication concerning the role of folic acid in the prevention of birth defects for distribution to physicians, hospitals and other ...
32.1-69.2 Confidentiality of records; publication; authority of Commissioner to contact parents and physician...
The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is submitted pursuant to § 32.1-69.1 shall keep such information confidential. For the purpose of only ...
32.1-69.3 Virginia Cord Blood Bank Initiative established
A. There is hereby established the Virginia Cord Blood Bank Initiative (hereinafter referred to as the Initiative) as a public resource for the treatment of ...
32.1-70 Information from hospitals, clinics, certain laboratories and physicians supplied to Commissioner; ...
A. Each hospital, clinic and independent pathology laboratory shall make available to the Commissioner or his agents information on patients having malignant tumors or cancers. ...
32.1-70.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1998, c. 315. ...
32.1-70.2 Collection of cancer case information by the Commissioner
A. Using such funds as may be appropriated therefor, the Commissioner or his designee may perform on-site data collection of the records of patients having ...
32.1-71 Confidential nature of information supplied; publication; reciprocal data-sharing agreement...
A. The Commissioner and all persons to whom information is submitted in accordance with § 32.1-70 shall keep such information confidential. Except as authorized by ...
32.1-71.01 Penalties for unauthorized use of statewide cancer registry
In addition to the remedies provided in § 32.1-27, any person who uses, discloses or releases data maintained in the statewide cancer registry in violation ...
32.1-71.02 Notification of cancer patients of statewide cancer registry reporting
A. Any physician diagnosing a malignant tumor or cancer shall, at such time and in such manner as considered appropriate by such physician, notify each ...
32.1-71.1 through 32.1-71.4
Repealed by Acts 1994, c. 109. ...
32.1-72 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1992, cc. 747 and 873. ...
32.1-73 Failure to comply with provisions; grounds for revocation of license or permit
The failure of any physician, nurse or midwife to comply with the provisions of § 32.1-60, § 32.1-62 or § 32.1-65 shall, in addition to ...
32.1-73.1 through 32.1-73.4
Repealed by Acts 2002, c. 60. ...
32.1-73.5 Comprehensive statewide asthma management plan
A. Using such funds as may be appropriated therefor, the Commissioner shall develop, maintain, and revise biennially a written comprehensive state plan for (i) reducing ...
32.1-73.6 Implementation of state asthma management programs
A. Using such funds as may be appropriated for this purpose, the Commissioner shall implement programs to meet the objectives of the statewide asthma management ...
32.1-73.7 Department to be lead agency for youth suicide prevention
With such funds as may be appropriated for this purpose, the Department, in consultation with the Department of Education, the Department of Mental Health, Mental ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009