Alabama Administrative Code
Title 420 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Chapter 420-4-3 - INFECTED HEALTH CARE WORKERS
Section 420-4-3-.04 - Reporting

(a) Any IHCW who performs invasive procedures as defined herein shall notify the designee of the SHO by sending a letter marked "Personal and Confidential" to the Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease, Alabama Department of Public Health, 201 Monroe Street, Suite 1400, P.O. Box 303017, Montgomery, Alabama 36130-3017, within 30 days of the time he or she is aware of his or her infection. The letter shall include at a minimum the IHCW's name and diagnosis and information as to how he or she can be contacted. The IHCW shall subsequently make available to the Department all requested documents or records three years old or less and shall cooperate fully with the Department in the investigation. It shall be grounds for revocation, suspension, or restriction of the professional license of any licensed IHCW who shall be found to perform invasive procedures and shall have failed to notify the SHO.

(b) Any physician providing care to any IHCW shall notify the SHO of the infected status of his patient within seven (7) days of the time he or she diagnoses or provides such care. Such notification shall be on forms as designated by the Department and sent to the designee of the SHO by marking the envelope "Personal and Confidential" and sending it to the Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease. (See report form, Appendix 1, which is attached.) Further, the physician shall make available to the Department all requested documents or records three years old or less and shall cooperate fully with the Department in the investigation.

(c) After reporting to the SHO, no IHCW shall perform or assist in performance of an invasive procedure, as defined in (1) above, until after an internal Department review by Department staff and written notification from the SHO regarding any necessary practice modification.