North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 48 - LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACCREDITATION
Subchapter B - LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACCREDITATION STANDARDS
Section .0300 - DIAGNOSE AND INVESTIGATE HEALTH PROBLEMS AND HEALTH HAZARDS IN THE COMMUNITY
Section 48B .0302 - BENCHMARK 5
Universal Citation: 10A NC Admin Code 48B .0302
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) Benchmark: The local health department shall establish and maintain a system to receive and provide health alerts and public health response for health care providers, emergency responders, and communities on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis.
(b) Activities:
(1) The local health department shall have a
system in place to receive reports of communicable diseases or other public
health threats on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis.
(2) The local health department shall use two
or more methods to disseminate health alerts and other advisories on real or
potential disease threats, as they occur, to the local medical community,
including pharmacists and veterinarians.
(3) The local health department shall provide
health alerts or advisories to the news media to inform the public when disease
outbreaks or other potential public health threats occur.
Authority
G.S.
130A-34.1;
Temporary Adoption
Eff. January 1, 2006;
Eff. October 1, 2006;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. January 5,
2016.
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