The Colorado Board of Health updates the Communicable Disease regulations (6 CCR 1009-1) and Environmental Health regulations (6 CCR 1009-1) periodically to reflect changes in public health priorities for disease surveillance. Reportable conditions may be added, removed or modified. The communicable disease regulations have been revised this year and additions and modifications became effective on July 15, 2018.
Major changes include:
- Addition of all suspect Candida auris statewide
- Addition Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae (E.coli and Klebsiella
species) for Boulder County only.
- Reporting of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae has been modified to include six additional genera.
- Suspect outbreaks are now reportable by laboratories as well as healthcare providers.
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) bacteremia by certain healthcare facilities has also been added.
This change requires facilities that are already reporting these data to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to confer rights to CDPHE to allow the Department to have access to these data.
A complete and updated list of reportable conditions with information on how to report and a list of conditions to be reported through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NSHN) are attached to this message and can be accessed here: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/report-a-disease
For further information:
For concerns or questions about disease reporting, please contact the CDPHE Integrated Disease Reporting Program (IDRP) staff at 303-692-2700 or email cdphe_idrp@state.co.us.
Colorado Reportable Conditions effective July 15, 2018
Reportable Conditions Posters
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