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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 4-202 Health care facilities.">
  <section prefix="§" num="4-202" heading="Health care facilities.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Reporting officer.">The chief administrative officer of each hospital, related institution, clinic, pharmacy, or other health care facility must appoint an individual from the facility’s full-time staff to serve as the facility’s reporting officer.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Duty to report.">The reporting officer must report to the Commissioner every confirmed or suspected diagnosis of any disease or condition that the Commissioner specifies by rule or regulation adopted under &lt;cite data-path="|health|§2-106"&gt;§ 2-106 {“Rules and regulations”} of this article&lt;/cite&gt; for purposes of this section.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="When to report.">Except for specified diseases or conditions that the Commissioner or State law requires to be reported on a more timely basis, the report must be made within 48 hours for all patients who have been:<para num="(1)">newly admitted to the facility;</para>
      <para num="(2)">admitted to an isolation ward;</para>
      <para num="(3)">treated on an emergency or out-patient basis; or</para>
      <para num="(4)">discharged without having been previously reported.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Contents of report.">In addition to the information required by &lt;cite data-path="|health|§4-102"&gt;§ 4-102 {“Form and contents of reports”} of this title&lt;/cite&gt;, the report must contain the following information:<para num="(1)">the identity of the disease or condition; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">the date of its onset.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Nature of report.">The reporting of a disease or condition under this section does not absolve the attending physician of the duty to report the same disease or condition under &lt;cite data-path="|health|§4-201"&gt;§ 4-201 {“Physicians”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §205(a) - (d), (e)(2nd cl.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Text Conformed 03/10/21</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">Text of subsection (b) conformed to include express cross-reference to § 2-106.  Cf. Editor’s Note to that section.</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
