Minnesota Administrative Code

4605.7010 PURPOSE. This chapter establishes a process and assigns responsibility for reporting, investigating, and controlling disease. Statutory Authority: MS s 144.05; 144.072; 144.0742; 144.12; 144.122 History: 9 SR 2584; 20 SR 858 Published Electronically: September 15, 2005

4605.7020 APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies to cases, suspected cases, carriers, and deaths from communicable diseases and syndromes, reporting of disease, and disease control. Statutory Authority: MS s 144.05; 144.072; 144.0742; 144.12; 144.122 History: 9 SR 2584; 20 SR 858; 3…

4605.7030 PERSONS REQUIRED TO REPORT DISEASE. Subpart 1. Health care practitioner. When attending a case, suspected case, carrier, or death from any of the diseases in part 4605.7040 or a pregnancy under part 4605.7044, a health care practitioner shall report to the commissioner …

4605.7040 DISEASE AND REPORTS; CLINICAL MATERIALS SUBMISSIONS. Persons required to report under this chapter shall report to the commissioner cases, suspected cases, carriers, and deaths due to the following diseases and infectious agents. When submission of clinical materials is…

4605.7041 CLINICAL MATERIALS SUBMISSION MODIFICATION. Subpart 1. Modification due to circumstances or situations. The commissioner may modify clinical materials submission requirements under part 4605.7040 if the commissioner determines that one of the following circumstances exi…

4605.7044 CHRONIC INFECTIONS; PERINATALLY TRANSMISSIBLE. Pregnancy in a person chronically infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), or other reportable perinatally transmissible dise…

4605.7046 SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE. Subpart 1. Disease selection. The commissioner may select an infectious disease or syndrome for sentinel surveillance, other than a disease or syndrome for which general reporting is required under this chapter, if the commissioner determines that…

4605.7050 UNUSUAL CASE INCIDENCE. Subpart 1. Cases, suspected cases, or increased incidence. Any pattern of cases, suspected cases, or increased incidence of any illness beyond the expected number of cases in a given period, which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent,…

4605.7060 CASES, SUSPECTED CASES, CARRIERS, AND DEATHS DUE TO DISEASE ACQUIRED OUTSIDE THE STATE. A health care practitioner shall report to the commissioner cases, suspected cases, carriers, and deaths due to any infectious disease that a health care practitioner determines has …

4605.7070 OTHER REPORTS. It shall be the duty of any person in charge of any institution, school, child care facility or camp, or any other person having knowledge of any disease which may threaten the public health, to report immediately the name and date of birth of a person or…

4605.7075 TUBERCULOSIS; SPECIAL REPORTING. A health care practitioner or other person required to report under part 4605.7030 or Minnesota Statutes, section 144.4804, shall within one working day report to the commissioner of health the name, address, and essential facts of the c…

4605.7080 NEW DISEASES AND SYNDROMES; REPORTING AND SUBMISSIONS. Subpart 1. Disease selection. The commissioner shall, by public notice, require reporting of newly recognized or emerging diseases and syndromes suspected to be of infectious origin or previously controlled or eradi…

4605.7090 DISEASE REPORT INFORMATION. Reports that are required under this chapter shall contain as much of the following information as is known: A. disease (whether a case, suspected case, carrier, or death); B. date of first symptoms; C. primary signs and symptoms; D. patient:…

4605.7100 REPORTS TO COMMUNITY HEALTH BOARDS. Upon receipt of information or other knowledge of a case, suspected case, carrier, or death or any disease or report required under this chapter, the community health board as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 145A.02, subdivisio…

4605.7200 RECORDS OF DISEASE. The commissioner shall maintain records of reports of cases, suspected cases, carriers, and deaths for the disease reports required in this section and shall prepare statewide summary information which shall be made available for each community healt…

4605.7300 COPIES OF DISEASE REPORTS. Community health boards operating under agreements in part 4735.0110, subpart 2, shall be forwarded copies of all disease reports and information received by the commissioner which pertain to the jurisdiction and biennial agreement between the…

4605.7400 PREVENTION OF DISEASE SPREAD. Subpart 1. Isolation. The health care practitioner attending a case, suspected case, or carrier (or in the absence of a health care practitioner, the commissioner) shall make certain that isolation precautions are taken to prevent spread of…

4605.7500 DISEASE INVESTIGATIONS. The commissioner shall investigate the occurrence of cases, suspected cases, or carriers of reportable diseases or unusual disease occurrences in a public or private place for the purpose of verification of the existence of disease, ascertaining …

4605.7700 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPECIAL REPORTS. The following special reports in items A to D shall be given by health care practitioners to the commissioner. A. Notwithstanding any previous report, a health care practitioner who has reason to believe that a person havin…

4605.7800 HEALTH EDUCATION. Health care providers working with patients having chlamydial infection, syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, or human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV), including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), shall tell the patients how to prevent the sp…

4605.7900 OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. Subpart 1. Definition. Any condition of the eye or eyes of an infant, independent of the nature of the infection, in which there is any inflammation, swelling, or redness in either one or both eyes of any such infant, either apart from, or togethe…

4606.3300 PURPOSE. The purpose of parts 4606.3300 to 4606.3309 is to establish a process and assign responsibility for: A. collecting data on the occurrence and outcomes of cancer in the state; and B. investigating the occurrence of cancer. Statutory Authority: MS s 144.05; 144.6…

4606.3301 SCOPE. Parts 4606.3300 to 4606.3309 apply generally to the diagnosis of, reporting of, and epidemiologic studies of cancer; and scientific research on the treatment and prevention of cancer. Statutory Authority: MS s 144.05; 144.671 to 144.69 History: 13 SR 528 Publishe…

4606.3302 DEFINITIONS. Subpart 1. Abstract. "Abstract" means an electronic record, in a format specified by the commissioner, which contains the information required in part 4606.3304. Subp. 2. Attending physician. "Attending physician" means the physician who provides primary cl…

4606.3303 COMPREHENSIVE REPORTS OF CANCER. Subpart 1. Cancer registries. Cancer registries shall forward by first class mail, by messenger, or by electronic means, case reports to the commissioner within 15 working days of the date the patient's record in the cancer registry was …

4606.3304 REPORTS. Subpart 1. Case information. Reports of case information that are required in part 4606.3303 must consist of source documents and contain as much of the following information as is known: A. patient identifiers, including Social Security number, and demographic…

4606.3305 DATA SUBMISSION. Subpart 1. Completeness. Every case report shall include, at a minimum, legible source documents or completed abstracts that must contain the data required in part 4606.3304. Electronic abstracts must be submitted in the format required by the commissio…

4606.3306 PHYSICIAN CONSENT. Subpart 1. Attempt to obtain consent. When undertaking epidemiologic studies, the commissioner shall attempt to locate and obtain the consent of the attending physician as identified in the case report before approaching any case named in a report or …

4606.3307 AUTHORIZED RESEARCH. Subpart 1. Criteria. The commissioner of health may enter into contracts to conduct research, using data collected pursuant to parts 4606.3300 to 4606.3309, with public and private research agencies or with individuals who satisfy all of the followi…

4606.3308 CONTRACTS. Subpart 1. Contracts. The commissioner may, upon receipt of an application described in this section, contract with any institution or reporting entity in compliance with part 4606.3304 for the following purposes: A. providing more efficient, expedient, and c…

4606.3309 CHARGES FOR DATA. The commissioner may charge fees for out-of-pocket expenses including hourly employee wages, employee expenses, electronic data processing costs, duplicating, and clerical charges incurred as a result of requests by agencies for summary data compilatio…

4610.0200 [Renumbered 4610.0410] Published Electronically: September 19, 2007

4610.0300 [Renumbered 4610.0420] Published Electronically: September 19, 2007

4610.2100 [Renumbered 4610.2210] Published Electronically: September 19, 2007

4615.0750 PURPOSE AND SCOPE. The purpose and scope of parts 4615.0750 to 4615.0760 is to describe the responsibilities of the Minnesota Department of Health to assure that persons diagnosed as having hemoglobinopathy, phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and/or congenit…

4615.0755 DEFINITIONS. Subpart 1. Scope. For the purpose of parts 4615.0750 to 4615.0760, the following terms have the meanings given them. Subp. 2. Department. "Department" means the Minnesota Department of Health. Subp. 3. Follow-up services. "Follow-up services" means assistin…

4615.0760 RESPONSIBILITIES OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Subpart 1. Treatment control test specimen kits. The department shall develop and make available treatment control test specimen kits to physicians and patients as medically indicated to effectively monitor treatment, and provid…

4615.0800 PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING OF MATERNAL DEATHS. Any death associated with pregnancy, including abortion and extrauterine pregnancy, or the puerperium for a period of three months postpartum, whether or not it is the actual cause of death, shall be reported by mail within t…

4615.3400 DEFINITIONS. Subpart 1. Scope. The applicable definitions to these rules printed herein from MHD 342 (7 MCAR Section 1.342) are as follows. Subp. 2. Abortion. The term "abortion" is not used in these regulations, since it also applies to spontaneous early terminations o…

4615.3500 INTERNAL RECORDS OF THE AMBULATORY FACILITY. The pregnancy termination facility shall keep a signed consent form of each patient undergoing a pregnancy termination procedure. Statutory Authority: MS s 145.413 Published Electronically: October 11, 2007

4617.0002 DEFINITIONS. Subpart 1. Scope. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the meanings given them in this part. Subp. 2. Agency. "Agency" means: A. a public or private, nonprofit health or human service agency; B. a community health board established pursuant to …

4617.0005 NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF WIC PROGRAM FUNDS. At least once every five years beginning January 1, 2006, the commissioner shall send a notice of availability of WIC program funds to each agency that has asked the commissioner for the notice and to other interested agencie…

4617.0010 APPLICATION FOR WIC PROGRAM FUNDS. An agency shall apply for WIC program funds according to items A to E. A. An agency shall notify the commissioner in writing that it intends to apply for WIC program funds. The agency must submit the notice of intent on a format and by…

4617.0015 AGENCY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA. To be eligible for WIC program funds an agency must be able to: A. meet the definition of local agency under Code of Federal Regulations, title 7, section 246.2, as amended; B. comply with all requirements for local agencies under Code of Fe…

4617.0020 AGENCY APPLICATION REVIEW AND APPROVAL. Subpart 1. General procedure. The commissioner shall authorize an agency to administer the WIC program as a local agency by following in order the steps in subparts 2 to 9a. Subp. 2. Agency application; review. The commissioner sh…

4617.0025 DISQUALIFICATION. The commissioner shall stop providing WIC program funds to a local agency if the local agency does not comply with parts 4617.0002 to 4617.0171 or with Code of Federal Regulations, title 7, part 246, as amended. A local agency shall reimburse the commi…