Local Health Department Resource Page

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Long-term care facilities

HIPAA

Model Standing Orders for Vaccines

Model Standing Orders for     Prophylaxis of Mening Case Contacts

Model Standing Orders for other stuff

Welcome to the LHD resource page. We hope to provide quick access to useful information for local health departments. If you have a suggestion for this page, please email us at ohd.acdp@state.or.us.

On this page:

• Quick web links
  • Oregon
  • Elsewhere

• DHS Health Services press releases
  
  
• Acute and communicable disease press releases
  
  
• Administrative rules for disease reporting
  
  
• Antimicrobial resistance and Oregon's campaign for judicious use of antibiotics
  
  
• Courses in Communicable Disease Investigation and Control
  
  
• Reporting Sick and Dead Birds (pdf)
  
  
• Oregon bioterrorism/public health preparedness links
  
  
  • Bioterrorism preparedness surveillance and epidemiology
    
    
  • Training and education links
    
    
  • Risk communication and public health information
    
    
  • Public health preparedness planning home page
  
  
  
• County Health Dept. Directory
  
  
• Department of Education School Health Services Manual
  
  
• Disease reporting home page
  
  
• Foodborne outbreak investigation resources
  
  
• Gastroenteritis outbreak investigation resources
  
  
  • Nursing homes and similar settings
    
    
  • Outbreak classifications by etiology (pdf)
    
    
• Outbreak data: Total outbreaks (GI and non-GI) by 2002-2007 PDF  
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• Guidelines for post-exposure exclusion of varicella susceptibles in Oregon schools and daycare centers
  
  
• HIPAA
  
  
• Hepatitis C Statewide Planning Group
  
  
• Isolation and Quarantine voluntary home confinement agreement
  
  
  • Isolation and Quarantine procedures You will need a Collaborator or Administrator license to access these on the secure HAN site.
    
    
• NEDSS: National Electronic Data Surveillance System
  
  
• OHS gateway to other health agencies and organizations: search and link to state and federal government, foundation, and non-profit health-related sites
  
  
• OHS and US government website list: hyperlinked PDF document
  
  
• Oregon hospital website list: hyperlinked PDF document
  
  
• OR-Epi conference presentations
  
  
  
• Other references for local health departments
  
  

• CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention home page
  
  
• CDC en español
  
  
• Disease fact sheets in Spanish (thanks to the Virginia Health Dept.)