Reporting Diseases

Orange County List of Reportable Diseases (2020) ( Download PDF)

California Code of Regulations, Title 17, Section 2500, mandates that certain communicable and non-communicable diseases/conditions be reported to the local health department using specified methods and time frames. The List of Reportable Diseases, which summarizes disease reporting requirements, may be downloaded from this website and freely copied.

It is important that you report notifiable diseases/conditions to the county where the patient resides so that appropriate follow-up can occur. The Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) form may be used to report notifiable diseases/conditions to Orange County Public Health.

For more information on reporting, please see the List of Laboratory Reportable Diseases (in California).

Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR)

The Orange County Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) form, used by providers to report any reportable disease or condition, has been revised to reflect updates in reporting procedures following changes at the state public health department level. This revision is the first major revision of the CMR for many years.

There are now three versions of the CMR form:

• Version CMR-CD, for reporting most conditions including sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and the viral hepatitides ( Download PDF) (7/2020);
• Version CMR-TB, only for reporting tuberculosis ( Download PDF) (10/2019);
• Version CMR-COVID-19, only for reporting COVID-19  ( Download PDF) (12/2020);  and
• Version CMR-DMV, only for reporting to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) conditions which may impair a person's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely ( Download PDF) (10/2019).

It is important that you report notifiable diseases/conditions to the county where the patient resides so that appropriate follow-up can occur. For diseases/conditions that are reportable and specified methods and time frames for reporting, please see the List of Reportable Diseases.

Reporting Other Than Communicable Diseases

Subject	Agency	Phone	Fax
Animal bites	OC Animal Care	(714) 935-6848	(714) 259-1089
Cancer	SDSU/UCSD Cancer Center Comprehensive Partnership	(858) 822-6762	(858) 822-2399
Child abuse	Child abuse registry http://ssa.ocgov.com/	(800) 207-4464	(714) 938-0289
Domestic violence	Report to local law enforcement (police or sheriff) http://www.ndvh.org/	National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
Elder abuse	Adult protective services registry	(800) 451-5155	Verbal reports only
Foodborne Illness	Environmental Health	(714) 433-6000	(714) 433-6423
Lead poisoning (Lead levels above reference value) (Blood lead levels of >5 mcg/dL)	Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program	(714) 567-6220	(714) 834-7702
Pesticide exposure	County Agricultural Commissioner or After hours and on week-ends, physicians may call Epidemiology & Assessment and follow the directions to contact the on-call public health official	(714) 955-0100 (714) 834-8180	(714) 921-2713
Disorders characterized by lapses of consciousness	Epidemiology & Assessment (Reports will be forwarded to the Department of Motor Vehicles)	(714) 834-8180	(714) 564-4050

Last Reviewed 2/22/2021