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NORTH CAROLINA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESChapter 48 - LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACCREDITATIONSubchapter B - LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACCREDITATION STANDARDS
Section .0300 - DIAGNOSE AND INVESTIGATE HEALTH PROBLEMS AND HEALTH HAZARDS IN THE COMMUNITY
Section 48B .0302 - BENCHMARK 5

10A N.C. Admin. Code 48B.0302

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Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 9, November 1, 2024
Section 48B .0302 - BENCHMARK 5
(a) Benchmark: The local health department shall establish and maintain a system to receive and provide health alerts and public health response for health care providers, emergency responders, and communities on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis.
(b) Activities:
(1) The local health department shall have a system in place to receive reports of communicable diseases or other public health threats on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis.
(2) The local health department shall use two or more methods to disseminate health alerts and other advisories on real or potential disease threats, as they occur, to the local medical community, including pharmacists and veterinarians.
(3) The local health department shall provide health alerts or advisories to the news media to inform the public when disease outbreaks or other potential public health threats occur.

10A N.C. Admin. Code 48B .0302

Authority G.S. 130A-34.1;
Temporary Adoption Eff. January 1, 2006;
Eff. October 1, 2006;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. January 5, 2016.
Authority G.S. 130A-34.1;
Temporary Adoption Eff. January 1, 2006;
Eff. October 1, 2006.