Reportable and Notifiable Diseases

If you need to contact MCHD related to a notifiable or reportable condition, you may contact: 

Amber Reed
MCHD Public Health Nurse            or             MCHD Administrator
(765) 364-7255                                                  (765) 364-6440

In urgent circumstances you may contact the Indiana State Department of Health after hours emergency answering service at 317-233-1325.

Surveillance of reportable disease is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of health data about cases that meet the case definitions for infectious conditions as published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  You may review the Summary of Notifiable Infectious Diseases and Conditions — United States, 2013.

Communicable Disease Reporting is managed by the Public Health Nurse.  If you have been contacted regarding a potential exposure please call 765-364-7255 and speak with the nurse.