Section 697.210  Reporting Requirements

a)         Local Health Authorities which receive HIV/AIDS reports from physicians, hospitals or laboratories shall report to the HIV/AIDS Registry System within seven days after receiving the AIDS report.  Prior to forwarding an HIV report to the Department, a Local Health Authority shall replace an individual's name with a unique identifier derived by methodology specified by the Department. (See Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Code, 77 Ill. Adm. Code 693.30.)

b)         The report shall be provided upon the "HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report", as modified by the Department, a form prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, OMB No. 0920-0009 and supplied by the Department.

c)         The Department requests, but does not require, hospitals maintained by the Federal Government or other governmental agencies within the United States to report HIV/AIDS case information concerning present or past residents of Illinois, using the "HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report", as modified by the Department.

(Source:  Amended at 22 Ill. Reg. 21994, effective December 9, 1998)