Disease Reporting for Health Professionals

How to report novel coronavirus (COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2 virus) testing, infections, and deaths in Kansas

• Disease Reporting Requirements
• Kansas Notifiable Diseases List and Reporting Forms
• Kansas Notifiable Diseases List
• Kansas Notifiable Disease Reporting Form
• Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (e.g., Carbapenem-Resistance, Candida auris, Vancomycin Intermediate/Resistant Staph. aureus)
• MDRO Reporting Form (CRE, Candida, VRSA)
• Candida auris Submission Guidelines
• Carbapenem-Resistant Organism Submission Guidelines 01/2020
• Interfacility Multidrug-Resistant Organism Transfer Form
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Reporting Form
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Report Form
• Varicella (Chickenpox) Report Form
• Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program Report Forms
• Hospital Report Form
• Prenatal Care Provider Report Form
• Pediatric Care Provider Report Form
• Contact Information
• Suspected Act of Terrorism
• Laboratory Reporting Requirements

Disease Reporting Requirements

Health care providers and laboratories are required to notify KDHE regarding patients with suspected or confirmed reportable diseases.  The list of reportable diseases is defined by Kansas statute (K.S.A. 65-118, 65-128 and 65-6001 through 65-6007; and by K.A.R. 28-1-2 and 28-1-18).

Special Reporting Requirements

Notifiable Diseases List and Reporting Forms

• Kansas Notifiable Diseases List
• Kansas Notifiable Disease Reporting Form
  • Special form for reporting Varicella (chickenpox)
  • Special form for reporting Perinatal Hepatitis B
  • Special form for reporting Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Contact Information

Immediate telephone reports, when required, should be made to KDHE at: 877-427-7317.

Fax non-urgent reports to KDHE at: 877-427-7318.

Mail non-urgent reports to:

Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Response
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 075
Topeka, KS 66612-1274

Suspected Act of Terrorism 

Any health care provider suspecting even a single case of a disease caused by a bioterrorism agent should immediately contact KDHE at 877-427-7317. The list of potential bioterrorism agents includes: anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, plague, tularemia, Q fever, smallpox, viral hemorrhagic fever, and "any other infectious or toxic agent that can be intentionally dispersed in the environment."

Laboratory Reporting Requirements

Bacterial isolates, when required, should be sent to:

Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Division of Health and Environmental Laboratories
6810 SE Dwight Street
Topeka, KS 66620