Central Michigan District Health Department’s Communicable Disease Control Program is committed to preventing the occurrence and spread of communicable disease within the community. Program activities include:

• Working with hospitals, medical providers, schools, daycares, universities, other Local Health Departments, and the Michigan Department of Community Health to investigate and control the spread of communicable diseases 

• Providing information to the public to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases

• Implementing disease control strategies, such as school based  school-based immunization clinics within the community

• Analyzing reported diseases to measure changes in disease occurrence or trends and to detect and respond to outbreaks

 

Communicable Disease Reporting Procedures

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• Michigan CD Rules (2023 Brick Book)

• Reportable Diseases in Michigan

• Why reporting is important

• Who should report?

• What to report?

• How to report a communicable disease?

  • School/Child Care reporting

  • Medical Provider Reporting

• Michigan Disease Surveillance System

• Communicable Disease Information

• CMDHD CD Data

• Web Links

 

Why reporting is important

Information obtained from communicable disease investigations is systematically gathered, analyzed, and disseminated to health care professionals and the public. Health officials are continually learning more about diseases, specifically:

• How organisms change

• Factors which influence the transmission of disease

• Evaluation of treatment or control measures for diseases

• How to prevent disease transmission

 

Who should report?

The Michigan Communicable Disease Rules, promulgated under the authority conferred on the Department of Community Health by section 5111 of Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended, being 333.5111 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, clearly designates communicable disease reporting responsibilities to the following individuals:

• Physicians

• Laboratories

• Infection Control Practitioners

• Epidemiologists

• Dentists

• Pharmacists

• Physician's Assistants

• Schools

• Daycares

• Camps

• Any health professional

 

What to report?

To report a communicable disease, please include the following information:

• The name of the person

• Pertinent contact information for the patient, including the address, phone number

• The disease

• The name of the person making the report

• List of Reportable Diseases

• Reportable Diseases in Michigan

 

How to report a communicable disease?

 

To report a communicable disease, please call your local health department branch office, and ask to speak to a Personal Health Supervisor or Communicable Disease Public Health Nurse

 

If you are a Medical Provider, Infection Control Practitioner, or Laboratory and you wish to report a communicable disease after regular business hours or on the weekend, please contact the Communicable Disease Supervisor at this number: 989-289-6445.

 

School / Child Care Reporting

• Communicable Disease Reporting Form for Schools

• Communicable Disease Reporting Form for Daycares & Preschools

• School Communicable Disease Reporting Handbook

  • Student Absences Letter (CMDHD)

  • Managing Communicable Diseases in Schools (MDHHS)

  • Influenza Guidance for Schools (CMDHD)

  • Michigan Childcare Immunization Requirements (MDHHS)

  • Michigan School Immunization Requirements (MDHHS)

 

Medical Provider Reporting 

• ​CMDHD Communicable Disease Reporting Form

• 2023 Healthcare Professional's Guide to Disease Reporting in Michigan (MDHHS Brick Book)

• Influenza Reporting Form

• Mandatory Reporting Communicable Disease Form for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea

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Michigan Disease Surveillance System

 

Electronic reporting via the Michigan Disease Surveillance System is available for medical providers. If you are a medical provider who frequently reports communicable diseases and is interested in obtaining access to the Michigan Disease Surveillance System for reporting purposes, please contact 989-773-5921 x 1449 for additional information. 

 

 

Communicable Disease Information

• Reportable Diseases in Michigan

• CD Fact Sheets

• Managing Communicable Diseases in Schools

• Disease Information

  • Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

  • 2019 Novel Coronavirus, Wuhan, China

  • Bed Bugs (MDHHS)

  • Chickenpox (Varicella)

    • Medical Providers

      • CDC Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Chapter 17 (Varicella)

      • Vaccine-Preventable Disease Investigation Guidelines - Varicella (MDHHS)

  • Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)

  • Ebola

  • Head Lice (MDHHS)

  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

  • Lyme Disease

    • ​Families and Individuals

      • ​Lyme Disease (MDHHS)

    • ​Medical Providers

      • ​Information on Lyme Disease for Healthcare Providers (MDHHS)

  • ​Measles

  • MRSA

  • Mumps

  • Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS - CoV)

  • Norovirus

  • Pertussis

  • Rabies

  • Scabies (MDHHS)

  • Seasonal Flu

  • Swine Influenza

  • Tuberculosis (TB)

 

Communicable Disease Data

 

CMDHD Five years historical CD data (2005-2019)

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• CMDHD Five Years historical CD data (2015-2019)

• CMDHD Five Years historical CD data (2014-2018)

• CMDHD Five years historical CD data (2009-2013)

• CMDHD Five years historical CD data (2005-2009)

• Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Weekly Surveillance Report

 

Web links

 

• Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease, Associated with Animals in Public Settings, 2017

• National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases from CDC

• National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) from CDC

• National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STI, and TB Prevention from CDC

• http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdiseases

• http://www.cdc.gov/tb/

• Communicable Disease Information and Resources (MDHHS)

• Tuberculosis (MDHHS)

• http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx

• Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Michigan – Annual Summaries

 

Please call or visit your local CMDHD Branch office for more information:

• Arenac County: 989-846-6541

• Clare County: 989-539-6731

• Gladwin County: 989-426-9431

• Isabella County: 989-773-5921

• Osceola County: 231-832-5532

• Roscommon County: 989-366-9166

CMDHD Five Years historical CD data (2014-2018)