Each physician, dentist, nurse, medical examiner, hospital administrator, nursing home administrator, laboratory director, school principal, and day care center director shall be responsible to report cases or suspected cases of notifiable diseases and health conditions. The report shall contain such information, and be delivered in such a manner, as may be provided for from time to time by the rules of the State Board of Health. All medical and statistical information and reports required by this article shall be confidential and shall not be subject to the inspection, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any court, except proceedings brought under this article to compel the examination, testing, commitment or quarantine of any person or upon the written consent of the patient, or if the patient is a minor, his parent or legal guardian. Any physician or other person making any report required by this article or participating in any judicial proceeding resulting therefrom shall, in so doing, be immune from any civil or criminal liability, that might otherwise be incurred or imposed. No provision of this section shall be interpreted to prevent the publication of statistical reports or other summaries provided that said reports or summaries do not identify individual persons.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.
Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.
Chapter 11A - Reporting Notifiable Diseases.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 22-11A-1 - State Board of Health to Designate Notifiable Diseases and Health Conditions.
Section 22-11A-3 - Action of Health Officer Upon Being Notified of Diseases; Quarantine.
Section 22-11A-5 - When State Board of Health to Take Charge of Investigation.
Section 22-11A-6 - Penalty for Failure to Make Report.
Section 22-11A-7 - Persons Having Notifiable Disease to Obey Directions of Health Officials.
Section 22-11A-9 - Tuberculosis Cases to Be Reported; Contents of Report; Reports Confidential.
Section 22-11A-11 - Contract Hospitals to Admit Indigent Patients With Chronic Lung Diseases; Costs.
Section 22-11A-13 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Section 22-11A-25 - Commitment Petition - Contents.
Section 22-11A-27 - Commitment Petition - Notice of Petition to Be Served; Contents.
Section 22-11A-29 - Commitment Petition - Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem and Attorney.
Section 22-11A-31 - Commitment Petition - Rules to Apply at Hearings.
Section 22-11A-33 - Probate Court Retains Jurisdiction Over Person Committed.
Section 22-11A-35 - Attorney and Expert Fees.
Section 22-11A-37 - Testing and Treatment of Inmate of Correctional Facility.
Section 22-11A-40 - Laboratory Tests for AIDS and Other Diseases; Violations.
Section 22-11A-41 - Approval of Testing or Diagnostic Kits.
Section 22-11A-42 - Fees for Services by Bureau of Clinical Laboratories.