Health Department Communicable Disease Info For Healthcare Providers

For Healthcare Providers:
The LaSalle County Health Department is open Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4:30pm. For emergency after hours reporting of communicable diseases, please contact the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Department at (815)433-2161 and give them your contact information and someone from the Health Department will contact you as soon as possible.

FOR SUSPECT NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, CLICK HERE

Hospital Information:

• • Bed Bug Guidance
    • Bed Bugs in Medical Facilities
    • Research, Prevention, and Management of Bed Bugs
  • Coronavirus
  • Influenza Guidance
  • Measles Guidance
    • Measles Testing Flow Chart
    • Measles Collection Instructions
  • Mumps Guidance
  • Rabies Exposure Guidance
  • STD Screening for Pregnant Women Guidance
  • STD Codes
  • Tickborne Diseases Guidance
  • Vaping and Severe Respiratory Illness Case Report Form
  • Varicella (Chickenpox) Reporting Form for Providers

Long Term Care Facility Information:

• • Acute Gastroenteritis Outbreak Guidance
  • Bed Bug Guidance
  • Coronavirus
  • Influenza Outbreak Guidance
  • Scabies Outbreak Guidance
    • Scabies in Long Term Care Facilities
    • Management of Scabies

For exposures to bloodborne pathogens. (i.e. accidental needlesticks):
National Clinician’s Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline 1(888)448-4911

State of Illinois Administrative Code for the Report of Communicable Diseases:
http://www.ilga.gov/commission/jcar/admincode/077/077006900C02000R.html