Reporting Workplace COVID Cases

Dealers should only call their local health department if you know an employee has tested positive for COVID-19. 

    The state’s COVID guidelines have directed dealers to contact state health officials in addition to their local health department when the dealer learns of a COVID-19 case in the workplace. But dealers have reported to GNYADA, that the State Health Department has instructed dealers that they only need to contact their local health agency. 

    GNYADA followed up with the state about this discrepancy, to which the NYS Department of Health (NYSDOH) replied that dealers should “make a good faith effort in trying to report an employee's positive test result or symptoms to the local health department.” Until further notice you should only email the agency at dohweb@health.ny.gov to satisfy the notification requirement.

    As for contacting the local Health Department, if you cannot get through to your local County or NYC office (e.g., calls go unanswered, there is no email/submission form), you should document your attempts to do so.
 

For privacy and security purposes, DO NOT include any information in your email to the New York State Health Department, at the email address provided above, that would identify a particular individual with COVID-19.