Contact Us

Address:

Center for Health Statistics
800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 205
Portland, OR 97232

Fax: 971-673-1203

TTY: 771

To speak with an operator call 971-673-1190
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Due to the large number of calls, you may be on hold for an extended amount of time. Operators will not be available to answer your call after 4:30 p.m.

Internet and Phone Orders:

The State of Oregon is partnered with VitalChek for secure online and telephone ordering of government-issued vital records.

Call 1-888-896-4988 to place orders by telephone - orders are taken by VitalChek 24 hours a day, everyday.

NOTE: For vital record events that did not occur in Oregon, call the state or county vital records office where the event occurred. Visit the CDC Index of State Vital Records Offices.

Amendments Unit

Email: CHS.Amendments@oha.oregon.gov

Website: Vital Records Amendments

Fax: 971-673-1201

If you have questions that cannot be answered by using this site, please email CHS.Amendments@oha.oregon.gov or call 971-673-1147.

Please provide:

• Your name
  

• Telephone number

• Email address

• Name currently on the record

• Date of the event

• Amendment type 

• Order number, if there is one assigned

An amendment specialist will return your message in the order it was received. 

Legal changes to:

Birth

• Adoptions

• Correction affidavits (for minor changes)

• Court ordered changes

• Gender identity support

• Paternity (Acknowledgment of Paternity)

• Filiations (court ordered paternity)

Death (amending the personal portion of a death record)


Marriage (all requests must go through the county office that issued the license)


Divorce (all requests must go through the court that approved the divorce judgment)

Delayed registration of records:

• Birth

• Death

• Marriage (Contact Registration Unit)

• Divorce (Contact Registration Unit)
  

Home birth packets (unassisted)

Certification Unit

Email: CHS.VitalRecords@oha.oregon.gov

Website: Order Vital Records

Fax: 971-673-1203

Call: 971-673-1190 General Information

Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Due to the large number of calls, you may be on hold for an extended amount of time. Operators will not be available to answer your call after 4:30 p.m.

Registration Unit

Email: CHS.Registration@oha.oregon.gov

Fax: 971-673-1201

Call: 971-673-1190

Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Support for completing birth records (for home births)

Support for completing death records for home burials

Social Security card inquiries

Home burial packets

Vital Records Statistics Unit

Email: CHS.Statistics@oha.oregon.gov

Website: Vital Records Statistics

NOTE: Center for Health Statistics staff can answer inquiries about Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. 
Send email to: DWDA.Info@oha.oregon.gov

Dashboards and data regarding vital event records reported in Oregon

Data use agreements

Amending the medical portion of a death record