WHO WE INSPECT:
Specific facilities and professions regulated under the Division of Medical Quality Assurance require inspections prior to beginning practice and/or on a periodic basis. These facilities and professions are as follows:
- Pain Management Clinics - Annual inspections
- Pharmacies – Opening, annual, change of location and change of owner inspections
- Dental Laboratories – Opening and annual inspections
- Massage Establishments – Opening, annual and change of location inspections
- Electrolysis Establishments – Opening, biennial and change of location inspections
- Optical Establishments – Biennial inspections
- Dispensing Practitioners - Annual inspections.
- Dispensing Practitioners may include Dentists, Medical Doctors, Naturopaths, Podiatrists, Osteopathic Physicians, Optometrists and Nurse Practitioners. Dispensing is defined as selling medicinal drugs to patients in the office. A practitioner who is only providing complimentary professional samples or who writes prescriptions for a patient to fill at another location is not dispensing and does not have to register as a dispensing practitioner.
To contact the Investigative Services Inspection Program:
Florida Department of Health
Investigative Services Unit
4052 Bald Cypress Way Bin C-70
Tallahassee, FL 32399-3270
Telephone: (850) 245-4478
| MISSION: | To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, & community efforts. |
| VISION: | To be the Healthiest State in the Nation |
| PURPOSE: | To protect the public and make Florida the healthiest state in the nation through health care licensure, enforcement, and information. |
| FOCUS: | To be the nation's leader in quality health care regulation. |
| VALUES: | I CARE (Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Responsiveness, Excellence) |
