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: 

• 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
• Facilities licensed under Chapter 499, Florida Statutes (i.e., Drug Wholesalers and Drug Manufacturers) –
• 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.

The Division of Medical Quality Assurance contracts with the DOH Division of Environmental Health for County Health Department staff to conduct inspections for Dental Laboratories, Massage, Electrolysis and Optical Establishments.

Inspection Forms

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

To contact the Environmental Health County Health Department Program:

Bureau of Community Environmental Health
4052 Bald Cypress Way Bin A-08
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1710
Telephone: (850) 245-4444, extension 2273