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Healthcare Practitioner Disease Reporting

Contact Us

  •  904-253-1000
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    Mailing Address

    921 N. Davis St. 

    Bldg. A, Suite 251 

    Jacksonville, FL 32209 

Health care and laboratory providers are required to report conditions of public health importance to the Florida Department of Health as defined in Chapter 64D-3 of the Florida Administrative Code. 

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) does not change the obligation of health care providers, laboratories, and hospitals to report cases of disease listed in Chapter 64D-3, F.A.C., or the obligation to cooperate with the Department's epidemiology investigations. 

HIPAA Section 45 CFR 160.203(c) specifically defers to state law with respect to "reports of disease, injury, child abuse, birth, or death for the conduct of public health." Also, health care providers are specifically allowed to report these and other matters that contain protected health information to the public health authority without notice to your patient (45 CFR 164.512(b)). In fact, section 381.0031(7), F.S., requires licensed health care practitioners to report diseases of public significance to the Department of Health. Chapter 64D-3, F.A.C., specifies the diseases required to be reported. These state requirements are not reduced or changed by the federal law. 

Reportable Disease Information, Forms, and Guidelines

  • Healthcare Providers
  • Laboratory
  • Resources
  • Report a Disease

Disease Reporting Phone 
904-253-1850 

Disease reporting Fax * 
STD: 904-253-2601
HIV/AIDS: 904-253-2600 
TB: 904-253-1943
Animal Bite: 904-253-2390
All other infections: 904-253-1851 

Mailing Address** 
921 N. Davis St.  
Bldg. A, Suite 251, MC: 28 
Jacksonville, FL 32209 

For HIV/AIDS reporting:
Florida Department of Health in Duval County
Attention: HIV/AIDS Surveillance Office
921 North Davis St.
Bldg. A, Suite 251, MC: 39
Jacksonville, FL 32209 

*Facsimile Information (machines or electronic Faxing application or software): Confidential information may be faxed using appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. Protected health information may be faxed using a cover sheet marked “confidential: and containing the following paragraph must accompany all confidential transmissions: “This transmission may contain material that is CONFIDENTIAL under federal law and Florida Statutes and is intended only for the named addressee. Unauthorized use of this information may be a violation of criminal statutes. If this information is received by anyone other than the named addressee, the recipient must immediately notify the sender at the address or telephone number above and obtain instructions on disposal. Under no circumstances should this material be shared, retained, or copied by anyone other than the named addressee.” 

**Mailing: Please send all mail using traceable delivery, ensuring it is double-enveloped and marked as “Confidential.” 

*** Electronic Mail (Email): Confidential information must be encrypted during transmission over any network not owned by the Department of Health.