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.

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