Healthcare Providers & Laboratories

COVID-19 Vaccine Partners
- ★ Register to Become a COVID-19 Pandemic Vaccinating Provider ★
- Vaccine Program Provider Agreement FAQs (3/30/22)
- TN COVID-19 Pandemic Provider Onboarding Guide 2022
- 2022 Storage Unit Guidance – Quick Reference Guide
- Vaccine Storage and Handling Guidance (02/09/22)
- Routine and Emergency Vaccine Management Plan (REVMP) Provider Checklist
- Routine and Emergency Vaccine Management Plan (REVMP) (3/30/22)
- Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Administration data to TennIIS
- Provider Resources for COVID-19 Vaccine Conversations with Patients
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Training Module for Providers
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Program Provider Agreement (10/30/20)
- CDC Guidance: Vaccination of Health Care Workers and Long Term Care Facility Residents
For more information about becoming a COVID-19 vaccine provider, email VPDIP.pandemic@tn.gov
COVID-19 Emotional Support
If you are a Tennessee health care provider or first responder and want to talk to someone about feelings of stress, anxiety, sadness or depression related to your work, the COVID-19 Emotional Support Line is staffed by specially-trained volunteers who can help. Please call 888-MHART-TN (888-642-7886). Learn more here.
Healthcare Worker Guidance
Clinical Information
Case Reporting and Result Release
- Report a case of this disease (2/23/22)
- PH-1600
- TDH Result Release Guidance (10/15/21)
Diagnostic Laboratory Test Ordering and Reporting
- Report a COVID-19 laboratory result (5/2/22)
- Point-of-Care Test Reporting Guidance (2/5/21)
- SARS-CoV-2 PCR Testing at the State Public Health Laboratory
- Laboratory Specimen Supplies Guidance (3/23/20)
Whole Genome Sequencing Ordering and Reporting
Federal Reporting Rules
- Several memos, regulations, and press releases have been publicized over the past several months regarding COVID-19 laboratory result reporting to Federal, state, and local officials; including the most recent Interim Final Rule with a Comment Period (CMS-3401-IFC) from August 25, 2020. This memo is intended to summarize the Tennessee Department of Health’s current understanding of the implications of these new policies on facilities providing clinical care or laboratory testing in Tennessee.
General Laboratory Information
Licensure and Executive Orders
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome
Death Certification/Decedent Guidance
- Death Certification (5/5/20)
- Decedent Guidance (9/3/20)
Webinars and Tabletop Exercise Resources
- Archived
COVID-19 Webinars – Last Updated January 2021
- COVID19 Healthcare Tabletop Exercise Facilitator Manual
- COVID19 Healthcare Tabletop Facilitator PPT
- COVID19 Healthcare Tabletop Exercise for Participants
- TDH Health Alert - 12-13-20
- TDH Health Alert - 08-03-20
- TDH Health Alert - 07-21-20
- TDH Health Alert - 07-10-20
- TDH Health Alert - 06-23-20
- TDH Health Alert - 05-08-20
- TDH Health Alert - 04-29-20
- TDH Health Alert - 04-15-20
- TDH Health Alert - 03-25-20
- TDH Health Alert - 03-11-20
- TDH Health Alert - 03-06-20
- TDH Health Alert - 02-28-20
- TDH Health Alert - 01-29-20
- TDH Health Alert - 01-23-20