Healthcare Providers & Laboratories

• ★ 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
• Combined VFC & COVID-19 Routine Emergency Vaccine Management Plan (REVMP) (5/19/22)
• 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

• COVID-19 Emotional Support Line for Healthcare Workers

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.

• Guidance for Healthcare Workers Returning to Work after COVID Illness
  
• Frontline Staff Toolkit for Outpatient Hemodialysis Facilities

Clinical Information

• Evusheld
• TDH Letter to Current COVID mAb Providers (9/23/21)
  
• TDH Letter to Referring COVID mAb Providers (9/23/21)
• CDC: Clinical information about this disease
• CDC’s Project Firstline

• Report a case of this disease (2/23/22)
• PH-1600
• TDH Result Release Guidance (10/15/21)

• 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
  • TN Specimen Submission Guide (Form 1/3) (7/30/20)
  • TN PH 4360 Laboratory Submission Form (Form 2/3) (9/24/21)
  • CDC PUI Form (Form 3/3)
• Laboratory Specimen Supplies Guidance (3/23/20)

• COVID-19 Sequencing at the TN State Public Health Laboratory for Middle TN EIP Facilities
• COVID-19 Sequencing at the TN State Public Health Laboratory for non-EIP Facilities/Providers
• COVID-19 Variant Reporting Guidance

• 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.
  • TDH's response to Federal COVID reporting rules
  • FAQs regarding Federal COVID reporting rules    

• Information on Cycle threshold (Ct) values for SARS-CoV-2
• Antibody Testing Guidance (4/30/20)
• CDC: Information for Laboratories about Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• DOT: Safety Advisory for the Transportation of COVID-19 Diagnostic Samples

Licensure and Executive Orders

• Health Licensing Information Regarding COVID-19

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

• Children
  • TN Call for Cases/Case Definition
  • CDC: MIS-C for Healthcare Providers
    
• Adults
  • What we know about MIS-A
    

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
  • Clarification to 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