Healthcare Providers & Laboratories
COVID-19 Vaccine Partners
- ★ Register to Become a COVID-19 Pandemic Vaccinating Provider ★
- Vaccine Program Provider Agreement FAQs (10/30)
- Vaccine Storage and Handling Guidance
- Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Administration data to TennIIS
- Provider Resources for COVID-19 Vaccine Conversations with Patients
- Mass Vaccination Clinics: Challenges and Best Practices
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Training Module for Providers
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Program Provider Agreement (10/30)
For more information about becoming a COVID-19 vaccine provider, email VPDIP.pandemic@tn.gov
COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Resources
COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards
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
- Monoclonal Antibody Administration Locations: Location Availability (Last updated 2/11/21)
- CDC: Clinical information about this disease
- Triage and Assessment Guidance (9/21)
- CDC: COVID-19 ICD-10 Codes
- Providing Routine Immunizations (4/23)
- Guidance for Provision of Curbside Immunization Services (4/25)
- Management of Neonates and Pregnant Women
Long-Term Care Facility Guidance
- Long Term Care Visitation Overview (3/11/21)
- Letter to Long Term Care Providers (3/1/21)
- Prevention, Monitoring, and Management for Long-Term Care Facilities (8/28)
- Guidance to Request to PPE (6/11)
- Weekly Staff Testing - Nursing Homes (6/23)
- Weekly Staff Testing - Assisted Living Facilities and Residential Home for the Aged (6/23)
- TDH: Facilities and Health Professionals
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Webinars
- CDC Resources
- 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.
Reporting/Specimen Submission/Testing
- Report a case of this disease (2/5)
- Submit a specimen for laboratory testing (7/30)
- Antibody Testing Guidance (4/30)
- CDC: Overview of Testing for SARS-CoV-2
- PH-1600
- Point-of-Care Test Reporting Guidance (2/5)
- 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.
Personal Protective Equipment
Licensure and Executive Orders
Laboratory Guidance
- CDC: Information for Laboratories about Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Report a case of this disease (2/5)
- TN Specimen Submission Guide (Form 1/3) (7/30)
- Laboratory Specimen Supplies Guidance (3/23)
- Report a COVID-19 laboratory result (3/2)
- DOT: Safety Advisory for the Transportation of COVID-19 Diagnostic Samples
- Point of Care test reporting guidance (2/5)
- 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.
- Information on Cycle threshold (Ct) values for SARS-CoV-2
Death Certification/Decedent Guidance
- Death Certification (5/5)
- Decedent Guidance (9/3)
Tabletop Exercise Resources
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
- 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