Florida State Resources:
 

1. State Insurance Commissioner:

The Office serves Floridians through its responsibilities for regulation, compliance and enforcement of statutes related to the business of insurance.

http://www.floir.com/index.aspx

2. State Medical Board:

The mission of the Department of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) is to promote, protect and improve the health of all people in Florida. MQA, in conjunction with twenty-two (22) boards and six (6) councils, regulates six (6) types of facilities and more than forty (40) healthcare professions. MQA evaluates the credentials of all applicants for licensure, issues licenses, analyzes and investigates complaints, inspects facilities, assists in prosecuting practice act violations, investigates unlicensed activity and provides credential and discipline history about licensees to the public.

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/enforcement/enforce_home.htm

3. State Minority Office:

The Office of Supplier Diversity's function is to improve business and economic opportunities for Florida's minority, women, and service-disabled veteran business enterprises.

http://dms.myflorida.com/other_programs/office_of_supplier_diversity_osd/

4. State Nursing Board:

To file a complaint, verify licensure or for information on nursing practices.

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/nursing/nur_consumer.html

5. State Midwifery Organization:

Florida Council of License Midwifery

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/midwifery/mw_consumer.html

6. State Friends of Midwives site:

Florida Friends of Midwives (FFOM) is a non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to promoting the Midwives Model of Care and supporting the practice of midwifery in Florida.

http://www.flmidwifery.org

7. State Healthy Start or Associated Improved Pregnancy Program/Director's email:

Healthy Start legislation provides for universal risk screening of all Florida's pregnant women and newborn infants to identify those at risk of poor birth, health and developmental outcomes.

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/family/mch/hs/hs.html

8. State Pregnant Patient's Bill of Rights or Patient's Bill of Rights:

Florida Patient's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/Profiling/billofrights.htm

9. State Medicaid Complaint Information:

Better health care for all Floridians.

http://www.fdhc.state.fl.us/Consumer_Resources/index.shtml