Contact Us
If you are in a health emergency after business hours, please contact your medical provider or dial 9-1-1. To contact the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department On-Call Duty Officer to report a health emergency, please dial (253) 798-6500 and follow the instructions given there to page the Duty Officer. If you are not in a health emergency and want to leave a message for a health department program, please dial the appropriate number from the list below and leave a message.General Information
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Organizational Chart
Office Hours
Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Main Phone Number: (253) 798-6500
Toll Free: (800) 992-2456 (within WA State)
TDD: (253) 798-6050
Address: 3629 South D Street, Tacoma, WA 98418
Click here for a map
Email Contact (forwarded to appropriate staff): info@tpchd.org
Media Contact
For members of the news media
Edie Jeffers, Communications and Community Relations Manager
News@tpchd.org
Phone: (253) 798-2853
Cell: (253) 405-6822
Fax: (253) 798-7627
Health Department Program Phone Numbers:
| Abandoned Commercial Tank Project (Project ACT) | (253) 798-4784 |
| Access to Baby and Child Dentistry (ABCD) | (253) 798-4720 |
| Access to Health Care | (253) 798-6451 or (800) 798-6451 toll free |
| AIDS Prevention | (253) 798-6410 |
| Alcohol, Tobacco and Violence Prevention | (253) 798-7321 |
| Apple Health for Kids | (253) 798-6451 or (800) 798-6451 toll free |
| Arsenic Project | (253) 798-3503 |
| Asbuilt Request Line | (253) 798-6577 |
| Basic Food/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance or Food Stamps | (253) 798-6451 |
| Birth and Death Certificates/Vital Records |
(253) 798-6418 (after hours/holidays Recording:(253) 798-6413) |
| Brownfields Assessment Project | (253) 798-4784 |
| Business Office | (253) 798-6500 |
| Clean Air for Kids Asthma Prevention | (253) 798-2954 |
| Communicable Disease Control | (253) 798-6410 |
| Community Assessment | (253) 798-7695 |
| Coordinated School Health Program | (253) 798-3811 |
| Dental Health Referral | (253) 798-6044 |
| Director of Health | (253) 798-2899 |
| Family Support Centers General Information | (253) 798-6543 |
| Food and Community Safety | (253) 798-6460 |
| Food Worker Card Information | (253) 798-6475 |
| Hazardous Waste Disposal | (253) 798-6047 |
| Hazardous Waste Around the Home | (253) 798-3512 |
| Hepatitis Referral | (253) 798-6410 |
| Human Resources | (253) 798-6486 |
| Immunization Referral | (253) 798-6410 |
| Job Information | (253) 798-6554 |
| Maternal and Child Health Referral | (253) 798-6403 |
| Meth Lab Cleanup | (253) 798-7692 |
| New Born Referral | (253) 798-7669 |
| Notifiable Conditions (Medical providers report lab-confirmed illness) | Workday Reporting Line: (M-F, 8:00 - 4:30): (253) 798-6410 (Press "0" to speak to someone) 24 hour Reporting Line: (253) 798-6534 Confidential Fax Line: (253) 798-7666 |
| On-site sewage compliance | (253) 798-6440 |
| Physical Activity and Nutrition | (253) 798-2887 |
| Pools/Spas | (253) 798-4430 |
| Public Health Home Visiting Nurse Referrals | (253) 798-6403 |
| Public Health Prevention Priorities | (253) 798-7321 |
| Purchasing | (253) 798-6483 |
| Refugee Screening Referral | (253) 798-6410 |
| Rodents-Garbage-Illegal Dumping Reporting | (253) 798-6440 |
| School Safety | (253) 798-4430 |
| Sexually Transmitted Disease Referral | (253) 798-6410 |
| Septic Systems | (253) 798-6470 |
| Stub Outs/Finals | (253) 798-6479 |
| Substance Abuse--MOMS/Women's Recovery | (253) 798-6655 |
| Tuberculosis Referral | (253) 798-6410 |
| Treatment Services Units 1&2 | (253) 798-6576 |
| Waste Management | (253) 798-6047 |
| Water Resources | (253) 798-6470 |
| West Nile Virus | (253) 798-6578 |
| Zoonotics (Animal Bites) | (253) 798-7694 |
Health Department Fax Numbers
Strengthening Families- Strengthening Families Administrative Staff: (253) 798-6589
- Treatment Services: (253) 798-2935
- Family Support Partnership: (253) 798-3522
- Intake for FCS/MSS Referrals: (253) 798-6403
- Community Health: (253) 798-3598
- Central Intake: (253) 798-2872
- MOMS Program: (253) 798-2972
- Communicable Disease Main Fax: (253) 798-6027
- Confidential Fax: (253) 798-7666
- Vaccine Distribution: (253) 798-6136
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness: (253) 798-7627
- Environmental Health: (253) 798-7663
- Physical Activity & Nutrition and Tobacco: (253) 798-6450
- Food & Community Safety: (253) 798-6539
- Birth & Death Certificates: (253) 798-6560
- Human Resources: (253) 798-6296
- Purchasing: (253) 798-4776
- Business Support Services: (253) 798-6019
- Office of Assessment, Planning and Improvement: (253) 798-2947
- Office of the Director/Communications: (253) 798-7627
