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To report child or dependent adult abuse, please call 1-800-362-2178.

To report a change to your Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or FIP case call, please call 1-877-347-5678.

For Child Care payments or registration, please call 1-866-448-4605 or visit the appropriate Child Care Web Portal:

For questions about your case or to contact your worker, click HHS office map to locate the phone number.


1st Five


Abuse Registry


Abuse Reporting



Adoption Investigators (Certified)


Adult Abuse

  • 1-800-362-2178 toll free

Adult/Elderly Services

  • 1-800-338-8366

After Care Service Network


Anatomical Gift Public Awareness and Transplantation Fund


Annual County Service Contract List


Public Health Annual Reports


Anthrax


Antibiotic Resistance


Appeals


Barriers to Prenatal Care Project


Better Choices, Better Health


Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates


Botulism


Brain Injuries, Advisory Council


Brain Injury Services Program


Brucellosis


Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Management


Bureau of Emergency Trauma Services


Bureau of Environmental Health Services


Bureau of Family Health


Bureau of Finance


Bureau of Health Statistics


Bureau of HIV, STI and Hepatitis


Bureau of Immunization & TB


Bureau of Information Management


Bureau of Nutrition & Physical Activity


Bureau of Oral and Health Delivery Systems


Bureau of Policy & Workforce Services


Bureau of Professional Licensure


Bureau of Public Health Performance


Bureau of Radiological Health


Bureau of Substance Abuse

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  • Cultural Competency Treatment Project
  • Families in Focus
  • Iowa Behavioral Health Reporting System (IBHRS)
  • Prevention Related Programs
  • Program Licensure and Regulation

Campylobacter


Care for Kids (EPSDT Care for Kids)


Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology (CADE)


Certificate of Need


Child Care


Child Placing Agencies


Child Protection Centers


Child Vision Screening


Child Support


Cholera


Civil Commitment Unit for Sexual Offenders

  • To learn more about the 24/7 facility that provides secure, inpatient treatment for sexual offenders who are believed to be a high risk for sexually re-offending see the CCUSO page.

Collaborative Service Agreements


Commodities/Food Distribution


Community Partnerships for Protecting Children (CPPC)


County Offices

  • To apply for benefits or ask questions, contact your local office. Use the HHS office map to find the office contact information. 

COVID-19


Cryptosporidium


Cultural Equity


Cyclospora


Cytomegalovirus (CMV)


Data


Data and Surveillance Reports (Acute Disease)


Data Sharing Agreements


Developmental Disabilities

  • The Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council promotes the development of a coordinated system of services and supports that provide opportunities for people with developmental disabilities to be independent, productive, integrated and included in their communities. To learn more see the Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council’s website.

Diphtheria


Directors Office


Disaster Behavioral Health Services



Estate Recovery


Exceptions to Policy


Facilities


Falls Prevention for Iowa


Family Investment Program (FIP)


Forms


Foster Care


Foster Care Recovery Unit 

  • 1-888-229-9223 toll free or 515-369-2844

Fraud Reporting


Gaining Ground


Genetics and Infant Screening


Giardia


Group A Streptococcus


Group B Streptococcus


Group Foster Care Facilities


Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)


Hantavirus


Hawki (Healthy & Well Kids in IA)


hawk-i Outreach


Head Lice


Health Care

For application assistance or to ask questions, contact your local office. Use the HHS office map to find the office contact information. 

To report changes to an existing case:

Call: 1-877-347-5678
FAX: 515-564-4041
Email: IMCustomerSC@dhs.state.ia.us

Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention


Healthy Child Care Iowa (HCCI)


Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)


Hepatitis A


Hepatitis B


Hepatitis C


Hepatitis D


Hepatitis E

 


Histoplasmosis


Home- and Community-Based Waivers

  • Program Information
  • AIDS/HIV 515-256-4641
  • Brain Injury 515-256-4653
  • Children's Mental Health 515-256-4642
  • Elderly 515-256-4642
  • Ill & Handicapped 515-256-4641
  • Intellectual Disabilities 515-256-4661
  • Physical Disability 515-256-4661
  • To report changes to an existing case:

    Call: 1-877-347-5678
    FAX: 515-564-4041
    Email: IMCustomerSC@dhs.state.ia.us


Hot Lines


Public Health Employment


Public Health Regulatory Programs


Influenza


Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children

  • 515-281-5730

Interstate Compact for Juveniles


Integrated Claims Recovery Unit (Processes interstate matches for duplicate public assistance and establishes claims for recoupment.)


Investigation


Iowa Board of Medicine


Iowa Board of Nursing


Iowa Board of Pharmacy


Iowa Dental Board


Iowa Disease Surveillance System (IDSS)


Iowa Gambling Treatment Program


Iowa Influenza Surveillance Network


Iowa Natural Hair Braiding Registry


Iowa Newborn Screening Program


Iowa Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (IPOST)


Iowa Plan for Behavioral Health


Iowa Public Health Data


Iowa State Board of Health


Iowa Student Health Screening Requirements


Iowa's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program


IRIS


Juvenile Facility


Juvenile Justice

  • Delinquency Services 515-242-5452

Lead Poisoning Prevention


Legionella


Leprosy


Licensing


Listeria


Local Public Health Contracts


Lyme Disease


Malaria


Measles


Medical Assistance / Medicaid


Nursing Facility Care (Medicaid)


Medicaid


Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)


Meningitis (Meningococcal invasive disease)


Mental Health


Mumps


Newborn Hearing Screening


Norovirus


Nuclear Medicine Technologist


Office of Disability, Injury & Violence Prevention


Office of Medical Cannabidiol


Parent Partners


PARIS - Public Assistance Reporting Information System

  • P.O. Box 36570, Des Moines, IA 50315
  • Call 877- 855-0021
  • FAX 515-564-4095
  • Email ICRU@dhs.state.ia.us

Preferred Drug List


Pertussis (Whooping Cough)


Plague


Poliomyelitis (Polio)


Pregnancy Options


Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)


Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)


Promise Jobs


Promoting Interoperability (formerly Meaningful Use)


Psittacosis


Public Health Data


Public Records Request


Quick Reads


Rabies


Record Check Evaluations


Refugee Services


Reports, Iowa Public Health Data


Research and Ethics Review Committee


Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF)


Rubella (German Measles)


Runaway Children - Out of State

  • 515-281-3123

Rural Health and Primary Care


Safe and Together Model - a response to domestic violence


Safe Haven for Infants


Salmonella


Saving Your Brain


Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)


Shigella


Smallpox


Social Security Office (Federal Government) 


Special Needs Children


State Innovation Model (SIM)


State Medical Examiner's Office


Statewide Perinatal Care Program


Streptococcus pneumoniae


Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Program


Suicide Prevention


Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)


Syndromic Surveillance


Teens

  • Independent Living (Foster Care for 16 and Older) 515-242-5271
  • State Training School for Boys at Eldora 641-858-5402
  • Delinquency, Juvenile Justice Programs - 515-242-5452

Tetanus


Tick-borne and Mosquito-borne Disease


Title V Needs Assessment


Toxic Shock Syndrome


Trichinosis


Tularemia


Typhoid Fever


Vaccines for Children


Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers


Vital Records


Voter Registration

  • See Voter Registration information on the Iowa Secretary of State's website.
  • You can get help registering to vote when you apply for HHS assistance programs.

Waiver Programs


Welfare


West Nile Virus


Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE)


Winter Weather Precautions and Information


Yellow Fever

 

General Information:

If you need further assistance in locating the appropriate office to address your concerns, please call toll free to 800-972-2017.

Relay Iowa TTY 1-800-735-2942

Email: contactdhs@dhs.state.ia.us

HIPAA Information

For changes to this page, please contact contactdhs@dhs.state.ia.us.