The Department of Health accepts complaints about providers and facilities and providers practicing without a license.
If you're filing a complaint about a provider, please include:
- Your specific complaint with as much detail as possible
- Full name of the individual provider
- Provider’s business address
If you're filing a complaint about a facility include:
- Your specific complaint with as much detail as possible
- Facility name
- Facility address
We do not credential the following types of facilities and cannot process complaints related to:
- Facilities regulated by DSHS (nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and adult family homes)
- Schools
- Clinics or doctor offices
To file a complaint, find the complaint forms below. To request a document in an alternate format, call 1-800-525-0127 or complete our online feedback form. Deaf or hard of hearing customers, call 711 (Washington Relay).
Call us at 360-236-2620 to request the complaint form in a language not listed below. Additionally you may email us a complaint on a health care provider (hsqacomplaintintake@doh.wa.gov) or mail us a complaint form at:
Washington State Department of Health
Health Systems Quality Assurance
P.O. 47857
Olympia, WA 98504-7857
Facility, Nursing Pools, and Health Care Professional Forms
- Online
- Complaint forms (both in PDF and Word)
- English (PDF) | English (Word)
- Arabic (PDF) | Arabic (Word)
- Chinese (Simplified) (PDF) | Chinese (Simplified) (Word)
- Korean (PDF) | Korean (Word)
- Marshallese (PDF) | Marshallese (Word)
- Russian (PDF) | Russian (Word)
- Somali (PDF) | Somali (Word)
- Spanish (PDF) | Spanish (Word)
- Tagalog (PDF) | Tagalog (Word)
- Ukrainian (PDF) | Ukrainian (Word)
- Vietnamese (PDF) | Vietnamese (Word)
Medical Cannabis Consultant Forms
Nursing Professional Complaint Form
- Complaint Form (nurses)
- File a complaint (nursing education and nursing assistant training programs)
Physician and Physician Assistant Complaint Form
- Physician and physician assistant complaint information
- Medical Doctor (MD)
- Physician Assistant (PA)