Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center
1121 Linden Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 63703
Contact & location
- Address
- 1121 Linden Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 63703
- Mail-in address
- Cape Girardeau County Public Health CenterPO Box 1839, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 63703
- Records for
- Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
- Phone
- 573-335-7846
- Official site
- Government website ↗
Last verified July 14, 2026
This office issues Missouri state records
Cape Girardeau County follows Missouri’s fees, eligibility rules and processing times. Compare the statewide baseline below before choosing where to go.
- $15.00
- Missouri birth certificate fee
- 4–6 weeks
- Statewide processing
- 6,245,466
- Missouri population
Office hours
| Monday | 7:30am - 4:30pm |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Wednesday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Thursday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Friday | 8:30am - 4:30pm |
| Saturday | closed |
| Sunday | closed |
Certificates, fees & processing
| Record | Fee | Processing |
|---|---|---|
| Birth Certificate | $15.00 | 4–6 weeksMissouri estimate |
| Death Certificate | $14.00 | 4–6 weeksMissouri estimate |
Processing times are set at state level — county offices do not publish their own — and are estimates that vary with demand.
The Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center’s office or registry of vital records, offers a wide range of crucial services. These offices play a vital role in the protection and provision of essential documents such as birth certificates, death certificates . In addition to maintaining these primary records, they are responsible for managing and issuing copies of birth, marriage, and death records that occurred within the Township of Cape Girardeau. Alongside record maintenance, this office provides valuable services like issuing certified copies of documents, overseeing the registration of domestic partnerships, and offering assistance to rectify any errors detected in vital records. Through these comprehensive services, the vital records office ensures the accuracy, accessibility, and integrity of vital records for the benefit of the community.
Reviews
★★★★★3.3 (38)- ★★★★★Katherine FultzGoogle
I called ahead and spoke to a very rude woman to check to be sure they had the pediatric dose of the flu vaccine. After several minutes of back and forth, she would only tell me that they offered "every vaccine." Arrived and they had closed five hours early for the day. *** Update: we went back the next week and were able to get our vaccines. The receptionist was cordial, but there was an odd, unpleasant odor in the waiting room. The nurse, however, was GREAT. I didn't even feel the two vaccines go in. Awesome. So she gets 5 stars, everything else gets 2 stars.
- ★★★★★allyson handsburyGoogle
Last week I was late for work and my son was late for daycare because I had to take him for his benefits to be renewed. So brought his shot record, and a 20 pound baby in a pumpkin seat, to wait upwards of 30 minutes for unfriendly employees to renew my benefits. All that is neither here nor there, that I expect. What I did not expect was for my sons benefits not to show up on the card, and for the employee to tell me I need to rearrange my work schedule yet again to come in so they can fix it just so my 7 month old can get his food. They were completely unapologetic and very blasé with the attitude of ‘oh these things just happen it’s no big deal’ okay maybe not for you and your cushy government job but some of us are single moms making $12 an hour and we can’t just leisurely attend work because there was a mistake on YOUR end when I did everything else I was supposed to do. My advice to the wic employees is to stop being jaded and insensitive despite the fact that your job is hard. I’m sure it is. That being said, this situation should’ve been treated with far more gravity and sensitivity.
- ★★★★★Addie S. (Addie)Google
So, I’ve been going here for years. At one point they blocked my number (as I had been waiting for more than a week for results) and I was calling them a lot I will admit but this seemed unprofessional. Nevertheless, they do a good job at helping you in person, quick and easy, I wish that they would be more on the same page so I don’t have to blurt out “STD testing” to everyone in the entire clinic when they ask what I’m there for, kinda silly… but whatever. They give away free flu shots which is a plus, it’s usually not busy, usually calm and quiet and clean, out of the way, of course affordable, also are more pluses. Only other problem I really have nowadays is when I call 8 times out of 10 nobody answers, personally I don’t have a lot of time to just go up there for a single answer about something.
- ★★★★★NadiaGoogle
Absolutely horrible customer service. It took almost a full 5 minutes for me to be acknowledged by the woman at the window. She was preoccupied texting on her flip phone. Once, I was acknowledged she was incredibly rude, unhelpful, and was giving me dirty looks. A separate time: they wrote down the wrong vaccine for me to receive and it was caught by a non public health department volunteer. Jen was the employee and even though she was supposed to have verified my information before assigning a vaccine for me to receive, she said that I needed a children’s flu vaccine. That vaccine is given to those under 18. I am several years past 18. How does someone ignore my date of birth twice and also have the wrong vaccine administered??? When that was one of her only tasks.
- ★★★★★Renae MortonGoogle
No line when I went in to request specific documents and the staff was nice and super helpful!