(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. (b) “Cultural and linguistic competency” means cultural and linguistic abilities that can be incorporated into therapeutic and medical evaluation and treatment, including: (1) Direct communication in the patient’s primary language; (2) Understanding and applying the roles that culture, ethnicity, and race play in diagnosis, treatment, and clinical care; […]
(a) There is a Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Professional Competency Program. (b) The purpose of the Program is to: (1) Provide for a voluntary program in which educational classes are offered to health care professionals to teach health care professionals: (i) Methods to improve the health care professionals’ cultural and linguistic competency to communicate with non–English speaking patients […]
The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the State Medical Society, the Maryland Nurses Association, the Maryland State Dental Association, the National Association of Social Workers – Maryland Chapter, the Maryland Clinical Social Work Coalition, the Maryland Psychological Association, the Maryland Pharmacists Association, or any other health professional association or public health entity in the […]
(a) The Maryland Department of Health shall develop a method through which the appropriate professional licensing board recognizes the training received by health care professionals under this subtitle, either through continuing education credits or otherwise. (b) The Program shall provide a certificate of training completion for any individual who completes the training established under § 20–1305 of […]
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. (2) “Perinatal care” means the provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods. (3) “Perinatal care facility” includes: (i) A hospital, as defined in § 19–301 of this article, that provides perinatal care; and (ii) A freestanding birthing center, as defined in § 19–3B–01 of […]
(a) (1) The Program shall, in coordination with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, identify and approve implicit bias training programs that an individual may complete to satisfy the requirements of § 1–225 of the Health Occupations Article. (2) The Program may approve only implicit bias training programs under paragraph (1) of this subsection that are […]
