Section 1-601 – “Health Occupations Board” Defined
In this subtitle, “health occupations board” means a board authorized to issue a license or certificate under this article.
Section 1-602 – Disciplinary Subcommittee
(a) After consultation with the Secretary and to the extent permitted by existing administrative and fiscal resources, each health occupations board shall establish a disciplinary subcommittee. (b) To the extent deemed practicable by each board, a disciplinary subcommittee shall: (1) Be responsible for the investigation of complaints; (2) Determine whether the health occupations board should bring charges against a […]
Section 1-603 – Charges
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a health occupations board may not bring charges against a licensee or certificate holder based solely on events contained in a complaint the board receives more than 6 years after: (1) The day the complainant actually discovered the facts that form the basis of the complaint; or […]
Section 1-604 – Peer Review
(a) If a statute authorizes a health occupations board to use a system of peer review in standard of care cases and the peer reviewer or peer reviewers determine that there has been a violation of a standard of care, the board shall provide the licensee or certificate holder under investigation: (1) An opportunity to review the […]
Section 1-605 – Program for a Single Standard of Care Violation
(a) As an alternative to a formal hearing, each health occupations board may establish a program for licensees or certificate holders who commit a single standard of care violation. (b) A program established under this section shall provide training, mentoring, or other forms of remediation as determined by the health occupations board. (c) A health occupations board may […]
Section 1-606 – Sanctioning Guidelines
(a) Each health occupations board shall adopt specific sanctioning guidelines, including: (1) A range of sanctions that is based on historical data or a normative process for each type of violation; and (2) A list of mitigating and aggravating circumstances that may be used to decide if a sanction falls within or outside the established range of sanctions. […]
Section 1-607 – Posting of Final, Public Order
Each health occupations board shall post on the board’s Web site each final, public order for a disciplinary sanction issued to a licensee or certificate holder.
Section 1-608 – Timeliness of Complaint Resolution
The Secretary shall monitor the timeliness of complaint resolution for each health occupations board.
Section 1-609 – Guidelines for Separate Roles of Assistant Attorneys General and Prosecutor
(a) Each health occupations board shall collaborate with the Office of the Attorney General to make guidelines available to the public concerning the separate roles for assistant attorneys general as counsel and prosecutor for the board. (b) Noncompliance with the guidelines made available under this section may not be used as grounds for any hearing or appeal […]