54.1-2400.3 - Disciplinary actions to be reported. - Virginia Statutes

§ 54.1-2400.3. Disciplinary actions to be reported.

In addition to the information required by § 54.1-114, the Director shallinclude in the Department's biennial report for each of the health regulatoryboards the number of reports or complaints of misconduct received and theinvestigations, charges, findings, and sanctions resulting therefrom. Thereport shall reflect the categories of allegations, kinds of complaints andthe rates of disciplinary activity for the various regulated professions andthe health regulatory boards having jurisdiction; summaries explaining thereported data shall be included with the report. Further, the report shallspecify the number of cases for each profession regulated by a healthregulatory board by category of violation, including, but not limited to,standard of care violations, in which (i) a sanction was imposed; (ii) aconfidential consent agreement was accepted; and (iii) more than twoconfidential consent agreements involving a standard of care violation wereaccepted by the relevant board for the same practitioner in a 10-year period.The information shall be reported only in the aggregate without reference toany individual's name or identifying particulars. In those portions of thisreport relating to the Board of Medicine, the Director shall include asummary of the data required by § 54.1-2910.1.

The Director shall also include in the Department's biennial report for eachhealth regulatory board (i) case processing time standards for resolvingdisciplinary cases, (ii) an analysis of the percentage of cases resolvedduring the last two fiscal years that did not meet such standards, (iii) asix-year trend analysis of the time required to process, investigate, andadjudicate cases, and (iv) a detailed reporting of staffing levels for thesix-year period for each job classification that supports the disciplinaryprocess. However, the initial biennial report shall require a four-year trendanalysis of the time required to process, investigate, and adjudicate casesand a detailed reporting of staffing levels for the four-year period for eachjob classification that supports the disciplinary process.

(1997, c. 698; 1998, c. 744; 2003, cc. 753, 762.)