                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS TO BE REPORTED (§ 54.1-2400.3)

In addition to the information required by § 54.1-114, the Director shall
include in the Department&#8217;s biennial report for each of the health
regulatory boards the number of reports or complaints of misconduct received and
the investigations, charges, findings, and sanctions resulting therefrom. The
report shall reflect the categories of allegations, kinds of complaints and the
rates of disciplinary activity for the various regulated professions and the
health regulatory boards having jurisdiction; summaries explaining the reported
data shall be included with the report. Further, the report shall specify the
number of cases for each profession regulated by a health regulatory board by
category of violation, including, but not limited to, standard of care
violations, in which (i) a sanction was imposed; (ii) a confidential consent
agreement was accepted; and (iii) more than two confidential consent agreements
involving a standard of care violation were accepted by the relevant board for
the same practitioner in a 10-year period. The information shall be reported
only in the aggregate without reference to any individual&#8217;s name or
identifying particulars. In those portions of this report relating to the Board
of Medicine, the Director shall include a summary of the data required by §
54.1-2910.1.
		The Director shall also include in the Department&#8217;s biennial report for
each health regulatory board (i) case processing time standards for resolving
disciplinary cases, (ii) an analysis of the percentage of cases resolved during
the last two fiscal years that did not meet such standards, (iii) a six-year
trend analysis of the time required to process, investigate, and adjudicate
cases, and (iv) a detailed reporting of staffing levels for the six-year period
for each job classification that supports the disciplinary process. However, the
initial biennial report shall require a four-year trend analysis of the time
required to process, investigate, and adjudicate cases and a detailed reporting
of staffing levels for the four-year period for each job classification that
supports the disciplinary process.

HISTORY: 1997, c. 698; 1998, c. 744; 2003, cc. 753, 762.