Oklahoma § 63-684.29 - Volunteer health practitioner registration systems

§ 63-684.29. Volunteer health practitioner registration systems

A. To qualify as a volunteer health practitioner registration

system, a system must:

1. Accept applications for the registration of volunteer health

practitioners before or during an emergency;

2. Include information about the licensure and good standing of

health practitioners which is accessible by authorized persons;

3. Be capable of confirming the accuracy of information

concerning whether a health practitioner is licensed and in good

standing before health services or veterinary services are provided

under the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act; and

4. Meet one of the following conditions:

a.

be an emergency system for advance registration of

volunteer health practitioners established by a state

and funded through the Health Resources Services

Administration under Section 319I of the Public Health

Services Act, 42 U.S.C., Section 247d-7b,

b.

be a local unit consisting of trained and equipped

emergency response, public health, and medical

personnel formed pursuant to Section 2801 of the

Public Health Services Act, 42 U.S.C., Section 300hh,

c.

be operated by a:

(1) disaster relief organization,

(2) licensing board,

(3) national or regional association of licensing

boards or health practitioners,

(4) health facility that provides comprehensive

inpatient and outpatient health-care services,

including a tertiary care and teaching hospital,

or

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(5) governmental entity, or

be designated by the State Department of Health as a

registration system for purposes of the Uniform

Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act.

B. While an emergency declaration is in effect, the State

Department of Health, a person authorized to act on behalf of the

Department, or a host entity may confirm whether volunteer health

practitioners utilized in this state are registered with a

registration system that complies with subsection A of this section.

Confirmation is limited to obtaining identities of the practitioners

from the system and determining whether the system indicates that

the practitioners are licensed and in good standing.

C. Upon request of a person in this state authorized under

subsection B of this section, or a similarly authorized person in

another state, a registration system located in this state shall

notify the person of the identities of volunteer health

practitioners and whether the practitioners are licensed and in good

standing.

D. A host entity shall not be required to use the services of a

volunteer health practitioner even if the practitioner is registered

with a registration system that indicates that the practitioner is

licensed and in good standing.

Added by Laws 2013, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 3, § 7, emerg. eff. Sept. 10,

2013.

NOTE: Text formerly resided under repealed Title 63, § 684.18,

which was derived from Laws 2009, c. 228, § 35, which was held

unconstitutional by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in the case of

Douglas v. Cox Retirement Properties, Inc., 2013 OK 37, 302 P.2d 789

(Okla. 2013).

d.