Each hospital shall maintain a sufficient number of staff with the qualifications, training and skills necessary to meet patient needs. The hospital shall be staffed twenty-four (24) hours per day.
Each hospital shall ensure and maintain evidence of, for employees and contract staff, current active licensure, registration, certification or other credentials in accordance with applicable District of Columbia law, prior to staff assuming job responsibilities and shall have procedures for verifying that the current status is maintained.
Whenever a licensed health-care professional is terminated as a result of a job-related incident, the hospital shall refer a report of the incident to the appropriate professional health-care board which shall review the report in accordance with the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act of 1985 (D.C. Law 6-99).
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 22, r. 22-B2016