Del. Code tit. 18 § 6821

Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 510
Section 6821 - Disciplinary action
(a) The Commissioner shall forward the name of every health care provider against whom a settlement is made or judgment is rendered under this chapter to the appropriate agency for licensure or professional registration and examination for review of the fitness of the health care provider to practice the profession. In each case involving review of a health care provider's fitness to practice under this chapter, the agency shall have the power, in appropriate cases, to take the following disciplinary action:
(1) Censure, public or private;
(2) Imposition of probation for determinate period;
(3) Suspension of the health care provider's license for a determinate period;
(4) Revocation of the license; or
(5) In the instance of institutional or corporate providers, the ordering of temporary or permanent cessation of the particular program, procedure or service resulting in the claim or judgment, and/or the ordering, monitoring and evaluation of corrective action necessary to bring such activity into compliance with contemporary standards.
(b) Review of the health care provider's fitness to practice shall be conducted in accordance with the applicable procedures set forth in Title 16 or 24, or other applicable provisions, and shall include a determination of whether a provider has been shown to be unfit to continue the practice of the profession because of a series of actions presumed to be medical negligence, because of verdicts or settlements against the provider, or because of a single case in which the act or omission is considered to include gross negligence on the provider's part.

18 Del. C. § 6821

60 Del. Laws, c. 373, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 373, § 3.;