{"id":"DE-008","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Delaware","state":"DE","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"A.J. Schall, Director, Delaware Emergency Management Agency, and Karyl T. Rattay, M.D., Director, Division of Public Health, on behalf of DHSS","authority":"20 Del. C. ch. 31 (DEMA authorization of persons to perform medical examinations and treatment; DPH waiver of licensing requirements for out-of-state providers with the Governor\u0027s consent)","instrument":"Joint Order of the Department of Health and Social Services and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency","title":"Joint Order authorizing out-of-state and lapsed-license health-care and mental-health providers to practice in Delaware","dateIssued":"2020-03-23","effective":"2020-03-23 5:00 p.m. E.D.T.","end":"\u0027until further notice but not later than such time as the later of the Governor\u0027s Declaration of Public Health Emergency or Declaration of a State of Emergency (including Modifications) is lifted\u0027; reissued Apr. 1, Apr. 29, Oct. 16, Dec. 1, 2020 and Jan. 4/Mar. 11, 2021 (Public Archives index)","startDate":"2020-03-23","endDate":"2020-12-01","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["out-of-state licensed physicians, pharmacists, nurses, nursing assistants, paramedics, EMTs, respiratory therapists","lapsed Delaware licensees","out-of-state mental-health providers"],"clause":"\u00271. Out of state health care providers, including physicians, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, practical nurses, professional nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, and nursing assistants with an active license or certification in good standing in any United States jurisdiction are hereby authorized to provide healthcare services in Delaware; and 2. All [such practitioners] who have held an active Delaware license or certification within the last five years, which is now inactive, expired, or lapsed, may provide healthcare services in Delaware...; and 3. All out of state mental health providers with an active license in good standing in any United States jurisdiction... are hereby authorized to provide in-person and telemedicine mental health services in Delaware.\u0027","enforcement":"Licensure waiver under 20 Del. C. ch. 31","functions":["HR credentialing (out-of-state and lapsed licensees admitted)","TM telemedicine mental-health services","WF health-care labor market"],"notes":"Health-care regulator instrument; the State\u0027s own finding of an emergency workforce shortage; predecessor of the July 12, 2021 Joint Practice Order (DE-048).","sourceUrl":"https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/Executive-Orders/Carney/public-health/DEMA-and-DPH-Order-3.23.20.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":172231,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"DE","url":"/library/DE-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DE-008","citation":"A.J. Schall, Director, Delaware Emergency Management Agency, and Karyl T. Rattay, M.D., Director, Division of Public Health, on behalf of DHSS, Joint Order of the Department of Health and Social Services and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. DE-008)","stateName":"Delaware","related":["DE-048","DE-002"]}