{"id":"DE-048","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","authority":"20 Del. C. ch. 31 (under the Public Health Emergency of July 12, 2021)","instrument":"Joint Practice Order: Joint Order of the Department of Health and Social Services and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency","title":"Joint Practice Order authorizing out-of-state and lapsed-license practitioners to provide in-person health-care services at DPH points of dispensing, testing and public-health events and in licensed long-term-care facilities","dateIssued":"2021-07-12","effective":"2021-07-12 11:59 p.m. E.D.T. (approved 4:00 p.m.)","end":"\u0027until further notice but not later than such time as the Governor\u0027s Declaration of Public Health Emergency is lifted\u0027; reissued July 14, Aug. 12, Sept. 23 and Oct. 7, 2021 (Public Archives index)","startDate":"2021-07-12","endDate":"2021-10-07","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["out-of-state licensed physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, paramedics, EMTs, nurses, nursing assistants","lapsed Delaware licensees","long-term-care facilities"],"clause":"\u00271. The individuals listed in Appendix A are authorized to provide in-person healthcare services: a. Under the direction of the Division of Public Health or the State Health Operations Center at points of dispensing, call centers, community testing or other public health events once registered with the Delaware Medical Reserve Corps. b. In licensed long-term care facilities in the State of Delaware, as such facilities are defined in 16 Del. C. § 1102.\u0027","enforcement":"Licensure waiver under 20 Del. C. ch. 31","functions":["HR credentialing waivers in Q3 2021","WF long-term-care labor market"],"notes":"A Q3 2021 State finding of a continuing emergency workforce shortage in congregate care; matches bundled DE-08.","sourceUrl":"https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/Executive-Orders/Carney/public-health/Joint-Practice-Order-Joint-Order-of-the-Department-of-Health-and-Social-Services-and-the-Delaware-Emergency-Management-Agency-07122021.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":137683,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"DE","url":"/library/DE-048","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DE-048","citation":"A.J. Schall, Director, Delaware Emergency Management Agency, and Karyl T. Rattay, M.D., Director, Division of Public Health, Joint Practice Order: Joint Order of the Department of Health and Social Services and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (July 12, 2021) (Ex. DE-048)","stateName":"Delaware","related":["DE-008"]}