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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-039 Order Primary source read

Order of the Governor of the State of Maryland, Various Health Care Matters (Mar. 19, 2020) (Order No. 20-03-19-01)

Establishment of health facilities (including decommissioned hospitals and State property for treatment, isolation and quarantine); resource control over Strategic National Stockpile assets and COVID-19 testing assets (receiving, stockpiling, rationing, distributing); interstate license reciprocity and reactivation of inactive licenses

Governor Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr. · Maryland (Governor; Secretary of Health); State level (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Maryland (Governor; Secretary of Health); State level · Maryland
Level
State
Authority
Pub. Safety §§ 14-303, 14-3A-03
Issued
2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-03-19
End
Amended and superseded by later 'Various Health Care Matters' orders (Apr. 1, 2020 et seq.) through the state of emergency (read as 2020-04-01)
In force
Mar. 19, 2020 to Apr. 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersSupply chainOther
Addressees
  • Secretary of Health
  • health care facilities
  • health care practitioners licensed in other States
  • holders of State property
Functions reached
  • SC State rationing and distribution of PPE and testing assets to facilities
  • HR out-of-state practitioners admitted to practice
  • OP facilities designated for treatment and quarantine
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

II. Establishment of Health Facilities. a. The Secretary is ordered to work collaboratively with health care providers throughout the State to designate and gain access to any and all facilities needed to respond to the catastrophic health emergency, including, without limitation, decommissioned hospitals; and b. Any property owned by the State of Maryland shall be made available to the Secretary as a place of treatment, isolation, and/or quarantine. III. Resource Control. The Secretary is ordered to establish and implement appropriate policies and procedures for receiving, stockpiling, rationing, and distributing (a) all assets received by the State of Maryland from the Strategic National Stockpile; and (b) assets needed for COVID-19 testing.

Enforcement

Pub. Safety § 14-114; § 14-3A-03 (catastrophic health emergency orders)

Notes

The Maryland analogue of the emergency-management supply orders: State control of the receipt, rationing and distribution of PPE and testing supplies among health-care facilities.

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