A. As used in this section:
(1) "credentialing" means obtaining, verifying and assessing the qualifications of a health practitioner to provide treatment, care or services in or for a health facility; and
(2) "privileging" means the authorizing by an appropriate authority, such as a governing body, of a health practitioner to provide specific treatment, care or services at a health facility subject to limits based on factors that include license, education, training, experience, competence, health status and specialized skill.
B. The Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act does not affect credentialing or privileging standards of a health facility and does not preclude a health facility from waiving or modifying those standards while an emergency declaration is in effect.
History: Laws 2008, ch. 47, § 7.
Effective dates. — Laws 2008, ch. 47, § 14 made the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act effective July 1, 2008.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 12 - Miscellaneous Public Affairs Matters
Article 12A - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act
Section 12-12A-1 - Short title.
Section 12-12A-2 - Definitions.
Section 12-12A-3 - Applicability to volunteer health practitioners.
Section 12-12A-4 - Regulation of services during emergency.
Section 12-12A-5 - Volunteer health practitioner registration systems.
Section 12-12A-6 - Recognition of volunteer health practitioners licensed in other states.
Section 12-12A-7 - No effect on credentialing and privileging.
Section 12-12A-8 - Provision of volunteer health or veterinary services; administrative sanctions.
Section 12-12A-9 - Relation to other laws.
Section 12-12A-10 - Regulatory authority.
Section 12-12A-11 - Rights, privileges and immunities for volunteer health practitioners.
Section 12-12A-12 - Workers' compensation coverage.
Section 12-12A-13 - Uniformity of application and construction.