A. The board has the authority to enter into an agreement to implement an impaired health care provider treatment program.
B. For the purposes of this section, "impaired health care provider treatment program" means a program of care and rehabilitation services provided by those organizations authorized by the board to provide for the detection, intervention and monitoring of impaired health care providers.
History: 1978 Comp., § 61-7-12, enacted by Laws 1987, ch. 204, § 2; 1995, ch. 96, § 12.
The 1995 amendment, effective June 16, 1995, substituted "health care provider" for "physician" in the section heading and in three places in the text of the section and deleted "with a nonprofit corporation" following "agreement" in Subsection A.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 61 - Professional and Occupational Licenses
Article 7 - Impaired Health Care Provider
Section 61-7-4 - Health care provider boards; additional powers and duties.
Section 61-7-5 - Examination by committee.
Section 61-7-6 - Voluntary restriction of licensure.
Section 61-7-7 - Report to the board; action.
Section 61-7-9 - Reinstatement of license.
Section 61-7-10 - Judicial review.
Section 61-7-11 - Protected action and communication.
Section 61-7-12 - Impaired health care provider treatment program.