{"id":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-120","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Massachusetts - Department of Public Health (State health department)","state":"MA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","eco":"","issuer":"Margret R. Cooke, Acting Commissioner of Public Health","authority":"G.L. c. 17, § 2A (recited)","instrument":"Order of the Commissioner of Public Health, COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Order No. 2021-8","title":"Non-MAP-certified staff in Community Programs may possess and administer medications under existing prescriptions and administration orders to avoid unnecessary emergency department visits; G.L. c. 94C, § 7 suspended in part","dateIssued":"2021-09-15","effective":"2021-09-15","end":"duration of the modified public health emergency","startDate":"2021-09-15","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["HC","EMP"],"addressees":["Community Programs (group homes and residential programs) and their staff"],"clause":"I issue the following Order: [to address staffing shortages in Community Programs as] defined in 105 CMR 700.001, and to avoid unnecessary emergency department visits, G.L. c. 94C, § 7 is hereby suspended, in part, to allow non-MAP Certified staff in Community Programs to possess and [administer medications] pursuant to existing patient prescriptions and administration orders, as outlined in Department guidance. All applicable statute, regulations and guidance not inconsistent with this Order remain in effect.","enforcement":"G.L. c. 17, § 2A; G.L. c. 94C","functions":["HR staffing (medication administration by non-certified staff)","RS residential program operations","ED emergency department demand"],"notes":"Q3 2021 instrument issued Sept. 15, 2021; recites staffing shortages in residential programs.","sourceUrl":"https://www.mass.gov/doc/order-of-the-commissioner-of-public-health-covid-19-public-health-emergency-order-no-2021-8/download","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210919/https://www.mass.gov/doc/order-of-the-commissioner-of-public-health-covid-19-public-health-emergency-order-no-2021-8/download","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":109018,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-120","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-120","citation":"Margret R. Cooke, Acting Commissioner of Public Health, Order of the Commissioner of Public Health, COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Order No. 2021-8 (Sept. 15, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-120)","stateName":"Massachusetts","related":["AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-119","AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-118","AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-122"]}