{"id":"PA-055","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tom Wolf","authority":"35 Pa.C.S. § 7301(b), (f) (suspension of regulatory statutes and regulations)","instrument":"Order of the Governor to Enhance Protections for Health Care Professionals","title":"Order of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Enhance Protections for Health Care Professionals","dateIssued":"2020-05-06","effective":"2020-05-06","end":"For the duration of the disaster emergency (June 10, 2021); the regulatory suspensions it recites were carried to Sept. 30, 2021 by Act 21 (PA-040)","startDate":"2020-05-06","endDate":"2021-06-10","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["HC","EMP","OTHER"],"addressees":["licensed health care practitioners and facilities","Department of State licensing boards","Department of Health"],"clause":"WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority to suspend such regulatory statutes, rules or regulations, my Administration has suspended numerous regulatory statutes, [rules and regulations, including]... temporary suspension of the requirement for out-of-state practitioners to be licensed in Pennsylvania to practice telemedicine so long as they are licensed in good standing in their home [state]... temporary licenses to out-of-state practitioners regulated by the Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, [and Nursing]... requirements for the State Board of Nursing, including extension of license expirations dates... my Administration suspended 28 Pa. Code 51.3(a), thereby authorizing the immediate use of telemedicine to support health care... my Administration suspended 28 Pa. Code § 211.12(i), which requires that a nursing [facility maintain minimum nursing hours]... [and confers civil immunity on licensed health care practitioners providing COVID-19 services, excluding gross negligence, fraud, malice and willful misconduct]","enforcement":"35 Pa.C.S. § 7301(b); licensing boards","functions":["HR credentialing, out-of-State licensure, nurse staffing rules","TM telehealth authorization","IC","OF"],"notes":"The Governor\u0027s consolidated recital of the health-care regulatory suspensions; the companion Department of State summaries are PA-091, PA-092 and PA-097.","sourceUrl":"https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200506-GOV-health-care-professionals-protection-order-COVID-19.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200513154432/https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200506-GOV-health-care-professionals-protection-order-COVID-19.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":286855,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"PA","url":"/library/PA-055","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/PA-055","citation":"Governor Tom Wolf, Order of the Governor to Enhance Protections for Health Care Professionals (May 6, 2020) (Ex. PA-055)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["PA-040","PA-091","PA-092","PA-097","PA-057","PA-056","PA-111","PA-058","PA-060","PA-009","PA-012","PA-052"]}