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- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- La. R.S. 40:4, 40:5; La. R.S. 29:760 et seq.
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-18
- End
- 2020-04-16 as written; superseded by ALL-010 effective 2020-04-27 (dental Section II continued to 2021-05-24) (read as 2020-04-16)
- In force
- Mar. 18, 2020 to Apr. 16, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureHealth care orders
- Addressees
- all dental providers in Louisiana (dentists and hygienists)
- Functions reached
- CH chairside care
- PR elective procedures
- EM emergency-only
- FD scheduling
- CB patients
- Collection
- Louisiana LA
Operative words
the State of Louisiana, Department of Health, is DIRECTING AND REQUIRING that all providers of dental services (including dentists and hygienists) in Louisiana adhere to the following provisions, restrictions, and limitations, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: A.1 The State of Louisiana, Department of Health, hereby prohibits all routine, non-essential dental visits and all routine, non-essential dental procedures/surgeries in Louisiana for thirty (30) days from the date of this Notice. This thirty (30) day period shall run from March 18, 2020, through April 16, 2020, unless otherwise extended in writing by the Department. A.2 Each provider of dental services shall immediately notify its clients and families of this closure.
Enforcement
State Health Officer directive; Sanitary Code; LSBD licensure
Notes
The dental closure instrument; the file was retrieved from the LDH URL 'HealthCareFacilityNotice.pdf' and is this dental notice.
Retrieval noteScanned; read by OCR.