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626.943  Powers and duties of the department.--It is the function of the department to:

(1)  Promulgate rules necessary to carry out the duties conferred upon it under this part to protect the public health, safety, and welfare.

(2)  Develop, impose, and enforce specific standards within the scope of the general qualifications established by this part which must be met by individuals in order to receive licenses as health care risk managers. These standards shall be designed to ensure that health care risk managers are individuals of good character and otherwise suitable and, by training or experience in the field of health care risk management, qualified in accordance with the provisions of this part to serve as health care risk managers, within statutory requirements.

(3)  Develop a method for determining whether an individual meets the standards set forth in s. 626.944.

(4)  Issue licenses, beginning on June 1, 1986, to qualified individuals meeting the standards set forth in s. 626.944.

(5)  Receive, investigate, and take appropriate action with respect to any charge or complaint filed with the department to the effect that a certified health care risk manager has failed to comply with the requirements or standards adopted by rule by the department or to comply with the provisions of this part.

(6)  Establish procedures for providing the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services with periodic reports on persons certified or disciplined by the department under this part.

(7)  Develop a model risk management program for health care facilities which will satisfy the requirements of s. 395.0197.

History.--ss. 38, 53, ch. 85-175; s. 32, ch. 88-166; s. 183, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 88, ch. 92-289.

¹Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.