(a) The State Board of Health Professions shall have the following powers and duties:(a) To evaluate the need for coordination among the health regulatory boards and their staffs and report its findings and recommendations to the boards;(b) To evaluate all health care professions and occupations in the state, including those regulated and those not regulated by other provisions of Title 73, Mississippi Code of 1972, and to consider whether each such profession or occupation should be regulated and the degree of regulation to be imposed. Whenever the board determines that the public interest requires that a health care profession or occupation that is not regulated by law should be regulated, the board shall recommend to the Legislature a regulatory system to establish the appropriate degree of regulation;(c) To serve as a forum for resolving conflicts among the health regulatory boards;(d) To advise the Governor and the Legislature on matters relating to the regulation or deregulation of health care professions and occupations;(e) To make bylaws for the governing of the board and the proper fulfillment of its duties under this chapter;(f) To promote the development of standards to evaluate the competency of the professions and occupations represented on the board;(g) To review periodically the investigatory, disciplinary and enforcement processes of the individual health regulatory boards to ensure the protection of the public and the fair and equitable treatment of health professionals; and(h) To examine scope of practice conflicts involving regulated and unregulated health care professions and occupations and advise the health regulatory boards and the Legislature of the nature and degree of such conflicts.
(a) To evaluate the need for coordination among the health regulatory boards and their staffs and report its findings and recommendations to the boards;
(b) To evaluate all health care professions and occupations in the state, including those regulated and those not regulated by other provisions of Title 73, Mississippi Code of 1972, and to consider whether each such profession or occupation should be regulated and the degree of regulation to be imposed. Whenever the board determines that the public interest requires that a health care profession or occupation that is not regulated by law should be regulated, the board shall recommend to the Legislature a regulatory system to establish the appropriate degree of regulation;
(c) To serve as a forum for resolving conflicts among the health regulatory boards;
(d) To advise the Governor and the Legislature on matters relating to the regulation or deregulation of health care professions and occupations;
(e) To make bylaws for the governing of the board and the proper fulfillment of its duties under this chapter;
(f) To promote the development of standards to evaluate the competency of the professions and occupations represented on the board;
(g) To review periodically the investigatory, disciplinary and enforcement processes of the individual health regulatory boards to ensure the protection of the public and the fair and equitable treatment of health professionals; and
(h) To examine scope of practice conflicts involving regulated and unregulated health care professions and occupations and advise the health regulatory boards and the Legislature of the nature and degree of such conflicts.