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§ 6821

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(a) The Commissioner shall forward the name of every health-care provider against whom a settlement is made or judgment is rendered under this chapter to the appropriate agency for licensure or professional registration and examination for review of the fitness of the health-care provider to practice the profession. In each case involving review of a health-care provider's fitness to practice under this chapter, the agency shall have the power, in appropriate cases, to take the following disciplinary action: (1) Censure, public or private; (2) Imposition of probation for determinate period; (3) Suspension of the health-care provider's license for a determinate period; (4) Revocation of the license; or (5) In the instance of institutional or corporate providers, the ordering of temporary or permanent cessation of the particular program, procedure or service resulting in the claim or judgment, and/or the ordering, monitoring and evaluation of corrective action necessary to bring such activity into compliance with contemporary standards. (b) Review of the health-care provider's fitness to practice shall be conducted in accordance with the applicable

action necessary to bring such activity into compliance with contemporary standards. (b) Review of the health-care provider's fitness to practice shall be conducted in accordance with the applicable procedures set forth in Title 16 or 24, or other applicable provisions, and shall include a determination of whether a provider has been shown to be unfit to continue the practice of the profession because of a series of actions presumed to be medical negligence, because of verdicts or settlements against the provider, or because of a single case in which the act or omission is considered to include gross negligence on the provider's part.60 Del. Laws, c. 373, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 373, § 3;