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The AVMA Division of Land Advocacy researched state laws and regulations that authorize or establish wellbeing programs for licensed veterinarians. Some programs cover other licensed veterinarian professionals such every bit veterinary technicians. These laws and regulations vary in scope and mission; the programs can include peer assistance, professional recovery, dependency, impairment and diversion. The enquiry below includes confidentiality provisions that we found that employ to participants in such programs.

Note that there may be programs available to veterinary professionals that our legislative inquiry did not identify. Delight contact your own state board of veterinary medicine if no specific program is listed for your jurisdiction. Moreover, if your land is not indicated as having a confidentiality law or regulation in the nautical chart beneath, keep in mind that mental wellness and dependency programs typically maintain customer confidentiality nonetheless. To be sure, contact the programme about its confidentiality and reporting policies.

Our inquiry found laws and regulations authorizing or establishing specific wellbeing programs bachelor to veterinary professionals in 36 states and District of Columbia. Such provisions were not foundin Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, W Virginia and Wisconsin.

In usa with authorized or established wellbeing programs, all merely 9 states provide or offer some blazon of confidentiality protection to participants in these programs. We did not notice such confidentiality provisions for programs in Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming.

Additionally, the efforts of the legal, medical and pharmacy professions in this area are summarized below, followed by the chart of veterinary wellbeing state programs and confidentiality provisions. We will update this information as nosotros acquire of new programs or changes to current ones.

American Bar Clan

  • Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs: The American Bar Association's Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs has the mandate to educate the legal profession concerning alcoholism, chemic dependencies, stress, depression, and other emotional wellness bug; and assist and support all bar associations and lawyer assistance programs in developing and maintaining methods of providing effective solutions for recovery.

  • National Helpline for Judges Helping Judges: Judges who need assistance because of alcoholism, substance corruption, addiction or mental wellness bug may reach other judges who are in recovery or who have gone through treatment by calling a helpline sponsored by the American Bar Association. All information is confidential and protected past statute.

American Medical Association

  • There is no specific mention of wellbeing programs on the American Medical Association website.

  • Individual state medical associations conduct their ain wellbeing programs. Here are two examples:

    • llinois State Medical Society: Many hospitals have employee assistance programs designed to help individuals place and resolve a broad range of employee personal concerns that may impact chore performance. These programs deal with situations such equally substance corruption, marital problems, family troubles, stress, and domestic violence. Resident members of the Illinois State Medical Gild can participate without charge in the Illinois Professionals Health Program (IPHP). IPHP services are confidential and voluntary, and advice with the IPHP is exclusively confidential. The IPHP's activities are strictly limited to providing assistance and advocacy.

    • Indiana State Medical Clan offers a Physician Assist Program, saying on its website: "Experience indicates that an untreated psychiatric, substance abuse or stress disorder can eventually lead to issues in the medical practice. Obtaining assistance during these troubled times tin can exist of benefit to the physician personally and can assistance avert a crisis in the professional workplace." Co-ordinate to state and federal law and ISMA programme policies, all participant information is confidential. Only in rare instances is the program required to report a physician to the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana. Besides, only under limited circumstances can the program be compelled to disembalm information to tertiary parties.

American Dental Association

  • Dentist Wellness and Wellbeing Plan: The Dentist Health and Wellbeing Program provides support for American Dental Association members needing information on ergonomics in their dental exercise, prescription opioids and abuse prevention, and substance use and mental health. It also provides resources to help dentists be proactive in looking at their ain health and wellbeing.

  • Country-led wellbeing programs. One example is the Indiana Dental Clan'south Wellbeing Plan, which, according to its website: "addresses the needs of dentists impaired by substance corruption or chemic dependence. Identifying and assisting a dentist with signs and symptoms of impairment is a hard challenge. Fears of legal and personal risk prevent colleagues from condign involved. These fears oft are compounded by a lack of confidence in the power to accurately diagnose impairing illnesses, particularly chemical dependency. ... According to federal police force, country law and IDA program policies, all participant information is confidential. The IDA does non automatically refer a dentist to the licensing lath for a small infraction of the contract. Information technology is merely after all attempts to work with a dentist have failed that a referral is fabricated to the Indiana State Board of Dentistry."

American Pharmacists Association

  • In that location is no specific mention of wellbeing programs on the American Pharmacists Clan website. Still, the website states that the clan "supports and encourages a cooperative effort among country and national pharmacy associations, country boards of chemist's, and state legislative bodies to authorize, develop, implement and maintain mechanisms for the comprehensive funding of state recovery programs for pharmacists, student pharmacists and chemist's technicians."

  • Although not all states have programs, there are some state-led wellbeing programs. Hither are 2 examples:

    • Indiana Pharmacists Brotherhood offers the Pharmacists Recovery Network of Indiana (PRNIndiana), which it says "serves equally an advocacy group for impaired and recovering pharmacists. The PRNIndiana board, which is made upwardly of both recovering and non-recovering pharmacists, works closely with the Indiana Board of Pharmacy in managing the recovery and monitoring process of pharmacists in the land. The state lath ofttimes refers clients to the PRN lath for monitoring following a hearing by the lath where a chemist is found to be in violation of their license." All calls to the Pharmacists Recovery Network are confidential. The Indiana Pharmacists Alliance too formed its Impaired Pharmacist Committee in 1976. The committee, which the brotherhood says was the first formed by a state association, aimed "to support and help pharmacists who were physically and/or emotionally handicapped with their right to work and/or to go appropriate aid."

State-by-Land Wellbeing Programs for Veterinarian Professionals

State Statutory/Regulatory Provisions Confidentiality Contact
Alabama Alabama Veterinary Professionals Wellness Commission
* Ala. Lawmaking 1975 §34-29-111
All information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other documents furnished to or produced past the Alabama Veterinary Professionals Wellness Committee and whatever findings, conclusions, recommendations or reports resulting from the investigations, interventions, treatment, or rehabilitation, or other proceedings of such commission are declared to be privileged and confidential.

Alabama Veterinarian Professionals Wellness Program
2148 Greensprings Hwy.
Birmingham, AL 35205
Ofc: 205-326-8080

Confidential Phone: 205-317-9744
Fax: 205-326-8085
Email: alvetwellness at gmail [dot] com

Alabama Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 803
Fayetteville, TN 37334
Ph: 334-603-6227

Alaska N/A N/A

AVMA Delegate for the Alaska State Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 1231
Bismarck, ND 58502
Ph: 701-221-7740
Fax: 701-751-4451
Email: info at akvma [dot] org

Arizona

The Board of Veterinary Medicine may establish a program for the handling and rehabilitation of licensees or certificate holders who are impaired by alcohol or drug abuse.

The Lath may contract with other private organizations to implement this program

*A.R.S. § 32-2209

Participants in the plan are either confidential or known:

  1. Confidential participants are self-referred and may remain unidentified to the Lath, subject to maintaining compliance with their not-disciplinary and confidential contract with the plan administrator;
  2. Known participants are under Board discipline society to complete a minimum plan tenure.
Arizona Veterinarian Medical Association
100 W. Coolidge St., Phoenix, AZ 85013
Ph: 602-242-7936
Fx: 602-249-3828
Email: office at azvma [dot] org
Arkansas N/A N/A Arkansas Veterinarian Medical Clan
PO Box 17687
Petty Rock, AR 72222
Ph: 501-868-3036
Fax: 501-868-3034
Email: info at arkvetmed [dot] org

Peer Assistance:
Mike Beard
2845 Prince St
Conway, AR 72034
Ph: 501-329-2244

California

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Diversion Program for Veterinarians and Registered Veterinary Technicians

*16 CCR § 2075
*16 CCR § 2082

All Board, Diversion Committee and Plan records relating to a veterinary'southward or registered veterinary technician'due south application to the program shall be kept confidential...

including all data provided by the applicant, or by an examining md, to the programme manager, a medical consultant, members of a diversion commission, or other employees of the Board in connectedness with the program.
California Veterinarian Medical Association Wellness Plan
1400 River Park Drive
Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95815
Ph: 916-649-0599
Fax: 916-646-9156
E-mail: staff at cvma [dot] net

Veterinarian Medical Board'due south Confidential Diversion Programme
Ph: 916-515-5220

Program brochure

Colorado

Veterinarian Peer Health Assist Programme

* C.R.S.A. § 12-64-124
* C.R.S.A. § 12-64-126

If the Board of Veterinary Medicine determines that a licensed veterinary who submitted to an examination…is able to return express services with reasonable skill and safety to patients and clients, the Board may enter into a confidential agreement with the licensed veterinarian in which the licensed veterinarian agrees to limit his or her do based on the restrictions imposed by the illness, condition, or disorder.

Colorado Veterinary Medical Association - Concerned Colorado Veterinarians
191 Yuma St., Denver, CO 80233
Ph: 303-318-0447
Fax: 303-318-0450
E-mail: info at colovma [dot] org

Peer Health Assistance Program
2170 Due south Parker Road, Suite 229
Denver, CO 80231
Ph: 303-369-0039
Toll-free: 866-369-0039
Fax: 303-369-0982

200 Grand Avenue
Suite 270
Grand Junction, CO 81501
Ph: 970-986-4360


Client Services Manager:
Katherine Garcia
Ph: 303-369-0039 ext. 230
E-mail: kgarcia at peerassist [dot] org

Program Manager:
Chris Kesterson
Ph: 303-369-0039 ext. 206
E-mail: ckesterson at peerassist [dot] org

Peer Assistance:
Dr. William (Bill) Fredregill
Veterinary Medical Clinic
211 El Camino St.
Sterling, CO 80751
Ofc: 970-522-3321
Fax: 970-522-3351
Electronic mail: billfred at vetmedclinic [dot] com

Connecticut Health Assistance Intervention Network (HAVEN)

*Connecticut Full general Statute Sec. 19a-12a

The program shall exist an alternative, voluntary, and confidential opportunity for the rehabilitation of wellness care professionals and persons who have practical to become health care professionals.

All information given or received in connection with any intervention, rehabilitation, referral assistance or support services provided by the assistance program pursuant to this section, including the identity of whatever health care professional seeking or receiving such intervention, rehabilitation, referral assist or support services shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed.

Wellness Assistance Intervention Network (Haven)
1210 Mill Street
E Berlin, CT 06023
Maureen Sullivan Dinnan, J.D., Executive Managing director
Email: mdinnan at haven-ct [dot] org
Ph: 860-828-3175
Confidential Fax: 860-828-3192

Connecticut Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 107
Glastonbury, CT 06033
Ph: 860-635-7770
Fax: 860-659-8772
Email: info at ctvet [dot] org

Delaware

Voluntary Handling Selection

*24 Del. Admin. Code 3300-11.0

Entry of the regulated professional into a treatment program approved by the participating Board.

The regulated professional'south records of participation in the Voluntary Handling Pick will not reflect disciplinary action and shall non exist considered public records open to public inspection.
Delaware Professionals' Health Monitoring Program
1220 SW Morrison St
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97205
Ph: 855.575.9350
E-mail: RbhMonitoring at ReliantBH [dot] com

Delaware Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 9997
Newark, DE 19714
Ph: 302-455-8387
E-mail: info at devma [dot] org

District of Columbia

Voluntary limitation or surrender of license by impaired wellness professional

* DC ST § iii-1205.18

As a condition for accepting the voluntary limitation of practice, the Lath of Veterinary Medicine may crave the licensee, registrant, or person certified to practice 1 or more of the following:

  1. Accept intendance, counseling, or treatment by physicians or other health professionals acceptable to the Board;
  2. Participate in a programme of education prescribed by the Board; and
  3. Practice under the direction of a health professional acceptable to the Board for a specified menses of time.
All records, communications, and proceedings of the Board related to the voluntary limitation or surrender of a license, registration, or certification under this department shall be confidential.

9855 Lomax Route
Faulkner, MD 20632
Ph: 240-412-4517
Email: %20info at dcvma [dot] org

Florida

Dumb Practitioner Program

* West's F.S.A. § 474.221
* West'south F.Southward.A. § 456.076

Veterinarians licensed shall be governed by the dumb practitioner program equally if they were under the jurisdiction of the Division of Medical Quality Assurance, except that for veterinarians the Section of Business and Professional Regulation shall, at its option, exercise any of the powers granted to the Department of Health by that section, and "lath" shall mean board as defined in this affiliate.

All information obtained by the consultant pursuant to this section is confidential and exempt from southward. 119.07(i) and due south. 24(a), Art. I of the Country Constitution.
Florida Veterinary Medical Association
7207 Budgetary Bulldoze
Orlando, FL 32809
Ph: 407-851-3862
Toll-free: 800-992-3862
Fax: 407-240-3710
E-mail: info at fvma [dot] org

Peer Assistance:
Dr. Steve Woodby
Calusa Crossings Animal Infirmary
12801 SW 134th Ave.
Miami, FL 33186
Ofc: 305-234-1044
Prison cell: 305-281-0257
Fax: 305-234-1099

Georgia

Georgia Veterinarian Medical Clan has a Wellness Commission with the post-obit objectives and duties:

  1. To identify and verify veterinarians, family members, or staff members who are impaired past reason of their habit to or corruption of drugs including alcohol;
  2. To persuade impaired veterinarians, family unit members, or staff members to seek treatment voluntarily;
  3. To assist veterinarians, family unit members, or staff members through positive peer support to resume useful personal and professional person productivity;
  4. Assistance with finding relief veterinarians as needed;
  5. Undergo intervention training and help professional interveners; and
  6. Monitor progress of treatment as agreed upon in the contract with the individual.
* Article 10, Department 2
Due north/A GVMA Wellbeing & Resilience Committee Chair: Laura Smallwood, DVM, ACVIM
St. Francis Veterinary Specialists
625 Dekalb Industrial Way, Ste. 500
Decatur, GA 30033
Work: (404) 924-2000
Fax: (404) 974-2006
Email: laurajean335 at gmail [dot] com
Georgia VMA
2200 Century Parkway,
Suite 725
Atlanta, GA 30345
Ph: 678-309-9800
Toll-free: 800-853-1625
Email: gvma at gvma [dot] net
Hawaii N/A N/A

Hawaii Veterinarian Medical Association
P.O. Box 61309
Honolulu, HI 96839
Ph: 808-369-9756
Email: contact at hawaiivetmed [dot] org

Peer Assistance:
HVMA Veterinarian Health Committee
contact at hawaiivetmed [dot] org

Idaho N/A Due north/A

Idaho Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 241
Timnath, CO 80547
Ph: 800-272-1813
Fax: 877-334-2565
Email: info at ivma [dot] org

Peer Assistance:
Dr. Jeff Heins
200 S. Hwy. 24
Rupert, ID 83350
Ofc: 208-436-9818
Email: jbrac at pmt [dot] org

Dr. John Hoch
421 22nd Street, North.
Lewiston, ID 83501
Ofc: 208-743-6553
Fax: 208-743-4564

Illinois

Dumb Veterinary Programme of Care, Counseling or Treatment

* 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1500.51
The contents of any report shall be strictly confidential and shall be exempt from public disclosure. Illinois Country Veterinary Medical Association
1121 Chatham Route,
Springfield, IL 62704
Ph: 217-546-8381
Fax: 217-546-5633
Email: info at isvma [dot] org
Indiana

Rehabilitation of an Impaired Veterinary Health Intendance Provider

The Board of Veterinary Medicine may enter into agreements, provide grants, and make other arrangements with statewide nonprofit professional entities specifically devoted to the rehabilitation of impaired health care professionals to identify and aid impaired veterinary health care providers.

* IC 25-38.1-5-ane
* IC 25-38.1-five-2

All:

  1. Data furnished to a nonprofit professional association, foundation, or other entity devoted to the rehabilitation of dumb health intendance professionals; and
  2. Findings, conclusions, or recommendations that issue from a proceeding of the professional clan, foundation, or other entity devoted to the rehabilitation of dumb health care professionals;
are privileged and confidential.
Indiana Veterinary Medical Association Well-Being Programme
Ph: 317-627-0290
Email: veterinarywellbeing at invma [dot] org

Indiana Veterinarian Medicial Association
1202 E. 38th Street, Suite 200
Indianapolis, IN 46205
Ph: 317-974-0888
Toll-free: 800-270-0747
Fax: 317-974-0985
Email: info at invma [dot] org

Iowa

There is nothing specific in the Iowa Veterinary Practice Act regarding wellness.

However, the Board of Veterinary Medicine can have a licensee submit to a physical or mental test by designated physician.

* I.C.A. § 169.13
The medical testimony or examination reports shall not be used against a veterinarian in another proceeding and are confidential except for other actions filed confronting a veterinarian to revoke or suspend that person'south license.

Iowa Veterinary Medical Association
1605 North Ankeny Blvd
Suite 110
Ankeny, IA 50023
Ph: 515-965-9237
Fax: 515-965-9239
Email: ivma at iowavma [dot] org

Peer Help:
Dr. Bruce Ennen
Edgewood Animate being Infirmary
3434 Midway Dr. NW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52405
Ofc: 319-536-1934
Cell: 563-506-6007
Email: ennen94 at gmail [dot] com

Kansas

Impaired Veterinarian Committee

* One thousand.S.A. 47-848
* One thousand.South.A. 47-849

The reports and records made ...shall be confidential and privileged, including:

  1. Reports and records of executive or review committees of a professional society or organization;
  2. Reports and records of the Board or impaired veterinary committee of a professional person club or arrangement; and
Reports made pursuant to this human activity to or past any commission or any consultant.

Kansas Veterinary Medical Association
715 Washington Street
Lyndon, KS 66451
Ph: 785-221-0312
Fax: 785-233-2534
Email: info at ksvma [dot] org

Kentucky

Veterinary Wellness Commission

* KRS § 321.237
Other provisions of police notwithstanding, all Board and committee records pertaining to the veterinarian health plan shall be kept confidential. Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association
108 Consumer Lane
Frankfort, KY 40601
Ph: 502-226-5862
Toll-free: 800-552-5862
Fax: 502-226-6177
Electronic mail: info at kvma [dot] org

Peer Assistance:
Dr. Sam Vaughn
203 Moser Rd.
Louisville, KY 40223
Ofc: 502-245-7863
Fax: 502-245-2869
Email: aviansam at gmail [dot] com

Brian Fingerson, PharmD
Email: kyprn at att [dot] cyberspace

Louisiana

Peer Assistance Program for Impaired Veterinarians

* La. Admin Lawmaking. tit. 46, pt. LXXXV, § 901
* La. Admin Lawmaking. tit. 46, pt. LXXXV, § 905

N/A

Louisiana Veterinary Medical Clan
8550 United Plaza Blvd
Suite 1001
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Ph: 225-928-5862
Toll-free: 800-524-2996
Fax: 225-408-4422
E-mail: office at lvma [dot] org

Maine

Maine Medical Professionals Health Program.

* https://www.mainemphp.org/mphp-programme.html

Information shared with the program concerning a healthcare professional seeking or receiving assist is confidential.

Equally the MPHP program is operated in an upstanding manner, confidentiality is limited simply past overreaching responsibility for public safety -issues that could foreseeably result in patient damage must be reported under protocols negotiated with the licensing boards.

Maine Medical Professionals Wellness Program
20 Pelton Colina Road
Manchester, ME 04351
Ph: 207-623-9266
Email: mphp at mainemed [dot] com

Maine Veterinary Medical Clan
97A Substitution Street
Suite 305
Ph: 800-448-2772
E-mail: info at mainevetmed [dot] org

Peer Help:
Dr. Burleigh Loveitt
Rte. 35 & Rte. 202
Hollis Center, ME 04401
Ofc: 207-839-4881
Cell: 207-831-4422

Maryland

There is goose egg specific in the Maryland Veterinary Practice Act regarding health.

Nevertheless, the Board of Veterinary Medicine tin can take a licensee submit to a physical or mental examination by designated physician.

* MD Code, Agriculture, § 2-307.1

The study or testimony of an examining physician or other person designated by the Board is confidential except as to contested case proceedings every bit defined past the Authoritative Procedure Deed.

Maryland HealthCare Professionals Program
1202 Maryland Avenue
2nd Fl.
Baltimore, MD 21201
To make a referral: Michael Llufrio
Ph: 410-962-5580
Price-costless: 800-992-7010
Email: mllufrio at medchi [dot] org

Maryland Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 5407
Annapolis, Doc 21403
Ph: 410-268-1311
Email: info at mdvma [dot] org

Massachusetts

An impaired licensee may self-refer to a Board-approved supervised drug or alcohol counseling and testing program unless in that location is a complaint awaiting with the Lath regarding that licensee.

Following the filing of a complaint, equally an alternative to subject field, the Board may, by means of a consent agreement, refer an dumb licensee to a supervised drug or alcohol counseling and testing plan.

* 256 CMR 6.04

Due north/A Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association
Mental Health Resource
163 Lakeside Ave.
Marlborough, MA 01752
Ph: 508-460-9333
Fax: 508-460-9969
Email: admin at massvet [dot] org
Michigan

Health Professional person Recovery Commission

* One thousand.C.L.A. 333.16167
* Thou.C.Fifty.A. 333.16170a

The identity of a health professional who participates in the health professional person recovery plan is confidential and is not subject to disclosure under discovery or subpoena or the freedom of information deed... unless the wellness professional fails to satisfactorily participate in and complete a handling plan prescribed under the health professional recovery program.

If a wellness professional successfully participates in and completes a treatment program...the section shall destroy all records pertaining to the impairment of the health professional, including records pertaining to the health professional person'southward participation in the treatment plan, upon the expiration of 5 years after the engagement of the commission's conclusion.

Wellness Professional Recovery Program
P.O. Box 842
Troy, MI 48099
Ph: 800-453-3784
Fax: 248-519-0373
Email: hprp at hprp [dot] org

Michigan Veterinary Medical Association
2144 Commons Pkwy.
Okemos, MI 48864
Ph: 517-347-4710
Fax: 517-347-4666
Email: mvma at michvma [dot] org

Minnesota

Health Professionals Services Program (HSAP)

Non-Regulatory Health and Peer Assistance Committee

* http://mn.gov//boards/hpsp/
* http://www.mvma.org/committees
* 1000.Due south.A. § 156.125

HSAP is confidential and non-disciplinary.

Minnesota Wellness Professionals Services Program (HSAP)
1380 Energy Lane, Ste. 202
St. Paul, MN 55108
651-642-0487

Minnesota Veterinary Medicial Association
101 Bridgepoint Style
Suite 100
Southward St. Paul, MN 55075
Ph: 651-645-7533
Fax: 651-645-7539
Email: info at mvma [dot] org
Mississippi

Dumb Veterinarians Program

* Miss. Code Ann. § 73-39-79

According to the State Board, if a veterinary self-admits to the plan set forth through the Lath, he or she may remain anonymous to the Board as long as the person complies with the stipulations gear up along by the program.

Mississippi Veterinarian Medical Association
PO Box 395
Clinton, MS, 39060
Ph: 662-323-5057
E-mail: msvetmed at gmail [dot] com

Missouri

N/A N/A

Missouri Veterinarian Medical Association
2500 State Club Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65109
Ph: 573-636-8612
Fax: 573-659-7175
Eastward-post: mvma at movma [dot] org
rantweiler at movma [dot] org

Montana N/A Due north/A Montana Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 6322
Helena, MT 59604
Ph: 406-447-4259
Email: info at mtvma [dot] org

Peer Assist:
Dr. Jim Curtis
P.O. Box 1604
Malta, MT 59538
Ph: 406-654-2058
E-mail: docurtis at mtintouch [dot] cyberspace

Nebraska

Licensee Assistance Programme

* Neb. Rev. St. § 38-175

Participation in the program shall be confidential, except that if whatever evaluation by the program determines that the corruption, dependence, or active habit may be of a nature which constitutes a danger to the public wellness and rubber by the person's continued practice or if the person fails to comply with any term or condition of a treatment plan, the programme shall report the same to the manager. Nebraska Licensee Assistance Program
Middle Pointe Professional Plaza
9239 W. Centre Road
Suite 201
Omaha, NE 68124
Ph: 402-354-8055
Toll-gratis: 800-851-2336
Fax: 402-354-8046
E-mail: lapne at bestcareeap [dot] org

Program brochure

Nebraska Veterinarian Medical Clan
Dina Michel, Executive Director
P.O. Box 637
Hastings, NE 68902
Ph: 402-463-4704
Email: DMichel at nvma [dot] org

Nevada

The Board of Veterinary Medicine may order that person to undergo a mental or physical examination or an examination testing his or her competence to exercise veterinary medicine if it has reason to believe that the comport of any veterinary or veterinarian technician has raised a reasonable question as to his or her competence to practice veterinarian medicine or to human activity as a veterinary technician.

This examination must be conducted past physicians or other persons designated by the Board

The Nevada Veterinary Medical Association has an Impairment Committee.

* North.R.S. 638.142

The testimony or reports of the examining physicians or other persons designated past the Board are privileged communication, except as to proceedings conducted pursuant to this chapter.

Nevada Veterinarian Medical Association: Impairment Commission
P.O. Box 34420
Reno, NV 89533
Ph: 775-324-5344
Fax: 775-323-1432
Email: nevadavma at sbcglobal [dot] internet

Peer Assist:
Dr. Randy Sharp, Senior Staff Veterinary Charles River Laboratories
6995 Longley Lane
Reno, NV 89511
Ofc: 775-682-2658
Cell: 775-527-33277
Email: randy [dot] sharp at crl [dot] com

New Hampshire

Non-regulatory Impairment (Wellness Commission)

* Commodity V, Section 8

Northward/A

New Hampshire Professionals Health Program
Dr. Sally Garhart, Medical Managing director
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 6274
Function Accost: 109 Ponemah Road
Unit E 4
Amherst, NH 03031
Ph: 603-491-5036
Fax: 603-924-0161
E-mail: sgarhart at nhphp [dot] org

Wellness Committee, New Hampshire Veterinarian Medical Association
Dr. George Messenger, Chair
xv Sanborn Rd.
Agree, NH 03301
Cell: 603-344-1038
Electronic mail: fishervet at aol [dot] com

New Hampshire VMA
PO Box 4017
Concord, NH 03302
Ph: 603-774-8021
Fax: 603-774-8022
Electronic mail: nhvma at comcast [dot] internet

New Jersey N/A N/A

Professional Aid Program of NJ
742 Alexander Road
Suite 105
Princeton, NJ 08540
Ph: 609-919-1660
Fax: 609-919-1611
Email: steve [dot] giacolona at papnj [dot] org

New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association
390 Amwell Road
Suite 402
Hillsborough, NJ 08844
Ph: 908-281-0918
Fax: 908-450-1286
E-mail: info at njvma [dot] org

New United mexican states

Impaired-Veterinarian Committee

* N. Grand. Due south. A. 1978, § 61-14-5.i

Be a confidential source of treatment or referral for veterinarians who, on a voluntary basis and without the knowledge of the Lath, want to avail themselves of handling for emotionally based or chemical-dependence impairments.

New Mexico Veterinary Medical Association Peer Assistance and Wellness Back up Program
Julie Blossom, DVM
Email: nmvmapaws at gmail [dot] com

New Mexico VMA
sixty Placitas Trails Rd.
Placitas, NM 87043
Ph: 505-867-6373
Fax: 505-771-8963

New York

New York State Professional Assistance Plan

* McKinney's Education Law § 6510-b

All information concerning an application, other than the fact of the surrender of the license and the participation in the program and the successful completion or failure of or withdrawal from the program, shall be strictly confidential, and may not be released by the commission to any person or body without the consent of the licensee.

New York State Professional person Aid Program
lxxx Wolf Rd.
Suite 204
Albany, NY 12205
Ph: 518-474-3817, ext. 480
Fax: 518-485-9373
Email: pap at mail [dot] nysed [dot] gov

Program brochure

New York State Veterinary Medical Guild
100 Neat Oaks Blvd.
Suite 127
Albany, NY 12203
Ph: 518-869-7867
Toll-free: 800-876-9867
Electronic mail: staff at nysvms [dot] org

North Carolina

Programs for Impaired Veterinary Personnel

* N.C.Chiliad.S.A. § 90-187.15

Whatsoever confidential data or other nonpublic information acquired, created, or used in good faith past an dumb veterinary personnel organization or the Board regarding a participant pursuant to this department shall remain confidential and shall not exist discipline to discovery or amendment in a ceremonious instance, nor subject to disclosure as a public document by the Board.

North Carolina Physicians Health Program
220 Horizon Drive
Ste. 201
Raleigh, NC 27615
Ph: 919-870-4487 or 877-588-8089
Fax: 919-870-4484
Electronic mail: info at ncphp [dot] org

Peer Help:
Dr. Dennis Wages
4700 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, NC 27606
Ofc: 919-513-6282
Ph: 919-469-2863
Fax: 919-513-6383
Email: dennis_wages at ncsu [dot] edu

Dr. Ed Smallwood
Ph: 919-790-0298
Electronic mail: edandkay at nc [dot] rr [dot] com

North Dakota Due north/A Northward/A North Dakota Veterinary Medical Association
2304 Jackson Artery
Bismarck, ND 58501
Ph: 701-221-7740
Fax: 701-751-4451
Email: ndvma at btinet [dot] net
Ohio

Treatment providers for veterinarians with substance abuse problems

* R.C. § 4741.31
* OAC 4741-1-25

Whatever veterinarian who enters into treatment by an approved treatment provider shall be deemed to have waived any confidentiality requirements that would otherwise forbid the treatment provider from making reports required nether this department.

Treatment records concerning individuals who are receiving or who at any time have received services for mental affliction, alcoholism, or drug dependence which are maintained past the Lath are confidential and shall not exist made bachelor to the public.

Patient health care records are confidential and shall non be fabricated bachelor to the public.

Ohio Physicians Wellness Program
130 E. Chestnut Street
Ste. 400
Columbus, OH 43215
Ph: 614-841-9690
Fax: 614-469-9580
Electronic mail: info at ophp [dot] org

Ohio Veterinary Medical Association Wellness Committee:
Dr. Tim Kolb, Chair
1071 One-time Henderson Road
Columbus, OH 43220
Ofc: 614-451-4772
E-mail: tkolbdvm at msn [dot] com

Ohio VMA
1472 Manning Parkway
Powell, OH 43065
Ph: 614-436-1300
Price-free: 800-662-6862
Fax: 614-436-1301
Email: ohiovma at ohiovma [dot] org

Oklahoma

Inability to practice due to mental affliction or drug corruption

The Board'southward programme (OHPP) assists all professions.

* 59 Okl. St. Ann. § 698.14b

N/A

Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association
P.O. Box 14521
Oklahoma, OK 73113
Ph: 405-478-1002
Fax: 405-478-7193
Email: admin at okvma [dot] org

Peer Help:
Dr. Bob Poteet
Cedarwood Veterinarian Clinic
1412 S. Harvard
Tulsa, OK 74112
Ofc: 918-749-6588
Fax: 918-749-6695
Email: cvctulsa at aol [dot] com

Oregon N/A N/A Oregon Veterinarian Medical Association
1880 Lancaster Dr., NE Suite 118
Salem, OR, 97305
Ph: 503-399-0311
Toll-free: 800-235-3502
Fax: 503-363-4218
Email: contact at oregonvma [dot] org
Pennsylvania

Impaired Professional Programs

* 63 P.Due south. § 485.26a

N/A

Pennsylvania Professional Health Monitoring Plan
P.O. Box 10569
Harrisburg, PA 17105
Ph: 717-783-4857
Toll-gratuitous: 800-554-3428
Fax: 717-772-1950

Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association
8574 Paxton Street
Hummelstown, PA 17036
Ph: 717-220-1437
Fax: 717-220 1461
Electronic mail: info at pavma [dot] org

Puerto Rico N/A Northward/A Puerto Rico Veterinary Medical Association
352 Ave San Claudio
Ste. 248
San Juan, PR, 00926-4107
Ph: 787-283-0565
Fax: 787-761-344
Rhode Isle North/A Northward/A Rhode Island Veterinary Medical Association
302 Pearl Street #108
Providence, RI 02907
Ph: 401-751-0944
Fax: 401-780-0940
Email: info at rivma [dot] org
South Carolina

Grounds for revocation, pause, or refusal to renew license; mental or physical examinations

* Lawmaking 1976 § 40-69-110.

The Lath upon reasonable grounds may obtain records relating to the mental or physical condition of a licensee or applicant including, but non limited to, psychiatric records; and these records are open-door in a hearing before the Board, notwithstanding any other provision of police force.

For purposes of this department, a person who accepts the privilege of practicing veterinary medicine in this Land, or who files an application to practice veterinary medicine in this State, is deemed to take consented to the Board obtaining these records and to have waived all objections to the admissibility of these records in a hearing before the Board upon the grounds that the same constitutes a privileged advice.

South Carolina Recovering Professional Program
440 Knox Abbott Drive
Suite 220
Caycee, SC 29033
Ph: 803-896-5700
Cost-free: 877-349-2094
Fax: 803-896-5710

South Carolina Clan of Veterinarians
1215 Anthony Ave.
Columbia, SC 29201
Ph: 803-254-1027
Email: info at scav [dot] org

Due south Dakota

Wellness Professionals' Assistance Program

* SDCL § 36-2A-1
* SDCL § 36-2A-12

This is a confidential program designed to monitor the handling and continuing care of any regulated wellness professional who may be unable to practice with reasonable skill and condom, if the professional'southward mental health bug or substance use disorder is non appropriately managed

All records of health professionals' assistance programme participants are confidential and are not subject to discovery or subpoena.

Due south Dakota Wellness Professionals Assistance Program
4109 Due south. Carnegie Cir,
Sioux Falls, SD 57106
Ph: 605-275-4711
Fax: 605-275-4715
Email: amandam at mwhms [dot] com
mariae at mwhms [dot] com
sherryg at mwhms [dot] com
sueh at mwhms [dot] com
jillv at mwhms [dot] com

South Dakota Veterinary Medical Association
Box 2175, SDSU
Brookings, SD 57007
Ph: 605-688-6649
Electronic mail: info at sdvetmed [dot] org

Tennessee

Veterinarian Health Commission

* T. C. A. § 63-12-118

All data, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other information furnished to or produced past a veterinary wellness committee and whatsoever findings, conclusions, reports, or recommendations resulting from the proceedings of the committee are privileged and confidential.

Information and actions taken by the committee shall be privileged and held in strictest confidence and shall not be disclosed or required to be disclosed to whatsoever person or entity outside of the committee.
Tennessee Medical Foundation Physician'due south Health Programme
216 Centerview Drive
Ste. 304
Brentwood, TN 37027
Ph: 615-467-6411
Fax: 615-467-6419

Tennessee Veterinarian Health Program
Ph: 931-438-0070
E-mail: tvwp at tnvetwellness [dot] org

Tennessee Veterinarian Medical Association
Deloris Green Gaines, Executive Director
19 Lacy Route
P.O. Box 803
Fayetteville, TN 37344
Ph: 931-438-0070
Toll-costless: 800-697-3587
Fax: 931-433-6289
Electronic mail: green [dot] delo at gmail [dot] com%E2%80%8B"> green [dot] delo at gmail [dot] com

Texas

Peer Assistance Plan

* V.T.C.A., Occupations Lawmaking § 801.157

Northward/A Professional Recovery Network
Courtney Hulbert, Director
3200 Steck Ave.
Ste. 370
Austin, TX 78757
Ph: 512-615-9176
Toll-free: 800-727-5152
Fax: 512-836-0308
Email: cbolin at texaspharmacy [dot] org

Texas Veterinary Medical Clan
8104 Exchange Dr.
Austin, TX 78754
Ph: 512-452-4224
Fax: 512-452-6633
Electronic mail: info at tvma [dot] org

Utah

Recovery Aid Program

Utah Veterinary Medical Association has established a Membership Crisis Services

* http://uvma.net/wellness

During the course of the programme, participants undergo rehabilitation and maintenance of recovery in a confidential environment and are generally able to maintain their license. Utah Recovery Assistance Program
Charles W. Walton, Physician, Programme Director
P.O. Box 146741
Salt Lake Metropolis, UT 84114
Ph: 801-530-6106
Fax: 801-530-6404
Contact Dr. Walton

Utah Veterinary Medical Association Membership Crisis Services

Utah VMA
1615 Southward. State Street
Provo, UT 84606
Ph: 801-377-2890
Fax: 801-377-2893
Electronic mail: info at uvma [dot] internet

Peer Help:
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) McGill
Cell: 801-865-1220
Ofc: 800-426-2099
mcgill at animalreferencepathology [dot] com

Dr. Jamie Rees
Jail cell: 801-792-0162
Email: jamierees at mstar [dot] cyberspace

Vermont N/A N/A Vermont Veterinary Medical Association
Kathy Finnie, Executive Director
88 Beech Street
Essex Jct., VT 05452
Ph: 802-878-6888
Electronic mail: kathy at vtvets [dot] org
Virginia

Health Practitioners' Monitoring Plan Commission

* VA Code Ann. § 54.ane-2517

The Department of Health Professions has a contract ... to provide confidential services for the health practitioner.

Records of the Program, to the extent such records identify individual practitioners in the Program, shall be privileged and confidential, and shall not exist disclosed consequent with the Virginia Liberty of Information Human activity.

VVMA Employee Assistance Program
* Just for VVMA members & their families

Virginia Health Practitioners' Monitoring Program
701 East Franklin Street Suite 1407
Richmond, VA 23219
Toll-free: 866-206-4747
Fax: 804-828-5386
Electronic mail: vahpmp at vcuhealth [dot] org .

Virginia Veterinarian Medical Clan
Robin Schmitz, Executive Director
3801 Westerre Parkway, Suite D
Henrico, VA 23233
Ph: 804-346-2611
Toll-free: 800-937-8862
Fax: 804-346-2655
Email: robin at vvma [dot] org

Washington

Voluntary Substance Abuse Monitoring Programs

Impaired Veterinarian Programme

* W's RCWA 18.130.175
* West'southward RCWA 18.92.047

The treatment and pretreatment records of license holders referred to or voluntarily participating in approved programs shall exist confidential, shall be exempt from chapter 42.56 RCW, and shall not be subject to discovery by amendment or admissible every bit prove except for monitoring records reported to the disciplining authority for cause. Washington Physicians Wellness Plan
720 Olive Manner
Suite 1010
Seattle, WA 98101
Ph: 206-583-0127
Cost-free: 800-552-7236
Fax: 206-583-0418

Washington State Veterinary Medical Association
8024 Bracken Identify SE
Snoqualmie, WA 98065
Ph: 425-396-3191
Price-free: 800-399-7862
Fax: 425-396-3192
Email: info at wsvma [dot] org

West Virginia Due north/A N/A West Virginia Veterinary Medical Clan
3801 Westerre Parkway, Suite D
Henrico, VA 23233
Ph: 804-346-0170
Fax: 804-346-2655
Email: info at wvvma [dot] org
Wisconsin N/A N/A Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Clan
4610 S. Biltmore Lane
Suite 107
Madison, WI 53718
Ph: 608-257-3665
Fax: 608-257-8989
Email: wvma at wvma [dot] org
Wyoming

Wyoming Professional Aid Program

* W.S.1977 § 33-ane-115

Whatsoever data pertaining to the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, referral or handling of any licensee possessed in connection with the performance of whatsoever professional assist program shall be confidential and shall not exist disclosed except under the circumstances expressly authorized. Wyoming Professional person Help Program
Candice Cochran, Executive Director
400 Due east 1st Street, #206
Casper, WY 82601
Ofc: 307-427-1222
Toll-free: 866-277-6550
Jail cell: 307-441-4463
Email: candicec at wpapro [dot] org

Peer Assistance:
Dr. Gary Norwood
Frontier Veterinarian Clinic
501 Due east. Riding Club Route
Cheyenne, WY 82009
Ofc: 307-634-7255
Email: fvcdvm at aol [dot] com

Wyoming Veterinarian Medical Association
Ph: 800-272-1813
Fax: 877-334-2565
Email: info at wyvma [dot] org

Canada North/A N/A Dr. Lisa Miller
Acquaintance Dean of Academic Affairs
Atlantic Veterinarian College
Academy of Prince Edward Island
550 Academy Avenue
Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4P3
Ofc: 902-566-0858
Email: lmiller at upei [dot] ca

The AVMA State Advancement Segmentation conducted the initial research in December 2016. This information was later on updated with input from executive directors of state veterinary medical boards and state veterinary medical associations during January – April 2017.

In June 2019, the AVMA Land Advocacy Division conducted additional research and updated the information in this table

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Source: https://www.avma.org/advocacy/state-local-issues/state-wellbeing-programs-veterinary-professionals

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