Re: Licensure Requirement
Tony Barr
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Re: Licensure Requirement
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Tony Barr
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I completely agree with your assessment of accoutability being perhaps the most important benefit of licensure.
ABC was not formed to be and has not functioned as a proper overseer of their certified members.
With the intervention of providers having less stringent educational requirements there has been no oversight , accountability or consumer recourse to any certified abusers let alone those that have no qualifications or certification at all.
Perhaps the state and federal licensure requirements will install minimumal (I hate that word) educational quidelines and accountability to a board of professionals and consumers.
Licensees are answerable to a higher authority of peers with the power to revoke or suspend a license and impose fines for improper treatment. It will take some time but eventually the weeds will be eliminated!! Weeds that are preventing the consumer from recieving better coverage and preventing the O&P professional from being reimbursed adequately for the important health care service that they provide.
Congratulations on the State of Washington's regulation effort! You can now identify yourselves as LP or LPO and a licensed health care professional without regard of what type certification you hold.
Tony Barr
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there seems to be a lot of focus on the piece of paper that says someone
is educated. what i found quite useful in the Washington State Licensure
bill is a way to report unprofessional services and have a fair hearing to
keep such people from continuing to practice. eventually, the less
trained persons will be taken out of practice.
currently,most people who have received inadequate/incorrect professional
services from us have no way to seek restitution or keep that person from
further practice short of an expensive lawsuit.
since we don't have a good mechanism in place addressing this, it will
unfortunately come from big government.
Ramona M. Okumura, CP
Lecturer, Division Prosthetics Orthotics
Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, #356490
School of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-6490 USA
<Email Address Redacted>
FAX (206) 598-4761
ABC was not formed to be and has not functioned as a proper overseer of their certified members.
With the intervention of providers having less stringent educational requirements there has been no oversight , accountability or consumer recourse to any certified abusers let alone those that have no qualifications or certification at all.
Perhaps the state and federal licensure requirements will install minimumal (I hate that word) educational quidelines and accountability to a board of professionals and consumers.
Licensees are answerable to a higher authority of peers with the power to revoke or suspend a license and impose fines for improper treatment. It will take some time but eventually the weeds will be eliminated!! Weeds that are preventing the consumer from recieving better coverage and preventing the O&P professional from being reimbursed adequately for the important health care service that they provide.
Congratulations on the State of Washington's regulation effort! You can now identify yourselves as LP or LPO and a licensed health care professional without regard of what type certification you hold.
Tony Barr
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there seems to be a lot of focus on the piece of paper that says someone
is educated. what i found quite useful in the Washington State Licensure
bill is a way to report unprofessional services and have a fair hearing to
keep such people from continuing to practice. eventually, the less
trained persons will be taken out of practice.
currently,most people who have received inadequate/incorrect professional
services from us have no way to seek restitution or keep that person from
further practice short of an expensive lawsuit.
since we don't have a good mechanism in place addressing this, it will
unfortunately come from big government.
Ramona M. Okumura, CP
Lecturer, Division Prosthetics Orthotics
Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, #356490
School of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-6490 USA
<Email Address Redacted>
FAX (206) 598-4761
Citation
Tony Barr, “Re: Licensure Requirement,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 12, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/212551.
