Illinois doctor records no longer online - Profiles once listed physicians' criminal convictions, malpractice payments

"Illinois once provided the public with detailed histories of the state's doctors — including whether the physician was convicted of a crime, fired by a hospital or forced to make a medical malpractice payment within the previous five years.

Judging from online traffic, there was great hunger for that information: During the two years that they were posted, the physician profiles generated 130,000 clicks per week.

But access to the profiles came to a screeching halt in February, when the state Department of Financial and Professional Regulation removed them from its Web site and placed them under lock and key — the latest chapter in a long political battle that has pitted patients' advocates against the state's medical lobby.

Now the only information available to the public is whether the regulatory agency has disciplined the doctor."

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Location Oakland, Ca - Private Investigator

Discipline for California Nurses Sanctioned in Other States is now checked by licensing agency

"After running its list of active and inactive nurses against a database maintained by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, BRN found that roughly 3,500 of its nurses have been punished for misconduct or even had their licenses revoked in other states while maintaining clean licenses in California. As many as 2,000 of these nurses will now face discipline in California.

Until 2008, BRN checked the records of only initial applicants for a California license, not renewals, against disciplinary actions in other states. BRN will now run quarterly record checks on California nurses to capture the most current information."
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Location Oakland, Ca - Private Investigator