Georgia's Professional Health Program

Verified facts

Program

Georgia Professional Health Program (GA PHP)

Organization

Georgia Professional Health Program

Location

Statewide, Georgia

Official website

https://gaphp.org/

Reported by the program

The program describes the following on its official information, reviewed on July 29, 2026.

What it is

The Georgia Professional Health Program provides confidential referral, treatment oversight, and monitoring for medical professionals with potentially impairing conditions, including mental illness and substance use disorders. Its listed services include outreach, crisis intervention, informal assessment, treatment monitoring, and support.

Its role

The program describes itself as the selected and contracted provider of the Georgia Composite Medical Board, and of the state veterinary board, for referral to evaluation or treatment and for monitoring of licensees who develop these conditions.

Confidentiality

It says Georgia statutes and board rules provide for a confidential program, and that it operates as a Part 2 program under the federal confidentiality rule for substance use disorder records, so participant records are protected from subpoena or disclosure without the participant's consent.

shrinkiatry context

The Georgia program is the physician and clinician mental health entry for the state, joining the others documented in this Atlas. It shows a slightly different structure than a medical-society-run program: here an independent organization holds the contract with the medical board, which is a common arrangement and one reason the confidentiality protections are spelled out so carefully. For a Georgia clinician, it's the confidential door that isn't the board itself.

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