Each home care agency shall have written personnel policies that shall be available to each staff member and shall include the following:
Each home care agency shall maintain accurate personnel records, which shall include the following information:
Each home care agency shall comply with the Health-Care Facility Unlicensed Personnel Criminal Background Check Act of 1998, effective April 20, 1999, D.C. Law 12-238, and subsequent amendments thereto, D.C. Official Code § 44-551 et seq.
Each home care agency shall maintain its personnel records for all personnel serving patients within the District of Columbia in its operating office within the District of Columbia, or shall produce these records for inspection within twenty- four (24) hours, or within a shorter reasonable time if specified, upon the request of the Department of Health.
Each employee shall have a right to review his or her personnel records.
At the time of initial employment of each employee, the home care agency shall verify that the employee, within the six months immediately preceding the date of hire, has been screened for and is free of communicable disease.
Each employee shall be screened for communicable disease annually, according to the guidelines issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control, and shall be certified free of communicable disease.
No employee may provide home care services, and no agency may knowingly permit an employee to provide home care services, if the employee:
Each employee who is required to be licensed, certified or registered to provide services shall be licensed, certified or registered under the laws and rules of the District of Columbia.
Each home care agency shall document the professional qualifications of each employee or provider to ensure that the applicable licenses, certifications, accreditations or registrations are valid.
Each home care agency shall ensure that each employee or contract worker shall present a valid agency identification prior to entering the home of a patient.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 22, r. 22-B3907