S.D. Admin. R. 44:70:04:05

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 67, December 16, 2024
Section 44:70:04:05 - Personnel health program

The facility shall have a personnel health program for the protection of the residents. All personnel shall be evaluated by a licensed health professional for freedom from a reportable communicable disease that poses a threat to others before assignment to duties or within fourteen days after employment including an assessment of previous vaccinations and tuberculin skin tests. The facility may not allow anyone with a communicable disease, during the period of communicability, to work in a capacity that would allow spread of the disease. Any personnel absent from duty because of a reportable communicable disease that may endanger the health of residents and fellow personnel may not return to duty until they are determined by a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, or their designee to no longer have the disease in a communicable state.

S.D. Admin. R. 44:70:04:05

38 SDR 115, effective 1/9/2012; 50 SDR 019, effective 8/30/2023

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13(1)(5).

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13(1)(5).

Reportable diseases and conditions, ch 44:20:01.