S.D. Admin. R. 44:80:04:05
The facility shall have an employee health program for the protection of the residents. All personnel shall be evaluated by a licensed health professional for freedom from reportable communicable disease which poses a threat to others before assignment to duties or within 14 days after employment including an assessment of previous vaccinations and tuberculin skin tests. The hospice 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 which may endanger the health of residents and fellow employees may not return to duty until the person is determined by a physician, physicians designee, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist to no longer have the disease in a communicable stage.
S.D. Admin. R. 44:80:04:05
General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13(1), (5), and (14).
Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13(1), (5), and (14).
Reportable diseases and conditions, ch 44:20:01.