20 CAR § 404-305 – Waiting for official check results

(a) After employment clearance is obtained from the online ECR system maintained by the Office of Long-Term Care and the person has not listed prior criminal convictions on the DMS-736 form, a facility may make an offer of temporary employment to an applicant or continued employment to an incumbent employee while waiting for the official criminal record check results.
(b) Facilities may choose to deny the applicant/employee unsupervised access to a person to whom the facility provides care until the criminal record check and determination of employment status have been completed.