The facility shall have a personnel health program for the protection of the patients. Before assignment to duties or within fourteen days after employment, personnel must be evaluated by a licensed health professional to ensure they are not infected with any reportable communicable disease that poses a threat to others including an assessment of previous vaccinations, tuberculin skin tests, or blood assay test. 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 patients and fellow personnel may not return to duty until they are determined by a physician, physician’s designee, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist to no longer have the disease in a communicable stage.

Source: 42 SDR 51, effective October 13, 2015 ; 50 SDR 62, effective November 27, 2023 .

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13 (1)(5)(14).

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13 .

Prior versions effective: 2015-10-13.