ARSD 44:73:04:06. Personnel health program

The facility shall have a personnel health program for the protection of the residents. Before assignment to duties or within fourteen days after employment, a licensed health professional must evaluate all personnel to ensure no personnel is infected with any reportable communicable disease that poses a threat to others. The evaluation must include 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. 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 the personnel is 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.