ARSD 44:73:04:10. Prevention and control of pneumonia

Each facility shall arrange for immunization for pneumococcal disease. If immunization is lacking and the resident's physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner recommends immunization, the nursing facility must arrange for an immunization for pneumococcal pneumonia within fourteen days of the resident's admission. The facility shall record the immunization or the resident's refusal to receive the immunization in the resident's medical record.