Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES
Division 73 - Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators
Chapter 2 - General Rules
Section 19 CSR 73-2.051 - Retired Licensure Status

Universal Citation: 19 MO Code of State Regs 73-2.051

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024

PURPOSE: This amendment deletes the notarization requirement and clarifies the procedures to retire or reactivate the license.

(1) Any currently licensed administrator may request to retire the license if s/he has maintained an active Missouri license at least ten (10) years and has retired from the practice of long-term care administration.

(2) Licensees interested in making application shall submit the following information to the board prior to June 30 of the year of renewal of the administrator's active license:

(A) The fee referenced in 19 CSR 73-2.015; and

(B) Original wall license and all other evidence of licensure or evidence satisfactory to the board that the license has been lost, stolen, or destroyed.

(3) The board shall issue a new license to the licensee indicating that the licensee is retired once the board has received the required information and has approved the request for retired licensure status.

(4) A retired license may be reactivated within five (5) years of the granting of the retired license by filing the following information with the board:

(A) A request to reactivate the retired license;

(B) The fee referenced in 19 CSR 73-2.015; and

(C) Satisfactory evidence of the completion of twenty (20) clock hours of board approved continuing education , as described in 19 CSR 73-2.050, for each calendar year the license was retired. All clock hours shall be completed after the granting of the retired license or completed within the same licensure year the licensee was granted the retired license. The board may prorate the required clock hours for any portion of a calendar year as follows:
1. Ten (10) months or more, but less than twelve (12) months- twenty (20) clock hours (including a minimum of five (5) patient care hours);

2. Seven (7) months or more, but less than ten (10) months- fifteen (15) clock hours (including a minimum of five (5) patient care hours);

3. Four (4) months or more, but less than seven (7) months- ten (10) clock hours (including a minimum of two and one-half (2.5) patient care hours); or

4. Less than four (4) months-five (5) clock hours (including a minimum of two and one-half (2.5) patient care hours).

(5) If more than five (5) years have passed since the issuance of a retired license to a licensee, the licensee shall follow the procedures for initial licensure stated in section 344.030, RSMo.

(6) No person shall act or serve in the capacity of an administrator in this state or hold himself or herself out as an administrator if his or her license is retired.

(7) Retired licensees shall remain subject to disciplinary action for violations of Chapter 344, RSMo, and the rules promulgated thereunder.

*Original authority: 344.070, RSMo 1969, amended 1979, 1993, 1995, 2007.

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