South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 44 - Department of Health
Article 44:75 - Hospital, specialized Hospital critical access Hospital, and rural emergency Hospital facilities
Chapter 44:75:04 - Management and Administration
Section 44:75:04:06 - Personnel health program

The facility shall have a personnel health program for the protection of the patients. All personnel must be evaluated by a licensed health professional for freedom from reportable communicable disease which poses a threat to others before assignment to duties or within fourteen days after employment 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 which 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.

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

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13(1) -(5)(14).

Definitions and reportable diseases, ch 44:20:01.