44:77:04:05.  Caregiver health. 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. A caregiver with a reportable communicable disease that may endanger the health of a resident or fellow caregiver may not return to caregiving until the caregiver is determined by a physician or the physician's designee to no long have the disease in a communicable state.

          Source: 42 SDR 51, effective October 13, 2015.

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

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

          Cross-Reference: Definition of terms, subdivisions 44:20:01:01(8) and (43).