<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title></title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0 { margin-top: 0; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; text-indent: 0.00in; text-align: justify; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; } span.sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0 { color: black; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000000 { color: #0000FF; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001 { color: black; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656000002 { color: black; background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000003 { color: #0000FF; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">    </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Rules?Rule=44:75:04:06"><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000000">44:75:04:06</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001">.  </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001">Personnel</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001"> health program.</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> The facility shall have </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">a personnel</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> health program for the protection of the patients. </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">Before assignment to duties or within fourteen days after employment, </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">personnel </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">must</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> be evaluated by a licensed health professional </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">to ensure they are not infected with any</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> reportable communicable disease </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">that</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> poses a threat to others 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 </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">that</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> may endanger the health of patients and fellow </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">personnel</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> 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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">    </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> 42 SDR 51, effective October 13, 2015</span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">; 50 SDR 62, effective November 27, 2023</span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">    </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001">General Authority:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=34-12-13"><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000003">34-12-13</span></a><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">(1)(5)(14).</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">    </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001">Law Implemented:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=34-12-13"><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000003">34-12-13</span></a><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">    </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000001">Cross-Reference:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> </span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">Definitions and r</span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">eportable diseases</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> and conditions</span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">, ch</span><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">apter</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0"> </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Rules?Rule=44:20:01"><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0-000003">44:20:01</span></a><span class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656C0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656P0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sdbe9ebf0-d2f5-4b52-8268-fbee6ebac656000002"> </span></p></div></body></html>