Arizona Laws 36-411. Residential care institutions; nursing care institutions; home health agencies; fingerprinting requirements; exemptions; definitions
A. Except as provided in subsection F of this section, as a condition of licensure or continued licensure of a residential care institution, a nursing care institution or a home health agency and as a condition of employment in a residential care institution, a nursing care institution or a home health agency, employees and owners of residential care institutions, nursing care institutions or home health agencies, contracted persons of residential care institutions, nursing care institutions or home health agencies or volunteers of residential care institutions, nursing care institutions or home health agencies who provide medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services, health-related services, home health services or direct supportive services and who have not been subject to the fingerprinting requirements of a health professional’s regulatory board pursuant to title 32 shall have valid fingerprint clearance cards that are issued pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 12, Article 3.1 or shall apply for a fingerprint clearance card within twenty working days of employment or beginning volunteer work or contracted work.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-411
- Behavioral health services: means services that pertain to mental health and substance use disorders and that are either:
(a) Performed by or under the supervision of a professional who is licensed pursuant to title 32 and whose scope of practice allows the professional to provide these services. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Continuous: means available at all times without cessation, break or interruption. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Health care institution: means every place, institution, building or agency, whether organized for profit or not, that provides facilities with medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services, health screening services, other health-related services, supervisory care services, personal care services or directed care services and includes home health agencies as defined in section 36-151, outdoor behavioral health care programs and hospice service agencies. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Health-related services: means services, other than medical, that pertain to general supervision, protective, preventive and personal care services, supervisory care services or directed care services. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Medical services: means the services that pertain to medical care and that are performed at the direction of a physician on behalf of patients by physicians, dentists, nurses and other professional and technical personnel. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Nursing care institution: means a health care institution that provides inpatient beds or resident beds and nursing services to persons who need continuous nursing services but who do not require hospital care or direct daily care from a physician. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Nursing services: means those services that pertain to the curative, restorative and preventive aspects of nursing care and that are performed at the direction of a physician by or under the supervision of a registered nurse licensed in this state. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Residential care institution: means a health care institution other than a hospital or a nursing care institution that provides resident beds or residential units, supervisory care services, personal care services, behavioral health services, directed care services or health-related services for persons who do not need continuous nursing services. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Supervision: means directly overseeing and inspecting the act of accomplishing a function or activity. See Arizona Laws 36-401
B. A health professional who has complied with the fingerprinting requirements of the health professional’s regulatory board as a condition of licensure or certification pursuant to title 32 is not required to submit an additional set of fingerprints to the department of public safety pursuant to this section.
C. Owners shall make documented, good faith efforts to:
1. Contact previous employers to obtain information or recommendations that may be relevant to a person‘s fitness to work in a residential care institution, nursing care institution or home health agency.
2. Verify the current status of a person’s fingerprint clearance card.
D. An employee, an owner, a contracted person or a volunteer or a facility on behalf of the employee, the owner, the contracted person or the volunteer shall submit a completed application that is provided by the department of public safety within twenty days after the date the person begins work or volunteer service.
E. Except as provided in subsection F of this section, a residential care institution, nursing care institution or home health agency shall not allow an employee to continue employment or a volunteer or contracted person to continue to provide medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services, health-related services, home health services or direct supportive services if the person has been denied a fingerprint clearance card pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 12, Article 3.1, has been denied approval pursuant to this section before May 7, 2001 or has had a fingerprint clearance card suspended or revoked.
F. An employee, volunteer or contractor of a residential care institution, nursing care institution or home health agency who is eligible pursuant to Section 41-1758.07, subsection C to petition the board of fingerprinting for a good cause exception and who provides documentation of having applied for a good cause exception pursuant to Section 41-619.55 but who has not yet received a decision is exempt from the fingerprinting requirements of this section if the person provides medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services, health-related services, home health services or direct supportive services to residents or patients while under the direct visual supervision of an owner or employee who has a valid fingerprint clearance card.
G. If a person’s employment record contains a six-month or longer time frame during which the person was not employed by any employer, a completed application with a new set of fingerprints shall be submitted to the department of public safety.
H. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Direct supportive services":
(a) Means services other than home health services that provide direct individual care and that are not provided in a common area of a health care institution, including:
(i) Assistance with ambulating, bathing, toileting, grooming, eating and getting in and out of a bed or chair.
(ii) Assistance with self-administration of medication.
(iii) Janitorial, maintenance, housekeeping or other services provided in a resident’s room.
(iv) Transportation services, including van services.
(b) Does not include services provided by persons contracted directly by a resident or the resident’s family in a health care institution.
2. "Direct visual supervision" means continuous visual oversight of the supervised person that does not require the supervisor to be in a superior organizational role to the person being supervised.
3. "Home health services" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36-151.