[Histonet] background checks required by AHCA

[Nicole Tatum]

I am currently filing out my ahca renewal application. There are many
changes and the form and I do not find it user friendly. Anyways here my
question: Medical directors and chief finicial officers or any person who
stands to gain profit must undergo a level 2 background screeening. On the
new app is states all empolyees and health care providers. I called acha
licensing division and they said only directors and so forth. But, on ahca
website statue 408(something, ill have to get exact number) when into
effect in 2010 that says all employees and newly hired employees must
underground background screening. So does all the arnp, pa, ht, and ma's
need to be screened because we have a lab?

Nicole Tatum, HT ASCP

http://ahca.myflorida.com/mchq/long_term_care/Background_Screening/BGS_WhoRequiredToBeScreened.pdf


taken directly from ahca site:

Employees and Contractors employed before August 1, 2010

Every employee/contractor must attest to meeting the requirements of this
chapter and agreeing to inform the employer immediately if arrested for
any of the disqualifying offenses while employed by the employer. [Section
435.05(2)]. This attestation must be maintained in the employee’s
personnel file. You may use the Affidavit of Compliance with Background
Screening to satisfy the attestation requirement.

If an employer becomes aware that an employee/contractor has been arrested
for a disqualifying offense, the employer must remove the
employee/contractor from contact with any vulnerable person that places
the employee/contractor in a role that requires background screening until
the arrest is resolved in a way that the employer determines that the
employee/contractor is still eligible for employment/contracting under
this chapter. [Section 435.06(2)(b)]


Rescreening