NAC427A.450. Procedure when recipient, applicant or person residing with recipient or applicant has communicable disease.

     1. If a recipient, an applicant or a person who resides with the recipient or applicant has a communicable disease, the provision of service to the recipient or the processing of the application must be temporarily suspended until the infected person has been examined by a licensed physician, a registered nurse or a physician assistant and has been determined to be free of the disease or is no longer contagious.

     2. As used in this section, “communicable disease” means a disease that is caused by a specific infectious agent or its toxic products, and that can be transmitted, either directly or indirectly, from one person to another. The term does not include acquired immune deficiency syndrome or the human immunodeficiency virus.

     (Added to NAC by Aging Services Div., eff. 7-16-92; A 1-10-97; R163-06, 9-18-2007)