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Manual: Admitting Department Policy and Procedure Manual (Ver 3) Department: ADMITTING
This customizable document, Annual Health Screening, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Admitting Department Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools. Health care organizations around the world utilize MCN’s compliant ready templates and workflow process tools to help them meet the latest changes in regulations and standards. Here is some sample content from Annual Health Screening:
| | RESPONSIBILITY:
Administration, Department Directors/Managers, Supervisors, Human Resources Director
POLICY:
Annual Health Screening:
In accordance with state and federal regulations, an employee who has direct or indirect patient contact shall be required to have a skin test for tuberculosis on an annual basis. A positive reaction to the PPD shall be followed by a chest x-ray, except where medically contraindicated.
The hospital is required by the above designated section of state and federal regulations to ensure that all personnel are free from symptoms indicating the presence of... |
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| | ...be sent to the department director approximately one 1 month prior to the required screening.
The department director will give the form to the employee and inform the employee that annual health screening is to be taken. The department director or designee should arrange a time for the employee to take the test.
If the test has not been completed within two 2 weeks after the employee receives the form, the department director will be notified to discuss the completion of the test with... |
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