§ 3613. Home care services workers. 1. As used in this section, the\nfollowing terms shall have the following meanings:\n * (a) "Home care services entity" means a home care services agency or\nother entity providing home care services subject to this article or\nexempt under section thirty-six hundred nineteen of this article, or an\nenhanced assisted living residence licensed under article seven of the\nsocial services law and certified under article forty-six-B of this\nchapter providing enhanced assisted living services. A hospice program\nunder article forty of this chapter providing hospice care in a\npatient's home shall be considered a home care services entity only for\nthe purpose of compliance with the home care services worker registry.\n * NB Effective until March 31, 2029\n * (a) "Home care services entity" means a home care services agency or\nother entity providing home care services subject to this article or\nexempt under section thirty-six hundred nineteen of this article.\n * NB Effective March 31, 2029\n (b) "Home care services worker" or "worker" means any person engaged\nin or applying to become engaged in providing home health aide services,\nas defined in subdivision four of section three thousand six hundred two\nof this article or "personal care services", as defined in subdivision\nfive of section three thousand six hundred two of this article.\n (c) "Home care services worker registry" or "registry" means the home\ncare services worker registry established by this section.\n (d) "State-approved education or training program" or "program" means\na program that provides education or training for persons to meet any\nrequirement established by the department for providing home health aide\nservices or personal care services, which program is approved by the\ndepartment or the state education department.\n 1-a. Each home care services worker shall obtain an individual unique\nidentifier from the state by or before a date determined by the\ncommissioner in consultation with the Medicaid inspector general. Any\npersonal information submitted to obtain such unique identifier shall be\nmaintained as confidential pursuant to article six-A of the public\nofficers law ("New York state privacy protection law").\n 2. The department shall develop and maintain a home care services\nworker registry of persons who have successfully completed a\nstate-approved education or training program. Information in the\nregistry shall be readily accessible on the department's website by the\npublic, home care services workers, and home care services entities,\nsubject to subdivision seven of this section. A home care services\nentity shall obtain information relating to a home care services worker,\npursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision seven of this section, prior to\nthe worker beginning to provide home care services for that entity,\nexcept that a home care services worker employed by any entity prior to\nthe effective date of this section may provide home care services as\nprovided in subdivision eight of this section. No employer of a home\ncare services worker other than a home care services entity shall be\nrequired to obtain information from the registry.\n 3. The registry shall include, but not be limited to, the following\ninformation concerning each person who has successfully completed a\nstate-approved education or training program that is listed in the\nregistry:\n (a) Full name, including pre-marital name and any other names\ncurrently or previously used;\n (b) Current home address;\n (c) Gender;\n (d) Date of birth;\n (e) Name of each state-approved education or training program\nsuccessfully completed, the name of the entity providing the program,\nand the date on which the program was completed;\n (f) History of work in home care services through any home care\nservices entity, including dates of employment and name of entity\nproviding the employment;\n (g) Final findings made in accorda‹ Prev All New York sections Next ›
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