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Licensing and certification asks exemption to transfer personnel funds to pay contract nurses to meet inspection workload
Summary
The Department of Health and Welfare’s licensing and certification division asked the committee for a statutory exemption to allow transfers of personnel dollars to operating to pay contract nurses and other contract surveyors, citing inspection workload and a statutory inspection frequency for nursing facilities.
The Department of Health and Welfare asked the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee Monday for an exemption that would allow Licensing and Certification to transfer personnel dollars to operating to retain contract nurses and meet federally and state-required inspection schedules.
Alex Williamson, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the committee that Licensing and Certification historically has supplemented its permanent staff with contracted nurses to perform surveys and inspections and that recent legislative language limiting transfers of personnel dollars had required the division to request one-time…
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