Powers and duties of Board; Board’s records deemed public records; exceptions.
1. The Board shall:
(a) Develop, impose and enforce standards which must be met by persons to receive licenses as nursing facility administrators or administrators of residential facilities for groups. The standards must be designed to ensure that nursing facility administrators or persons acting as administrators of residential facilities for groups will be persons who are of good character and otherwise suitable, and who, by training or experience in their respective fields of administering health care facilities, are qualified to serve as nursing facility administrators or administrators of residential facilities for groups.
(b) Develop and apply appropriate techniques, including examinations and investigations, for determining whether a person meets those standards.
(c) Issue licenses to persons determined, after the application of appropriate techniques, to meet those standards.
(d) Revoke or suspend licenses previously issued by the Board in any case if the person holding the license is determined substantially to have failed to conform to the requirements of the standards.
(e) Establish and carry out procedures designed to ensure that persons licensed as nursing facility administrators or administrators of residential facilities for groups will, during any period they serve as such, comply with the requirements of the standards.
(f) Receive, investigate and take appropriate action with respect to any charge or complaint filed with the Board to the effect that any person licensed as a nursing facility administrator or an administrator of a residential facility for groups has failed to comply with the requirements of the standards. The Board shall initiate an investigation of any charge or complaint filed with the Board within 30 days after receiving the charge or complaint.
(g) Conduct a continuing study of:
(1) Facilities for skilled nursing, facilities for intermediate care and their administrators; and
(2) Residential facilities for groups and their administrators,
Ê with a view to the improvement of the standards imposed for the licensing of administrators and of procedures and methods for the enforcement of the standards.
(h) Conduct or approve, or both, a program of training and instruction designed to enable all persons to obtain the qualifications necessary to meet the standards set by the Board for qualification as a nursing facility administrator or an administrator of a residential facility for groups.
2. All the records kept by the Board, not otherwise privileged or confidential, are public records.
Last modified: February 27, 2006