Connecticut General Statutes 20-102cc – Nurse’s aides: Commissioner to enter finding of improper conduct on the registry; petition for removal of finding
(a) The Department of Public Health shall receive, investigate and prosecute complaints against individuals who are providing or have provided services as a nurse’s aide in a chronic and convalescent nursing home or rest home with nursing supervision. The grounds for complaint shall include resident abuse, resident neglect, misappropriation of resident property, and fraud or deceit in obtaining or attempting to obtain a registration as a nurse’s aide. A nurse’s aide shall be given written notice by certified mail by the commissioner of any complaint against him or her. A nurse’s aide who wishes to appeal a complaint against him or her shall, not later than thirty days after the date of the mailing, file with the department a request in writing for a hearing to contest the complaint. The commissioner shall render a finding on such complaint, and, if a hearing is requested, it shall be conducted pursuant to chapter 54. The commissioner shall have the authority to render a finding and enter such finding on the registry against an individual who is providing or has provided services as a nurse’s aide in a chronic and convalescent nursing home or rest home with nursing supervision, without regard to whether such individual is on the registry or has obtained registration as a nurse’s aide from the department.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 20-102cc
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
(b) In the case of a finding of resident neglect made after January 1, 1995, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, a nurse’s aide may petition the commissioner to have the finding removed from the registry upon a determination by the commissioner that: (1) The employment and personal history of the nurse’s aide does not reflect a pattern of abusive behavior or neglect; and (2) the neglect involved in the original finding was a singular occurrence. In no case shall a determination on a petition submitted under this subsection be made prior to the expiration of a one-year period beginning on the date on which the finding was added to the registry pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.