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MDT Home Health Care Agency, Inc. PERSONNEL POLICY STATEMENTS The following policy statements shall govern all staff, personnel and employees of this agency. 1 . Each employee shall be given a Job Description and Personnel policies/conditions of employment at time of hire, and thereafter as update/revisions are needed. 2. Such job description shall detail: a) The job title, lines of authority and reporting responsibilities, b) Primary responsibilities and duties to be performed; educational and experimental qualifications c) Wage rate and salary range for position; (turnover rates are monitored tracked and trended as applicable). d) A copy of written personnel policies and procedures. 3. Personnel selection and appointment shall be made after the position has been advertised through the press or by word of mouth, and applicants have completed the application for employment, been interviewed by the staff of this agency and selected on merit over other applicants. Personnel are employed and assigned responsibilities commensurate with their education and experience. 4. In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "no person shall be denied employment solely on the basis of race, color, age, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, sex, or cultural background", except that as a CBO, this agency is committed to hiring at least fifty percent of its staff from members of the economically disadvantaged minority population: e.g. African Americans and Hispanics within the our county area. 5 . Each new field employee (full- or part-time) shall, for inclusion in his/her file, prior to contact with patients, must submit the results of a Mantoux method tuberculin skin test (TST), performed within the last twelve months. Also be required to have a pre-employment statement from a physician. Such statement will indicate, within the last twelve months, that the employee is in reasonable good health and does not appear to be at risk of transmitting communicable diseases, which would jeopardize the health of any person under the care of this agency. Employees not known to be tuberculin reactors shall provide documentation that they have had a tuberculin skin test within the past twelve months. If the agency field staff being screened for exposure to TB on hire does not have documentation of a PPD within the past twelve months, testing will be used: If the reaction to the first test is positive, an X-Ray will be taken in 1 to 3 weeks, if results is negative no other test is necessary. Positive reactors to a tuberculin skill test shall provide documentation of adequate preventive therapy or the results of a chest X-ray taken with the past twelve (12) months. 6. All newly hired employees shall serve an initial three-month (90 day) probationary period before admittance to full employment status on successful completion of the probationary period as judged by a positive evaluative report by the Administrator or his/her designee. Home Health Agency. - - Personnel/Operations Policies B-8