Find & Ask › Oklahoma › this rule

63 O.S. § 1-1947 - Employee Background Checks (Oklahoma Long-Term Care Security Act)

OklahomastatuteOklahoma State Department of Health / Oklahoma Department of Human Services

What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The provider/employer must not hire any individual convicted of a crime listed in Section 1-1950.1, federally excluded under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7, having a substantiated finding of abuse or neglect, or registered as a sex offender. (63 O.S. § 1-1947 / § 1-1950.1)(63 O.S. § 1-1947 / § 1-1950.1)
  • 2The provider/employer must check applicable sex offender and violent crime registries and abuse/neglect registries for each individual with direct patient access. (63 O.S. § 1-1947)(63 O.S. § 1-1947)
  • 3The provider/employer must screen each applicant/employee against the nurse aide registry and the community services worker registry (56 O.S. § 1025.3) before employment. (63 O.S. § 1-1947)(63 O.S. § 1-1947)
  • 4The provider/employer must conduct a fingerprint-based national criminal history records search through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the FBI for each employee or applicant with direct patient access to service recipients. (63 O.S. § 1-1947(A))(63 O.S. § 1-1947 - Employee Background Checks (Oklahoma Long-Term Care Security Act))

Applies to: home care, personal care, home health (individuals with direct patient access serving disabled or elderly persons in a facility or client's home)

Oklahoma's Long-Term Care Security Act requires criminal history background checks and multiple registry screenings for all employees and applicants with direct patient access to service recipients, including those providing home-based personal care and home health services to disabled or elderly persons. Employers must run fingerprint-based national (OSBI/FBI) criminal history searches, screen against the nurse aide registry, community services worker registry, sex offender/violent crime registries, and abuse/neglect registries, and are prohibited from hiring individuals with disqualifying convictions, federal exclusions, substantiated abuse/neglect findings, or sex-offender registration.

Regulatory information, not legal advice — always confirm against the cited official source. Verification reduces error; it does not certify compliance.