105. Mass. Code Regs. 155.016. - Establishment and Content of the Registry for Nurse Aides, Home Health Aides and Homemakers

“Establishment and Content of the Registry for Nurse Aides, Home Health Aides and Homemakers”
 
The Department must establish and maintain a registry of all individuals who have been certified as nurse aides for employment in a facility. The registry must contain findings or adjudicated findings of patient or resident abuse, neglect, mistreatment or misappropriation of patient’s property by nurse aides, home health aides and homemakers. It also includes a brief statement by the accused nurse aide, home health aide or homemaker disputing the findings, if such individual chooses to provide such statement.  Evidence of any sanction imposed to the accused by the Department. The Department must disclose information regarding findings and adjudicated findings of patient or resident abuse, neglect, mistreatment or misappropriation of patient or resident property, other sanctions imposed against any nurse aide, home health aide or homemaker, as well as any information regarding guilty findings, guilty pleas, nolo contendere pleas or admitted to sufficient facts to support a guilty finding made by such individual in a court of law. The Department must also disclose any statement made by such individual disputing the findings.