Posted by: Robert Markette
December 13, 2005

As the end of the year approaches, many unlicensed personal care providers need to start thinking about licensure.  Yes, licensure.  The Indiana legislature made licensure of personal care agencies a reality in March.  ISDH has already put together a draft licensure regulation.  ISDH has also begun taking requests for personal care agency licenses.  For those of you in home care who provide non skilled services, if you haven’t started, it is now time to start preparing for licensure.

At this juncture, I do not know any official time frames, but ISDH has previously stated that it wants to have licensure regulations in place by February 2006.  If so, you have roughly three months to prepare. 

Luckily, the statue is not as burdensome as home health licensure, although the current draft of the proposed regulations adds to the requirements of the statute.  For now, providers should be familiarizing themselves with the statute I.C. 12-27-4-1.  Even without the regulations, there are many steps you can be taking to preprare.  For example, you can begin performing criminal background checks on your employees and you can begin performing TB tests on your employees. 

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