The board has the duty and responsibility to:
1.Develop, impose, and enforce standards which must be met by individuals in order to
receive a license as a nursing home administrator, which standards must be designed
to ensure that nursing home administrators will be individuals who are of good
character and are otherwise suitable, and who, by training or experience in the field of
institutional administration, are qualified to serve as nursing home administrators.
2.Develop and apply appropriate techniques, including examination and investigations,
for determining whether an individual meets such standards.
3.Issue licenses to individuals determined, after application of such techniques, to meet
such standards, and for cause, after due notice and hearing, to revoke or suspend
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The board has the duty and responsibility to:
1. Develop, impose, and enforce standards which must be met by individuals in order to
receive a license as a nursing home administrator, which standards must be designed
to ensure that nursing home administrators will be individuals who are of good
character and are otherwise suitable, and who, by training or experience in the field of
institutional administration, are qualified to serve as nursing home administrators.
2. Develop and apply appropriate techniques, including examination and investigations,
for determining whether an individual meets such standards.
3. Issue licenses to individuals determined, after application of such techniques, to meet
such standards, and for cause, after due notice and hearing, to revoke or suspend
licenses previously issued by the board if the individual holding such license is
determined substantially to have failed to conform to the requirements of such
standards.
4. Establish and carry out procedures designed to ensure that individuals licensed as
nursing home administrators will, during any period that they serve as such, comply
with the requirements of such standards.
5. Receive, investigate, and take appropriate action with respect to, and including the
revocation of a license if necessary after due notice and hearing and for cause, any
charge or complaint filed with the board to the effect that any individual licensed as a
nursing home administrator has failed to comply with the requirements of such
standards.
6. Conduct a continuing study and investigation of nursing homes, and administrators of
nursing homes within the state with a view to the improvement of the standards
imposed for the licensing of such administrators and of procedures and methods for
the enforcement of such standards with respect to administrators of nursing homes
who have been licensed as such.
7. Conduct, or cause to be conducted, one or more courses of instruction and training
sufficient to meet the requirements of this chapter, and make provisions for such
courses and their accessibility to residents of this state unless it finds that there are
and approves a sufficient number of courses which courses are conducted by others
within this state. In lieu thereof the board may approve courses conducted within and
without this state as sufficient to meet the education and training requirements of this
chapter.