Who needs a TB test?
Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) wants all employees to have TB test done who work in the following settings:
- Health Care Settings of Adult family homes (within 3 days of employment)
- Boarding homes
- Nursing homes (within 3 days of employment)
- Chemical dependency
- Staffed residential homes
- Group residential facilities
- Childbirth center
- Hospitals (healthcare workers)
- Enhanced services facilities
- Ambulatory surgical facility (healthcare workers)
- Assisted living (within 3 days of employment)
- Adult day centers (within 30 days of employment)
- Doctor’s offices