Long-term Care Credentialing

The Credentialing Unit licenses, certifies and issues permits to individuals that work and provide services to nursing facility residents. Credentialing of these individuals is a vital process to ensure that they are qualified to perform the services that they provide.

The HHS Regulatory Services Division, Licensing and Credentialing Section and Enforcement Section manages:

• Nursing facility administrator (NFA) licensing, investigation, and sanctions
• Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)
• Nurse aide certification, investigation and sanctions
• Nurse Aide Registry (NAR)
• Medication aide (MA) permitting, investigation and sanctions
• Employment Misconduct Registry (EMR) of unlicensed staff of HHS-regulated facilities and agencies found to have committed acts of abuse, neglect, exploitation, misappropriation or misconduct

The Licensing and Credentialing Section’s Nursing Facility Administrators Licensing Branch:

• Licenses NFAs, certifies nurse aides, and permits medication aides;
• Manages the nurse aide training and competency evaluation programs
• Maintains the NAR and medication aide database

The Professional Credentialing Enforcement Unit of the Enforcement Section:

• Conducts investigations of NFA complaints and referrals and sanctions violation of NFA requirements
• Makes findings of abuse, neglect, or misappropriation against nurse aides and enters on the NAR, entering findings of misconduct to the MA database
• Manages the EMR program

For questions, contact the Credentialing Unit.