Employee Disqualification List

The Employee Disqualification List (EDL) maintained by the Department of Health and Senior Services is a listing of individuals who have been determined to have:

1. abused or neglected a resident, patient, client, or consumer;
2. misappropriated funds or property belonging to a resident, patient, client, or consumer; or
3. falsified documentation verifying delivery of services to an in-home services client or consumer.

These acts must have occurred while the individual was employed or by reason of their employment by a long-term care facility, an in-home services provider agency, by a hospital, home health agency, hospice, or ambulatory surgical center, or by a consumer or vendor.

Individuals are notified that an investigation has indicated that they have committed acts of abuse, neglect, misappropriation or falsification and they are given an opportunity to appeal before being placed on the EDL.

The EDL is available through this website to long-term care facilities, in-home services provider agencies, hospitals, home-health agencies, hospices, ambulatory surgical centers, vendors, and other state departments upon request. The information on the EDL is confidential and available only to the entities specified by law for employment purposes. The information may not be further released by the entity obtaining the information.

Long-term care facilities, in-home services provider agencies, hospitals, home-health agencies, hospices and ambulatory surgical centers are prohibited from employing a person, in any capacity, whose name appears on the EDL. These providers are required to check the EDL before hiring an individual and they may not continue to employ a person whose name appears on the EDL.

Section 208.909 RSMo, prohibits the authorization or expenditure of any state or federal financial assistance to pay for personal care assistance services provided by a personal care attendant who is listed on any of the background check lists in the Family Care Safety Registry under Sections 210.900 to 210.932, RSMo, unless a Good Cause Waiver is obtained pursuant to Section 660.317, RSMo. Please note, however, that good cause waivers cannot be obtained for individuals whose names are included on the EDL.

Section 630.170, RSMo, also disqualifies any person whose name appears on the EDL from holding any position in any public or private facility or day program operated, funded or licensed by the Department of Mental Health or in any mental health facility or mental health program in which people are admitted on a voluntary or involuntary basis or are civilly detained pursuant to Chapter 632, RSMo.