A person identified in an extended care, or long-term care facility to provide social services, under the direction of a social work consultant. A designee should have at least two years of college education and, preferably, a B.A. degree. State licensure is not required in any State because the function of social service designee is not itself an occupation, but a role specified in Medicare regulations and assigned to an otherwise employed member of the facility staff.<\/p>\n
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A person identified in an extended care, or long-term care facility to provide social services, under the direction of a social work consultant. A designee should have at least two years of college education and, preferably, a B.A. degree. State licensure is not required in any State because the function of social service designee is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"yoast_head":"\n