If a provider is licensed by both OMH and the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), does an applicant who meets the criteria for a criminal history record check have to go through the background check process with both agencies?
In these cases, the agencies have agreed to a “waiver” process. Pursuant to this process, the applicant only needs to be fingerprinted once, either by OMH or OMRDD; the other agency agrees to “waive” the fingerprinting requirement. However, in all cases, the Authorized Person needs to follow the initial steps of the OMH criminal history record check process and enter the applicants identifying information in CHITS, the OMH database for capturing applicant information. If the applicant will be fingerprinted by OMH, the process will remain the same from that point forward. However, if the applicant is going to be fingerprinted by OMRDD, before the applicant is actually fingerprinted, the Authorized Person should advise BCHI that the applicant is proceeding through the waiver process. That information will be noted by BCHI. After the criminal history record results are obtained by OMRDD, the information will be shared with OMH. The agencies will separately proceed with their reviews of th
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