California Health and Safety Code 1263 – (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the …
(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Dementia Training Standards Act of 2001.
(b) (1) Any certified nurse assistant employed by a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall have completed at least two hours of initial dementia-specific training as part of the facility’s orientation program. The training shall be completed within the first 40 hours of employment.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1263
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- Intermediate care facility: means a health facility that provides inpatient care to ambulatory or nonambulatory patients who have recurring need for skilled nursing supervision and need supportive care, but who do not require availability of continuous skilled nursing care. See California Health and Safety Code 1250
- Nursing facility: means a health facility licensed pursuant to this chapter that is certified to participate as a provider of care either as a skilled nursing facility in the federal Medicare Program under Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act (42 U. See California Health and Safety Code 1250
- Skilled nursing facility: includes a "small house skilled nursing facility (SHSNF)" as defined in Section 1323. See California Health and Safety Code 1250
(2) The facility shall develop a dementia-specific training component within the existing orientation program, to be implemented no later than July 1, 2002.
(3) The facility’s modified orientation program shall be reviewed by the department in a phasein schedule that begins no later than July 1, 2002, and is completed no later than July 1, 2005.
(c) Any certified nursing assistant employed by a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall participate in a minimum of five hours of dementia-specific in-service training per year, as part of the facility’s in-service training.
(d) Freestanding and hospital-based pediatric skilled nursing facilities with exclusively pediatric occupancy shall be exempt from the requirements set forth in this section.
(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 339, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.)