CA Health & Safety Code Section 1263

(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.

(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.

Source: Section 1263, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=1263.­.

Last Updated

Aug. 19, 2023

§ 1263’s source at ca​.gov