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California Health and Safety Code

§ 1263

HSC § 1263 Effective Jan 1, 2002Div. 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

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(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.
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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 339, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.

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