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.

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