Section 1569.62.

(a)  The director shall ensure that licensees, administrators, and staffs of residential care facilities for the elderly have appropriate training to provide the care and services for which a license or certificate is issued.

(b)  The department shall develop jointly with the Department of Aging, with input from provider organizations, requirements for a uniform core of knowledge within the required 20 hours of continuing education for administrators, and their designated substitutes, and for recertification of administrators of residential care facilities for the elderly. This knowledge base shall include, as a minimum, basic understanding of the psychosocial and physical care needs of elderly persons and administration. The department shall develop jointly with the Department of Aging, with input from provider organizations, a uniform resident assessment tool to be used by all residential care facilities for the elderly. The assessment tool shall, in lay terms, help to identify resident needs for service and assistance with activities of daily living.

The departments shall develop a mandatory training program on the utilization of the assessment tool to be given to administrators and their designated substitutes.

(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 848, Sec. 8.)