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California Health And Safety Code Section 1263

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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.
   (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.

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