Assisted Living Facilities
Every assisted living facility shall have a Director. Facilities licensed for 25 beds or more shall have a full-time Nursing Home Administrator. Facilities licensed for 5 through 24 beds shall have a part-time Nursing Home Administrator on-site and on-duty at least 20 hours a week. If the assisted living facility is part of a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) or part of a campus under the same ownership, the CCRC or campus may operate under one licensed Nursing Home Administrator. Continuing education programs consisting of Board approved seminars, resident or extension courses, conferences and workshops totaling 48 classroom hours or more, on any of the subject areas enumerated in 13.2 below, are required for biennial licensure of a license as a Nursing Home Administrator. A maximum of 24 additional credit hours may be carried forward into the next licensure period, however, they must be earned within the last nine months of the preceding licensure period. Those self-instruction or home study courses, video computer-assisted programs, and teleconferences, pre-approved by the Board, may be accumulated at no more than twelve hours per renewal period.
Each facility for 4 beds or fewer shall have a full-time, on-site house manager who shall at a minimum: receive, at a minimum, 12 hours of regular in-service education annually.
Assisted living facility resident assistants shall, at a minimum: receive, at a minimum, 12 hours of regular in-service education annually.
Nursing Home Facilities
13.1 Continuing education programs consisting of Board approved seminars, resident or extension courses, conferences and workshops totaling 48 classroom hours or more, on any of the subject areas enumerated in 13.2 below, are required for biennial licensure of a license as a Nursing Home Administrator. A maximum of 24 additional credit hours may be carried forward into the next licensure period, however, they must be earned within the last nine months of the preceding licensure period. Those self-instruction or home study courses, video computer-assisted programs, and teleconferences, pre-approved by the Board, may be accumulated at no more than twelve hours per renewal period. The following are requirements for license renewal:
13.2 Content of programs of continuing education shall include one or more of the following general subject areas or their equivalents
13.2.1 Applicable standards of environmental health and safety,
13.2.2 Local health and safety regulations,
13.2.3 General Administration,
13.2.4 Psychology of patient care,
13.2.5 Principles of medical care,
13.2.6 Personal and social care,
13.2.7 Therapeutic and supportive care and services in long-term care,
13.2.8 Department organization and management,
13.2.9 Community interrelationships, and,
13.2.10 Business or financial management.
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