{"data":{"id":"us-ca/hsc-1263","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"HSC § 1263","heading":"","body":"(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Dementia Training Standards Act of 2001.\n(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.\n(2) The facility shall develop a dementia-specific training component within the existing orientation program, to be implemented no later than July 1, 2002.\n(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.\n(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.\n(d) Freestanding and hospital-based pediatric skilled nursing facilities with exclusively pediatric occupancy shall be exempt from the requirements set forth in this section.","path":["Health and Safety Code - HSC","DIVISION 2. LICENSING PROVISIONS [1200. - 1796.88.]","CHAPTER 2. Health Facilities [1250. - 1339.59.]","ARTICLE 1. General [1250. - 1264.1.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"ef1e91793f6849757061538026c34bf44481ff70cf16db7c4ae3a45eb8d6eab8","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/hsc-1262.8","next":"us-ca/hsc-1264"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}