nursing care institutions
administrators
SB 1066 transfers the ability to establish continuing education requirements for assisted living facility managers from the Department of Health Services (DHS) to the Board of Examiners of Nursing Care Institution Administrators and Adult Care Home Managers (Board).
The Board is responsible for ensuring that administrators and managers of intermediate care institutions and assisted living facilities receive minimum education and training requirements for licensure. While the Board is responsible for ensuring that training requirements are met, DHS was given the responsibility of establishing continuing education requirements for assisted living facility and supervisory care managers through statutory changes in 1998. The Board had already developed rules for continuing education requirements for assisted living facility managers.
Both DHS and the Board now have different standards for continuing education for assisted living facility managers. SB 1066 was drafted to eliminate confusion by having only one agency responsible for establishing continuing education requirements.