(a) Administrators shall complete at least forty (40) classroom hours of continuing education during each two (2)-year certification period, including:
(1) For administrators who renew their administrator certification on or after January 1, 2003, at least eight (8) hours in subjects related to serving residents with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias, including, but not limited to, instruction related to direct care, physical environment, and admissions procedures and assessment.
(A) This instruction may be taken as a single eight (8)-hour class or in smaller increments that total at least eight (8) hours within each two (2)-year renewal period.
(2) At least four (4) hours of instruction in laws, regulations, policies, and procedural standards that impact the operation of residential care facilities for the elderly, including but not limited to the regulations contained in this Chapter.
(3) If not included in the certified administrator's Initial Certification Training Program, at least one (1) hour of instruction in cultural competency and sensitivity in issues relating to the underserved aging lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
(b) Continuing education hours must be sufficiently related by subject matter and logic to the Core of Knowledge, current and relevant to facility operations and care, and completed through courses approved for residential care facility for the elderly administrators by the Department.
(c) Courses approved for continuing education credit shall require the physical presence of the certificate holder in a classroom setting as defined in Section 87101(c)(7), except that up to one-half of the required forty (40) hours of continuing education necessary to renew the certificate may be satisfied through interactive online courses as specified in Section 87788(i)(1).
(1) The Department will not count toward the continuing education requirements more than ten (10) hours of instruction, in-class and/or online, completed in a single day.
(2) Home study or correspondence-type courses will not be counted toward completion of continuing education requirements as they are not interactive by design.
(3) Completion of an Initial Certification Training Program or component(s) thereof will not be counted toward completion of continuing education requirements as the Program is intended for new administrators.
(4) Any specific continuing education course may only be accepted once per renewal period toward completion of the continuing education requirements.
(d) To apply for recertification prior to the expiration date of the certificate, the certificate holder shall submit to the Department's Administrator Certification Section, post-marked on, or up to ninety (90) days before, the certificate expiration date:
(1) A completed Application for Administrator Certification form LIC 9214.
(2) Evidence of completion of forty (40) continuing education hours as specified in Section 87407(a), or, if applicable, twenty (20) continuing education hours as specified in Section 87407(g).
(3) Payment of a non-refundable one hundred dollar ($100) processing fee.
(4) A copy of the front and back of his/her current nursing home wallet license, or equivalent, if the applicant is a current Nursing Home Administrator.
(e) To apply for recertification after the expiration date of the certificate, but within four (4) years of the certificate expiration date, the certificate holder shall submit to the Department's Administrator Certification Section:
(1) A completed Application for Administrator Certification form LIC 9214.
(2) Evidence of completion of the required continuing education hours as specified in Section 87407(a), or 87407(g), if applicable. The total number of hours required for recertification shall be determined by computing the number of continuing education hours the certificate holder would have been required to complete if they had remained certified. The date of computation shall be the date the application for renewal is received by the Department's Administrator Certification Section.
(3) Payment of a non-refundable delinquency fee equal to three times the one hundred dollar ($100) renewal fee, or three hundred dollars ($300).
(4) A copy of the front and back of his/her current nursing home wallet license, or equivalent, if the applicant is a current Nursing Home Administrator.
(f) Certificates not renewed within four (4) years of their expiration date shall not be renewed, restored, reissued or reinstated.
(1) Holders of certificates not renewed within four (4) years of their expiration date must begin anew the certification process specified in Section 87406(b).
(g) Certificate holders who possess a valid Nursing Home Administrator license shall be required to complete only twenty (20) of the required forty (40) hours of continuing education, but including the requirements of Section 87407(a)(1)-(3).
(h) Certificate holders, as a condition of recertification, shall have a current criminal record clearance or exemption.
(i) A non-refundable processing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be paid for the replacement of a lost certificate.
(j) A certificate holder shall report any change of mailing address within thirty (30) days of the change to the Department's Administrator Certification Section.
(k) Whenever a certified administrator assumes or relinquishes responsibility for administering a residential care facility for the elderly, he or she shall provide written notice, within thirty (30) days, to:
(1) The local licensing office responsible for receiving information regarding personnel changes at the licensed facility with whom the certificate holder is or was associated, and
(2) The Department's Administrator Certification Section.
Credits
Note: Authority cited: Sections 1569.30 and 1569.616, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1569.17, 1569.171, 1569.23, 1569.315, 1569.613 and 1569.616, Health and Safety Code.
History
1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering former section 87564.3 to new section 87407, including amendment of section and Note, filed 3-5-2008 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2008, No. 10).
2. Amendment of section and Note filed 12-30-2015; operative 1-1-2016 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2016, No. 1).
This database is current through 5/3/24 Register 2024, No. 18.
