Oregon Code § 443.432·Enacted ·Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Acuity-based staffing tool.
(1) The Department of Human Services shall develop or obtain, maintain and use,
in collaboration with residential care facilities, an objective,
technology-based, acuity-based staffing tool. The department may use the tool
to:
(a) Evaluate
whether a residential care facility has qualified awake caregivers sufficient
in number to meet the 24-hour scheduled and unscheduled needs of each resident;
and
(b) Assess the
number of direct care staff hours required by a particular residential care
facility to meet each residents scheduled and unscheduled needs.
(2) The
acuity-based staffing tool shall be made available to residential care
facilities to:
(a) Enable the
residential care facilities to assess their staffing needs and determine
whether they have a sufficient number of qualified awake caregivers to meet the
24-hour scheduled and unscheduled needs of each resident;
(b) Communicate
the required staffing needs and each residential care facilitys staffing plan
to residents, their family members and other persons; and
(c) Demonstrate
to the department that the residential care facilitys staffing plan meets the
24-hour scheduled and unscheduled needs of each resident.
(3) The
department is not required to use the tool described in this section in every
circumstance in which residential care facility staffing is evaluated, but the
department must use the tool in collaboration with the facility if the
department is considering imposing a staffing requirement on a facility as part
of a licensing condition and the department and the facility are not in
agreement about whether staffing meets the residents scheduled and unscheduled
needs or the staffing standards proposed by the department. [2017 c.679 §24]