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2000 Session

Budget Amendments - SB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Saslaw
Dementia Training-Staff & Inspectors

Item 388 #2s

Item 388 #2s

First Year - FY2001 Second Year - FY2002
Health And Human Resources
Social Services, Department of FY2001 $90,000 FY2002 $90,000 GF

Language
Page 282, line 43, strike "$10,672,291" and insert "$10,762,291".
Page 282, line 43, strike "$10,499,341" and insert "$10,589,341".
Page 283, after line 24 insert:
"D.  Out of this appropriation, $90,000 the first year and $90,000 the second year from the general fund is authorized for interactive dementia-specific training of long-term care facility staff and state inspectors.  Funds would be provided for a contract with the Alzheimer's Association Northern Virginia Chapter to provide twelve-hour training including responsibility to coordinate and promote the program, train the instructors, provide sliding-scale scholarships to trainees, and contract for professional independent evaluation of the program's substantive effect on the quality of long-term care."


Explanation
(This amendment adds funds for the Alzheimer's Association to train nursing home staff and inspectors in the care of persons with dementia-specific disabilities.)