Overview
All Oregon Community-Based Care facilities must adopt an Acuity-Based Staffing Tool to determine the appropriate number of direct-care staff necessary to provide care services to residents based on individual resident acuity. Assisted living and residential care facilities may choose to use the Acuity-based Staffing Tool provided by the Oregon Department of Human Services or another acuity-based staffing tool.
Deadlines
- All Oregon CBC facilities must select an acuity-based staffing tool by February 1, 2022.
- By July 1, 2022, facilities must fully implement the selected ABST and complete an ABST evaluation for all residents.
Background
The requirement that assisted living and residential care facilities use an Acuity-Based Staffing Tool was introduced in
House Bill 3359 (2017).
Contact information
For questions call 503-373-2227 or send an email to
QualityMetrics.Acuity@odhsoha.oregon.gov