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Home Care Aides and COVID-19

With the Governor’s rescission of proclamations related to COVID-19, both the Department of Social and Health Services and the Department of Health have administrative rules in place to allow additional time to complete training and certification. Specific information is in table below:

Home Care Aides and COVID-19 training timelines

Worker hired or rehired during the time frame of:	Must complete basic training no later than:	Must be certified as a HCA or CAN no later than:
August 17, 2019 to April 30, 2021	January 31, 2023	April 21, 2023
May 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022	April 30, 2023	July 19, 2023
April 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022	August 31, 2023	November 19, 2023
October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022	September 30, 2023	December 19, 2023
Beginning January 1, 2023	Standard training requirements	Standard certification requirements

Community partners meeting on January 5, 10:30 a.m. to noon

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Information for providers whose credentials have been affected by a drug conviction

• Beginning January 1, 2021, health care professionals (excluding physicians) who are offering telemedicine services to patients, are required to complete telemedicine training. Please see the Department of Health policy statement with additional information related to this requirement (PDF) for more information.
  To learn more about the different training options available and access additional resources, please visit the Washington State Telehealth Collaborative Training page. To complete the free and publicly available telemedicine training, please select enroll and create a Canvas account to access the Washington State Medical Professional Telemedicine Training.

Continuing education, training classes, and other resources - See our Resources webpage for links to a list of continuing education classes, nursing assistant bridge training programs, the DSHS background check process and a checklist for new long-term caregivers.

Interpreters available for the written examination - The Department of Health offers the home care aide examination in the following languages: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Somali, Tagalog, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. When requested, the department provides an interpreter to read the home care aide examination to accommodate other languages not listed above. More information is on our Individual Interpreter Project webpage.