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2025 training requirements summaries now available

Michaun Shetler
By Michaun Shetler | January 10, 2025 | All providers



Every new year, Care Providers of Minnesota reviews and updates the training requirement summaries. Regardless of the type of facility you operate, you need to develop an initial orientation and training program, we well as a process for ongoing training.

As you review your staff training plan for 2025, you may find the below training requirement summary documents helpful.
  • Nursing facilities and skilled nursing facilities
  • Licensed assisted living facilities
  • Licensed assisted living with dementia care assisted living facilities
  • Licensed comprehensive home care providers
  • Licensed basis home care providers
  • Medicare-certified home care agencies (including the comprehensive care requirements)
  • Medicare-certified hospice agencies

Click here to select the 2025 training requirements summary applicable to the type of license or certification you operate.

It is important to remember that the regulations and requirements outlined by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and/or the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) are not the only training requirements mandated for your staff. Other agencies may also have oversight over you as an employer in Minnesota.

If you are aware of other federal or Minnesota staff training requirements that are not included in our training lists, please forward that information, along with a link to the requirement, to Michaun Shetler so that we keep our lists up to date and accurate!




Michaun Shetler  |  Vice President of Regulatory Affairs  |   mshetler@careproviders.org  |  952-851-2484


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