In-Home Supportive Services program: telehealth training program.

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law authorizes services to be provided under the IHSS program either through the employment of individual providers, a contract between the county and an entity for the provision of services, the creation by the county of a public authority, or a contract between the county and a nonprofit consortium. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with counties, to develop a standardized curriculum, training materials, and work aids, and operate an ongoing statewide training program, on specified matters related to the provision of in-home supportive services. This bill would require the department to develop a training program, as specified, to train IHSS providers on the utilization of telehealth in home-based care.