# California — Assisted living facility minimum staffing requirements by US state — how many staff must be on duty, and what that guarantees

For California, which rule this is is facilities caring for 16 to 100 residents — night supervision; type of staffing rule is census-banded minimum staff on duty; minimum staffing requirement is In facilities caring for sixteen (16) to one hundred (100) residents at least one employee shall be on duty on the premises, and awake. Another employee shall be on call, and capable of responding within ten minutes; awake/awake-on-duty requirement is at least one employee shall be on duty on the premises, and awake; regulatory citation is Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 87415, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** California _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Which rule this is:** facilities caring for 16 to 100 residents — night supervision _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Type of staffing rule:** census-banded minimum staff on duty _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Minimum staffing requirement:** In facilities caring for sixteen (16) to one hundred (100) residents at least one employee shall be on duty on the premises, and awake. Another employee shall be on call, and capable of responding within ten minutes. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Awake/awake-on-duty requirement:** at least one employee shall be on duty on the premises, and awake _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Regulatory citation:** Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 87415 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> (2) In facilities caring for sixteen (16) to one hundred (100) residents at least one employee shall be on duty on the premises, and awake. Another employee shall be on call, and capable of responding within ten minutes.

## Source

- https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/22-CCR-87415

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-08-19.
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