# 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 residential care facilities for the elderly — personnel sufficient in numbers and competent, with no minimum number stated; type of staffing rule is acuity-based sufficiency standard; minimum staffing requirement is Facility personnel shall at all times be sufficient in numbers, and competent to provide the services necessary to meet resident needs; regulatory citation is Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 87411, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** California _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Which rule this is:** residential care facilities for the elderly — personnel sufficient in numbers and competent, with no minimum number stated _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Type of staffing rule:** acuity-based sufficiency standard _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Minimum staffing requirement:** Facility personnel shall at all times be sufficient in numbers, and competent to provide the services necessary to meet resident needs. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Regulatory citation:** Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 87411 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> (a) Facility personnel shall at all times be sufficient in numbers, and competent to provide the services necessary to meet resident needs.

## Source

- https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/22-CCR-87411

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