Residential care settings: first-aid and CPR standards

First Aid & CPR Oregon

In Oregon, residential care and assisted-living facilities and home-care settings serving vulnerable adults and seniors rely on care staff who can act in a medical emergency. To keep residents safe, these settings require their aides to hold and maintain CPR and first-aid certification.

Settings concerned

Residential care and assisted-living facilities and home-care settings; Oregon Home Care Commission (OHCC) home-care-worker certification requires CPR and first aid with a skills demonstration.

The first-aid requirement

Home-care workers (HCW/PSW/PCA) must hold and maintain a CPR and first-aid certification with a skills demonstration, and Level-1 CNA programs require current adult CPR certification; this covers the aides who care for vulnerable adults and seniors across residential and home-care settings.

A recognized, up-to-date first-aid and CPR certificate is the way to meet this requirement; it is in addition to the worker's occupational training and must be renewed periodically.

How to meet it

A recognized, up-to-date first-aid and CPR certificate meets this requirement. It is in addition to the required training or assessment, and is renewed periodically.

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For organizations: keep your team compliant

When the certificate is an employer requirement, the real challenge is tracking. Our organization system manages a team’s training: a certification dashboard, deadline tracking, automatic renewal reminders and proof archiving. An organization keeps its whole staff current without watching every date by hand.

Training aligned with the latest emergency-care standards

Our CPR, AED and first-aid training is developed in line with the most recent international guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care and first aid.

We rigorously follow the recommendations of ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation), the international body responsible for the scientific evaluation and development of global resuscitation standards. These recommendations serve as a reference for health organizations, institutions and professional orders worldwide — and are updated as scientific and clinical evidence evolves.

Keep your skills current with confidence

Every intervention can make a difference. Keeping CPR and emergency-care skills current is both a professional requirement and a responsibility toward patients, colleagues and the public.

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