For California SNF & ALF communities

Staff Development, Made Simple and Survey-Ready.

Draco Staff Development brings your team’s compliance, training, and scheduling into one secure, elegant platform — designed to be genuinely easy for every member of your staff to use.

Strict data isolation Built for non-technical staff California-focused
See it work

A CNA Renewal, Filed With the State, in Five Clicks

Compliance work is mostly paperwork about work you have already done. Draco does that part. Watch a certified nurse assistant's two-year renewal go from coming-due to filed with CDPH — the packet builds itself from records you already keep, and the platform files it for you.

  • 01Start the renewal Press Start Renewal on their row, then Create Renewal. 2 clicks
  • 02Draco reads the record The cycle, the 48 hours inside it, and every CDPH requirement. Automatic
  • 03The 283A builds and signs itself The State's CEU log, the attendance detail, the certificates. Automatic
  • 04File with CDPH Submitted through the OASYS portal, then tracked to the answer. 3 clicks

Simulated data — every name, date and number in the film is invented for the demonstration. No certified nurse assistant's records appear in it.

The platform

Everything Your Community Needs, Organized Logically

Each function has a clear home, so anyone on your team can find what they need at a glance.

Compliance Matrix

One living grid of every employee against every mandated requirement — colour-coded, filterable, and always survey-ready.

  • Each cell carries the regulation behind it, not just a date
  • Scored separately for skilled nursing and assisted living
  • Expiring items surface before they lapse, not after

Staff Directory

The whole team in one searchable record: titles, departments, credentials, documents, and health screening.

  • Licences verified against the issuing State board
  • Every certificate and form stored on the employee
  • Role-tiered access to sensitive identity fields

Training Calendar

Plan, assign, and evidence in-services and continuing education across the year.

  • Attendance posts straight into the Compliance Matrix
  • Monthly calendar emailed to staff automatically
  • CE hours tracked per licence cycle, not per year

Scheduling

Build and publish staff schedules that fit the realities of a 24/7 care community.

  • Daily assignment sheets that stand up as survey evidence
  • Nursing-hours-per-patient-day figures from the same data
  • Printable in the formats your facility already posts

Resources & AFL Library

The forms, letters, and regulatory library your team reaches for, kept current and searchable.

  • All-Facility Letters indexed and full-text searchable
  • State forms fillable on screen and printable to the original
  • Facility records and policies filed against survey readiness

Reports

Day-to-day records turned into the documents leadership and surveyors actually ask for.

  • Branded with your facility’s own letterhead
  • Exportable to PDF, formatted as documents not screenshots
  • Built from live records — never a stale spreadsheet
Coverage

26 Requirements, Each With the Regulation Behind It

Draco does not ask you to invent a compliance checklist. It ships with the one California skilled nursing and residential care facilities are actually held to — every item carrying its own citation, and scored separately for each licence because the two are not the same rulebook.

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Training & In-service

  • Abuse/neglect/exploitation prevention
  • Resident's rights & facility responsibilities
  • Dementia management training
  • +8 more
3

Health Screening

  • Annual physical examination
  • TB test / assessment
  • Respirator fit test
3

Background & Clearances

  • Criminal record clearance
  • Exclusion screening (OIG LEIE)
  • Nurse-aide registry / abuse-finding check
3

Evaluations

  • 90-day (probationary) evaluation
  • Annual performance evaluation
  • Skills / competency evaluation
2

Immunizations

  • Seasonal influenza vaccination (or declination)
  • Hepatitis B vaccination / declination on file
2

Life Support (CPR/BLS)

  • BLS / CPR certification
  • HeartSaver + First Aid (RCC PCG)
1

Licensure & Certification

  • Professional license / certification current
1

Onboarding

  • New-employee orientation

Citations are drawn from the bodies that actually inspect you:

CDPHCalifornia Department of Public Health — Title 22, Division 5
CMSCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services — 42 CFR Part 483
Cal/OSHATitle 8 — bloodborne pathogens, ATD, workplace violence, HazCom
CDSSCommunity Care Licensing — Title 22, Division 6 (RCFE)
Purpose-built

Designed Around How Care Communities Actually Work

Skilled nursing and assisted living teams are busy, hands-on, and not always comfortable with new software. Draco is built to feel obvious — so the platform is a genuine help, never another chore.

  • A tailored experience for desktop, tablet, and phone — not a shrunken desktop screen.
  • Plain-language labels and a logical, sectioned menu anyone can navigate.
  • A searchable Help Center with step-by-step instructions when you need them.
  • Ready for California SNF and ALF requirements from day one.
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California Requirements, Out of the Box

Every mandated item a California skilled nursing or residential care community is held to, each carrying its own citation and scored against the right licence — plus the letters, forms, and reports those facilities rely on.

Configured for you

Fitted to Your Facility — Not a Template You Have to Live With

No two communities run the same way, and Draco is not delivered as a fixed product you must adapt to. Every deployment is professionally configured to the individual needs of the facility it serves, and our support staff continue to shape it for as long as you use it.

Configured, Not Just Installed

Before your team ever signs in, Draco is set up around your requirement set, your job titles and departments, your licence types, and your letterhead — so the first screen your staff open already reflects the way your community actually operates.

Every Report and Form Is Yours to Shape

Reports, forms, letters, evaluation templates, matrix requirements, reminder schedules — all of it is customizable by our dedicated support staff. If your facility needs a document worded a particular way, a field added, or a wholly new report built, you ask and we build it. There is no change request queue and no per-change fee.

It Works With the Training You Already Buy

Draco integrates directly with online learning platforms, so course completions become compliance evidence without anyone re-keying them. Records arrive on their own, post themselves against the right requirement, and carry their certificates into the packets you file.

Integrations

Your Learning Platform, Connected

Completions flow in on their own. Nothing is typed twice, and the certificate that reaches the State is the authentic one your provider issued — not a look-alike regenerated after the fact.

Relias Online Learning Completions import nightly and post themselves into the Compliance Matrix against the requirement they satisfy. Authentic Relias certificate exports are carried straight into CDPH renewal packets.
Draco Learning LMS Our own learning platform, built for the same California SNF and RCFE curriculum — so coursework and compliance evidence live in one continuous record.
And more, on request Using a different provider? Our support staff will build the import for it. Bringing your training data in is part of setup, not an add-on.
Security & privacy

Your People’s Information, Protected

Employee records include sensitive, confidential information. Draco treats security as a first-class requirement at every layer of the platform.

  • Strict multi-tenant isolation — one company can never see another’s data.
  • Encrypted connections and hardened, monitored sessions.
  • Every public form protected by invisible reCAPTCHA.
  • Comprehensive error and activity logging behind the scenes.

Isolated by Design

Each tenant company’s operational data lives in its own database, so separation isn’t a setting to configure — it’s built into the architecture.

Free to download

Two Reference Manuals, Free to Anyone

California's rules for staff development and infection prevention, gathered and explained in plain English with the citation attached to every requirement. No sign-up, no email required — they are yours whether or not you ever use Draco.

The DSD Regulatory Reference Manual

Every regulation that touches staff development in California skilled nursing facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly — gathered, verified, and explained in plain English, with the exact citation attached to every requirement. Written for Directors of Staff Development, administrators, and compliance leads.

  • DSD qualifications, minimum hours and curriculum
  • CNA and nurse training and in-service requirements
  • Skilled nursing and residential care operating standards
  • Survey and F-tag reference (CMS Appendix PP)
  • Working tools: calendar, checklists and crosswalk
282 pagesPDF · 3.1 MBSecond Edition, 2026 Citations verified to official sources

Download the Manual

An educational reference, not legal advice — always check the current text of a regulation before you rely on a citation.

Front cover of The DSD Regulatory Reference Manual, Second Edition 2026, by Damien Draconum — California skilled nursing facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly.

Infection Prevention & Control in Long-Term Care

The science of infection prevention and the California rules that govern it, side by side — microbiology and surveillance alongside the federal, state and Cal/OSHA requirements, with every clinical recommendation and regulatory requirement tied to its official source. Written for Infection Preventionists, directors of nursing, and the staff developers and administrators behind them.

  • The Infection Preventionist role, qualifications and the full-time requirement
  • The written prevention programme and annual risk assessment
  • Surveillance, national reporting and antibiotic stewardship
  • Hand hygiene, precautions, protective equipment and the pathogens
  • Outbreaks, reporting and the F880 survey (CMS Appendix PP)
276 pagesPDF · 3.2 MBFirst Edition, 2026 Citations verified to official sources

Download the Manual

An educational and clinical reference, not legal or medical advice — always check current regulation and clinical guidance before you rely on a citation.

Front cover of Infection Prevention & Control in Long-Term Care, First Edition June 2026, by Damien Draconum — the Infection Preventionist's reference manual for California skilled nursing and residential care.
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Draco Staff Development

We help California’s skilled nursing and assisted living communities keep their teams trained, compliant, and confident. Our goal is a platform that feels welcoming and professional — one your staff are glad to use, and that leadership can trust.

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