Connecting Oregon's Direct Care Community

The official Oregon Home and Community-Based Services Caregiver Registry. This platform provides a centralized resource for finding home and community-based services caregivers, accessing up-to-date provider information, and connecting with training, certification, and workforce resources that support Oregon’s long-term care system.

SB 1556 requires for Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) to establish and maintain an online home or community-based services caregiver registry accessible to the public. “Employer” would include the Home Care Commission, and/or an in-home care agency that hires, enters into an arrangement with or contracts with a caregiver. “Caregiver” would include a home care worker, and an individual providing in-home care services as an employee of or under an arrangement or contract with an in-home care agency.

The creation of this registry will provide access for consumers to search for a caregiver providing services within their local area/region, while ensuring up-to-date info on the provider is shown within the registry.

Requires ODHS to establish certification process for direct care providers of home or community-based services and implement online registry of direct care providers of home or community-based services.

Important Information:
The caregiver registry search function will be available starting January 2027, in order to notify all caregivers of the upcoming program. Caregivers who wish to opt-out of public listing may submit an opt-out request to the Agency during this period, along with any questions that they may have regarding this registry. Requests received within the applicable period will be processed in accordance with Agency procedures.

After the notification period ends, the registry search will be available to the public, which will include the various provider types as listed in the bill. Caregivers who wish to opt-out after the initial notification period, may still submit their requests directly to the agency via the opt-out form.