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Staff development software for the whole DSD job.

Draco Staff Development runs your facility’s training, compliance, credential verification and survey readiness in one place — automating the renewals, reminders and reports a Director of Staff Development would otherwise do by hand.

Federal CMS & OIG rules everywhere, with deep California support — CDPH forms and OASYS e-filing — built in.

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Built and used daily by a working DSD at a California skilled-nursing facility. Opening to more facilities soon.

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You didn’t become a nurse to live in spreadsheets.

In-service calendars, CNA renewals, license checks, OIG screening, fit-test logs, evaluation due-dates, survey binders — the staff-development job is a hundred moving parts, each with its own deadline and its own consequence if it slips. Draco Staff Development keeps every one of them current as a byproduct of normal use, and tells you the moment something needs attention. Survey readiness stops being a scramble.

Your whole program on one screen

Every requirement, every employee, every deadline — scored, current and survey-ready, kept up to date as you work.

Three of the biggest time-sinks, handled for you

The work that used to live in binders, spreadsheets and state portals — in one place, each screen built to the rule it satisfies.

CNA renewals · CDPH OASYS

Renew your CNAs — and let the software file it with the state.

Track every renewal from draft to approved and auto-assemble the complete CDPH packet. When a CNA’s hours and records all check out, Draco files the renewal through CDPH’s OASYS portal for you and records the confirmation number — no more re-keying into the state system by hand.

Scheduling · NHPPD

Build the schedule with your ratios in view.

Lay out the pay period across AM, PM and NOC shifts, reconcile names, and export or email the grid. NHPPD ties the schedule straight to your hours-per-patient-day, so the HSC §1276.65 minimum — 3.5 hours, at least 2.4 by CNAs — is never a guess.

AFL library · documents

Never miss a CDPH All-Facility Letter again.

Every CDPH AFL, archived and searchable, with an alert the moment a new one drops — next to your facility document vault. A policy change reaches you before a surveyor asks whether you saw it.

Everything a Director of Staff Development actually does

Every job the role touches, in one login — each screen built to the California and federal rule it satisfies (CMS 42 CFR §483.95, Title 22, HSC §1276.65, Cal-OSHA).

The compliance matrix

Every employee graded against ~20 requirements — health screening, immunizations, licensure, CPR/BLS, background clearances, in-services and evaluations — with expired vs. never-recorded shown honestly, per licence and per department.

Staff records & credentialing

One always-current record per employee: license & certification history, occupational health (TB, physical, Hep B, flu, respirator fit-test), education and discipline, and a secure document vault with role-tiered SSN handling. Bulk-import a whole roster in minutes.

CNA renewals, on autopilot

Track every renewal from draft to approved, auto-assemble the full CDPH packet, and — when a CNA’s hours and records all check out — file it through CDPH’s OASYS portal for you, returning the confirmation number.

Official CDPH forms

Fill the state’s official forms on screen — 283C, 283A, the 278 series, 279 and 276A — print, retain, and keep every version on file.

Verification & screening

Live CDPH CNA/HHA registry checks, RN/LVN license verification against the state boards, daily OIG LEIE exclusion screening and Medi-Cal S&I — so you never bill Medicare or Medicaid for an excluded worker.

Training & in-service

Plan the year on a training calendar, run recurring sessions, capture numbered sign-in sheets, issue certificates, and track each CNA’s CEU progress against the CDPH 48-hour / 12-per-year rules.

Scheduling & staffing

Build the pay-period schedule across AM/PM/NOC shifts, reconcile names, and export or email it — with NHPPD tying the schedule to your hours-per-patient-day (HSC §1276.65).

Survey readiness

A weighted readiness score, a facility-records register (fire drills, P&P, Facility Assessment, POCs, minutes), the CDPH entrance checklist, your CMS survey & deficiency history, and the daily NHPPD sheet.

Evaluations

Skills competency check-offs to the official CDPH 276A, a performance-review builder with weighted scoring and captured signatures, resident-care evaluations, and “due” rosters so nothing lapses.

AFL library & documents

A searchable archive of CDPH All-Facility Letters with an alert the moment a new one drops, plus a facility document vault — so a policy change never slips past you.

Integrations & imports

Nightly Relias auto-import files completions to the right employee and maps them onto compliance requirements; AHA BLS/HeartSaver rosters flow in too — no more copy-paste from spreadsheets.

Automation & reporting

Around 25 scheduled reminders and reports sent for you — class & in-service reminders, renewal watch-lists, license-expiry alerts, a Weekly Brief — plus 20+ data-backed reports you can print, export or email, branded as your facility.

Built for SNF & RCFE compliance Written by a licensed nurse Strict per-facility data isolation 2FA & passkeys, audit trail
Simple pricing
$299 / month per facility
  • Every feature above — no tiers, no add-ons
  • Unlimited staff records for the facility
  • 14-day free trial at launch — cancel anytime
  • Your data stays yours, isolated to your facility
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No card required to join the waitlist — we’ll reach out as spots open.

Questions facilities ask

Yes. The federal layer — CMS 42 CFR §483.95 in-service tracking, daily OIG LEIE exclusion screening, and RN/LVN license verification — works for any U.S. skilled-nursing or assisted-living facility. The California-specific automation (CDPH forms, OASYS e-filing, Title 22 and the HSC §1276.65 NHPPD math) is built in for California facilities. If you’re in another state, tell us where — we’re expanding state coverage with our early-access facilities.

Directors of Staff Development, in-service coordinators, DONs and administrators at skilled-nursing (SNF) and assisted-living / RCFE facilities — anyone who owns training, credentialing, compliance and survey readiness.

Every facility’s data is isolated — no records are shared between facilities. Sensitive fields such as SSNs are handled with role-tiered access, sign-in is protected by two-factor authentication and passkeys, and an audit trail records changes.

The platform is live and used every day by a working DSD at a California skilled-nursing facility, and we’re onboarding more facilities in a limited early-access phase. Join the waitlist and we’ll reach out as spots open; your facility begins with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime.

You bulk-import your whole roster to populate the compliance matrix rather than typing it in, and nightly Relias and AHA imports keep training completions flowing automatically — so you see your real compliance picture quickly instead of after weeks of data entry.

$299/month per facility — every feature included, unlimited staff records, no tiers and no add-ons. A 14-day free trial at launch, and you can cancel anytime.

Still have a question? Email support@dsdcertify.com.

Not ready for the full platform? Get the ready-to-teach in-service library as a one-time purchase, or license it for your whole facility.

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