Instituting a national exam for ALF administrators would not be wise in Virginia. Virginia already regulates ALFs and credentialing for administrators of those VA regulated facilities should correlate with the VA ALF regulations. Since states license/regulate facilities, it would be more appropriate to have credentialing of administrators occur at the state level since there is not a national consensus on regulations for ALFs or even what the definition of an ALF should be. As in other licensing/credentialing arenas, over time when consensus is achieved it may make sense to have a national exam adopted to allow for cross-state application but for now that would not be appropriate.