Personal care home owners say changes in state regulations won’t help residents
Sunday, October 30th, 2005.
Pittsburgh, PA - Welfare department officials held explanatory workshops around the state over the summer for administrators of the more than 1,600 personal care homes. The homes range from eight-bed, mom-and-pop dwellings run on a shoestring to the large, assisted-living facilities that woo affluent suburbanites as they become frail.
The operators all have a new rule book that increases credentials to enter the field, expands training requirements, adds assessments of residents’ needs, toughens fire safety provisions, requires medication education and makes other provisions deemed overdue by the state and consumer advocacy groups.
They will also have unannounced annual visits from DPW inspectors, whereas they previously knew in advance the specific date of an inspection.
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