Document Citation: 62 P.S. § 213

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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 62. POOR PERSONS AND PUBLIC WELFARE
CHAPTER 1. PUBLIC WELFARE CODE
ARTICLE II. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

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08/31/2009

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§ 213. Personal care home and assisted living residence administrators

(a) After December 31, 1990, all personal care homes shall identify and appoint a personal care home administrator or administrators who meet the qualifications provided in this section.

(a.1) All assisted living residences shall identify and appoint an administrator or administrators who meet the qualifications provided in this section for personal care home administrators and any additional standards pertaining to the operations of assisted living residences as the department may establish by regulation.

(b) A personal care home administrator shall:

(1) be at least twenty-one years of age and be of good moral character;
and

(2) have knowledge, education and training in all of the following:

(i) fire prevention and emergency planning;

(ii) first aid, medications, medical terminology and personal
hygiene;

(iii) local, State and Federal laws and regulations;

(iv) nutrition, food handling and sanitation;

(v) recreation;

(vi) mental illness and gerontology;

(vii) community resources and social services; and

(viii) staff supervision, budgeting, financial record keeping and
training; or

(3) be a licensed nursing home administrator. The department may
establish separate standards of knowledge and training for licensed
nursing home administrators who wish to operate a personal care home.

(c) The department shall promulgate regulations requiring orientation and training for all direct care staff and regulations requiring qualifications for administrators in a personal care home or assisted living residence. Such regulations for assisted living direct care staff and administrators shall meet or exceed the requirements for direct service staff and administrators in a personal care home.

(d) By June 1, 1989, the department shall by regulation develop such standards for knowledge, education or training to meet the standards of this section.

(e) If not otherwise available, the department shall schedule, and offer at cost, training and educational programs for a person to meet the knowledge, educational and training requirements established by this act.