Wolf Administration Announces Strategy To Ease Long-Term Care Facility Restrictions Through Gradual Three-Step Process To Protect Vulnerable Populations

The Pennsylvania Department of Health and Department Human Services issued updated guidance to ensure a safe return to activities, visitation, and other events for residents in nursing homes, personal care homes, assisted living residences, and private intermediate care facilities. In order to cautiously lift restrictions in long-term care facilities (LTCFs), the departments will now require all LTCFs to meet several prerequisites before proceeding into the official three-step process of reopening.

LTCFs must develop an implementation plan and post that plan to the facility’s website, if the facility has a website that specifies how the reopening and visitation . . .