By: Kate Giammarise
Pennsylvania’s human services agency should improve its monitoring of group homes where people with developmental disabilities live, particularly monitoring and reporting when there are serious health incidents, according to a report by a federal watchdog.
The state Department of Human Services needs to do a better job of making sure serious incidents are reported quickly, ensuring deaths are examined, and that suspicious deaths are referred to law enforcement, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
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