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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 00-250

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Licensure of Pediatric Extended Care Centers

[30 Pa.B. 821]

   After the passage of Senate Bill 670, signed into law as Act 54 of 1999 (act), the Department of Health (Department) is currently accepting applications for licensure of Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PECC).

   Section 3 of the act defines a ''pediatric extended care center'' as:

Any building or buildings, or other place, whether operated for-profit or not-for-profit, which undertakes through its ownership or management to provide basic nonresidential services to more than six medically dependent or technologically dependent children who are not related to the owner or operator by blood, marriage or adoption and who require such services. Prerequisites for admission are a prescription from the child's attending physician and consent of a parent of legal guardian.

   Under section 6 of the act:

Any person desiring to secure a license to maintain and operate a PECC must submit an application to the department upon forms prepared and furnished by it . . . .

   The application must include the annual license fee of $500, proof of adequate liability insurance coverage or protection and evidence that a bond has been posted by the applicant.

   In accordance with section 7 of the act, until regulations are promulgated the Department shall issue a license to an operator when the following standards have been met:

   (1)  The operator is a responsible person.
   (2)  The place to be used by a PECC is adequately constructed, equipped, maintained and operated to safely and efficiently render the services offered.
(3)  The PECC provides safe and efficient services which are adequate for the care, treatment and comfort of the patients or residents of the facility.
(4)  There is substantial compliance with the requirements of this act . . . .

   The specific standards to be applied, until regulations are adopted, can be found in section 15 of the act.

   Questions regarding the licensure of PECC should be directed to the Department's Division of Home Health at (717) 783-1380 or the Department's web site at www.health.state.pa.us. Persons with a disability may also submit questions to the program in alternate formats, such as by audiotape, braille or using V/TT: (717) 783-6514 or Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984 [TT].

   Requests for licensure application should be sent to the following address: Department of Health, Division of Home Health Care, 132 Kline Plaza, Suite A, Harrisburg, PA 17104.

ROBERT S. ZIMMERMAN, Jr.,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-250. Filed for public inspection February 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]


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