Criminal History Not Bar to Employment in SNF In Pa.

Elderlawprof blog founder, elderlaw prof extraordinaire and renaissance woman, Professor Kim Dayton sent the following article Nursing homes free to hire applicants with criminal histories; Pennsylvania won’t appeal decision striking down law .  According to the article, the state has decided not to appeal a decision striking a Pennsylvania law  that “prohibiting nursing homes and long-term care facilities from hiring employees with criminal histories.” The article explains that the law contained a lifetime employment ban in the state’s APS statute.  Part of the challenge to the law is that the statute didn’t differentiate  between the types of crimes, circumstances or even when the crime was committed, so something minor or a crime committed decades ago would count in imposing the lifetime ban.

The opinion is available here.