Pennsylvania survey readiness
What Pennsylvania Department of Human Services can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.
What Pennsylvania requires
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: An UNANNOUNCED fire drill at least once a month — twelve a year — plus a fire drill during sleeping hours once every six months. Separately, a fire safety inspection and fire drill conducted by a fire safety expert must be completed annually and documented. 55 Pa. Code §2600.107 (emergency preparedness); §2600.123 (emergency evacuation); §2600.132 (fire drills)
- Proof your plan was filed, and the date it went. Pennsylvania personal care homes must review, update and SUBMIT their written emergency procedures annually to the local emergency management agency. 55 Pa. Code §2600.107 (emergency preparedness); §2600.123 (emergency evacuation); §2600.132 (fire drills)
- Required contents of the written emergency procedures. Contact telephone numbers for local and State emergency management agencies; local resources for housing and emergency care of residents; means of transportation if relocation is required; and the duties and responsibilities of staff during evacuation, during transportation, and at the emergency location. That last one — duties at the destination — is the part most plans omit. 55 Pa. Code §2600.107
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: An UNANNOUNCED fire drill at least once a month. A fire safety inspection and fire drill conducted by a fire safety expert must also be completed annually and documented. 55 Pa. Code §2800.107 (emergency preparedness); §2800.132 (fire drills)
- Per-resident designated person and confidential medical information. Beyond the personal care home list, an assisted living residence must hold contact information for EACH resident's designated person, and must have a plan to provide emergency medical information for each resident in a way that preserves confidentiality. Two competing duties in one requirement — the information has to travel with the resident without being exposed. 55 Pa. Code §2800.107
The evidence, and where it comes from
Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Pennsylvania fire drill log produces the drill record at the frequency this state sets, the emergency plan builder writes the plan itself from the same research, and the compliance calendar puts the life-safety tests on dates. Anything you record against the building shows up on the checklist already ticked.
Everything else we’ve researched about Pennsylvania
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Pennsylvania deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Pennsylvania deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Pennsylvania deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.
Questions people ask
- What does a Pennsylvania surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period (55 Pa. Code §2600.107 (emergency preparedness); §2600.123 (emergency evacuation); §2600.132 (fire drills)). Proof your plan was filed, and the date it went (55 Pa. Code §2600.107 (emergency preparedness); §2600.123 (emergency evacuation); §2600.132 (fire drills)). Required contents of the written emergency procedures (55 Pa. Code §2600.107). Source: Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. Last checked July 2026.