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Hearing officer says Masonicare discharge notice omits required elements; facility will resubmit
Summary
At a June administrative hearing, Hearing Officer Stacy Shulman found Masonicare’s June 4 discharge notice lacked statutory elements—including the 10‑day appeal deadline and a required discharge plan—and the facility agreed to resend a corrected notice before the matter proceeds to a hearing.
Hearing Officer Stacy Shulman presiding over a June 24 administrative hearing said Masonicare’s June 4, 2025, notice of discharge for a resident at 22 Masonic Avenue in Wallingford, Connecticut, omitted statutory requirements and must be corrected before the agency can proceed.
Shulman, reading the applicable statute into the record, said the notice failed to include the 10‑day deadline to request a hearing under subsection D and did not contain a discharge plan required by subsection C. “So 1 of the thing that is missing from here,” Shulman said, pointing to conflicting timeframes in the document that listed 60 days, 20 days and also a 10‑day appeal deadline.
The omission matters because, Shulman said, absent fulfillment of the statute’s requirements she would have to uphold an appeal and issue a decision against the notice of discharge. “I would write a decision that would uphold the appeal,” she said, explaining that rescinding and reissuing a correct notice would be the clean way to proceed.
The hearing record includes a termination…
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