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Commissioner defends move to community group homes and details watchdog steps after reported incidents
Summary
Commissioner Sarah Edelman described progress shifting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities into community settings, detailed site-visit oversight that found ~1,300 incidents and 283 placements on a central registry, and outlined plans to strengthen medical review and mortality oversight under proposed legislation.
Commissioner Sarah Edelman told the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee that expanding community-based group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) has been a priority of the Murphy administration and that the department has invested in accountability and monitoring.
Edelman said the administration has opened about 2,300 new community beds with nearly 1,100 more in development and raised direct-support wages significantly (from about $12.66 an hour to an average of…
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