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Editorial standards

What we publish, what we refuse to, and where every number comes from.

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How does Allentown Senior Advisor source its facts?

Every regulatory statement cites the Pennsylvania regulation it comes from; cost figures come from CareScout's 2025 Pennsylvania release; Medical Assistance figures from DHS and CMS's 2026 standards; population figures from Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates; and facility data from DHS's provider directory and CMS.

What will Allentown Senior Advisor not publish?

We do not publish figures we cannot trace to a primary source, facility details that are not in DHS's or CMS's data, reviews, testimonials, or ratings of our own.

  • No Lehigh Valley cost median: CareScout's 2025 release publishes Pennsylvania statewide medians only.
  • No memory care median: CareScout does not survey memory care.
  • No personal care home ratings: neither Pennsylvania nor CMS rates personal care homes, and we will not invent a score.
  • No facility prices: DHS does not collect them, and quotes change with care level.
  • No facility details from marketing copy or operator websites.

How often is the directory updated?

The directory is regenerated from DHS's provider directory and inspection summaries (retrieved November 6, 2026) and CMS's Provider Data Catalog (data as of October 1, 2026) whenever the fetch scripts are rerun.

Each listing page shows its source and data date. Page dates in our sitemap change only when a page's content actually changes.

How does Allentown Senior Advisor handle ratings and inspection records?

We show CMS's ratings exactly as CMS publishes them, labelled with the data date, only for nursing homes CMS certifies, and we count violations and list the 55 Pa. Code sections cited in DHS's own Licensing Inspection Summaries, with dates and links to the reports.

Comparisons on facility pages, such as whether staffing hours are above the Lehigh Valley median, are simple arithmetic on published figures, and each states what it is compared against.

How are facility pages chosen?

Every personal care home or assisted living residence licensed for 20 or more residents, every home with a secured dementia unit and every certified nursing home gets its own page, because the state's data for those homes is rich enough to say something specific; smaller homes and agencies appear as rows on the listing pages.

We do not create pages for homes or agencies that would carry little more than a name and address, and we never add pages just to increase page counts.

How do I request a correction?

Email advisors@allentownsenioradvisor.com with the page and the correction; operators may request corrections to how their data is displayed, but the underlying records come from DHS and CMS, so changes to them must be made with those agencies.

Reader corrections about Pennsylvania rules or benefit amounts are checked against the regulation or agency page before we change anything.

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