Wood v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Edna Wood (petitioner) appeals here from an order of the State Civil Service Commission (Commission) which sustained her removal from employment as a Psychiatric Aide I at the Warren State Hospital of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (respondent). She had been responsible for the daily care of 10 incapacitated patients, which involved their feeding and bathing and the changing of their clothes. By a letter dated January 25, 1978, she was notified of her dismissal effective February 8, 1978 and informed that the reason for it was her “continued unsatisfactory…