When her mother suffered a serious fall last year at her Weirton, W.Va., home and died 20 days later, Heather Amos-Yeo went through the many steps to arrange accommodations near her Middlesex Township home for her father, Bob Amos.

Amos, 80, was diagnosed with dementia almost 20 years ago, but got by at home with the help of his wife until her fatal fall.

When the closing on the family home in Weirton occurred in April, Amos-Yeo moved her father to Paramount Senior Living at Cranberry, a bucolic, welcoming care center in Seven Fields.

Amos-Yeo, while still grieving the loss of her mother, was at least at ease over her father’s accommodations, saying he received excellent care at Paramount.

Then, last week, Bob Amos and all other residents and families at Paramount received a letter from James J. Cox, CEO at Paramount Health Resources, alerting them that they had 30 days to vacate the facility.

The letter stated that “physical limitations of the facility have made maintaining operations in the market unsustainable.”

Residents and their families were told the letter served as their 30-day notice and that the building will be vacated Dec. 9.

“For me, I bawled when I heard,” Amos-Yeo said. “I’m very upset with this CEO. The people at the facility have been wonderful with my dad.”

Amos-Yeo has not taken advantage of the assistance proffered in the letter, which stated “we will make every reasonable effort to assist you in finding a comparable personal care location at another Paramount-related community, if practical.”

She wants to keep her father as close to her as possible so she can visit the man who served honorably in the U.S. Navy, worked at Weirton Steel, and operated a welding business on the side to provide for his family.

The scramble to find nearby accommodations that offer the same level of personal care at the same monthly cost is now underway, and she has missed days of work in the past two weeks trying to find a residence for her father.

The closest Paramount facilities are three personal care homes in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.

Amos-Yeo said those are not an option for her. “I would never set foot in another one, if the CEO is capable of this,” she said.

She has toured five facilities since the Paramount notification on Nov. 7, but must find one that is affordable so her father’s finances hold out for the long term.

Amos-Yeo thought she had a local care home lined up, but when the staff learned he needs twice-daily insulin shots, they declined his admission.

She said that facility is now working with Amos’ doctor to see if he can switch to a non-injected medication for his diabetes.

If he must remain on the insulin shots, Amos will likely be placed in a facility in McCandless Township, Allegheny County, that gives injections.

“That’s a much farther drive for me,” Amos-Yeo said.

She remains frustrated at the 30-day notice given by Cox.

“I’m very disappointed in him,” she said. “You’ve got someone who is in a business like this, and I just feel that the fact that he didn’t give the seniors until after the holidays (to move out) speaks volumes that it’s all about the money for him.”

Cox explained that the Seven Fields building, which he bought in 2004, did not have showers in the bathrooms of every resident’s room, which made it substandard in the industry.

The cost to add showers would have significantly raised monthly fees for residents.

He sold the building, and it will not be a care home going forward.

“We are going to be there through December,” Cox said. “We are not kicking anybody to the curb. It’s been rough on us to do this.”

He said all but one of the 46 residents at the Seven Fields building have found other accommodations. A few of those are looking at the Paramount care facilities south of Pittsburgh, he said.

“We are offering other opportunities for our employees in our South Hills buildings,” Cox said. “Some will be accepting and some leaving to seek other employment.”

He said people who cannot be offered positions in Paramount’s South Hills facilities will be given a layoff notice and severance package.

Cox is disappointed that his actions are being maligned by families.

“Obviously that’s why we are here, to provide care to patients,” Cox said. “We will continue with that philosophy until the last patient is transferred to another location.”

Natalie Scott, deputy communications director at the state Department of Human Services, which oversees senior care facilities, said licensed long-term living facilities — which Paramount is — must provide 30 days notice if they plan to close.

Scott said facilities cannot close until safe accommodations have been identified for all residents.

Amos-Yeo hopes to find an affordable facility that provides the same standard of care her father received from the staff at Paramount.

“He looked like he was on death’s doorstep before he arrived there, and now that he’s there, he looks so much better,” she said.

She cannot care for her father, as he is insulin dependent, incontinent and requires bathing and dressing each day.

“He needs nursing care, and he does a lot better receiving that care,” she said.

Amos-Yeo said her father was perplexed when told he would be moving.

“He said ‘I like it here. Why am I moving?’” she said. “He’s not angry; it’s just confusing for him.”