As the health care industry's most comprehensive library of customizable policy and procedure templates, MCN Healthcare's Emergency Department Policy and Procedure Manual includes this customizable template, Suspected Child, Adult, Disabled Person or Elderly Abuse/Neglect/ Exploitation. MCN's policy library helps you meet compliance with Joint Commission and federal regulations including CMS, CDC, OSHA, OIG, HIPAA and more.

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Here is some sample content from Suspected Child, Adult, Disabled Person or Elderly Abuse/Neglect/ Exploitation:

	POLICY: Patients have the right to be free from mental, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse, neglect and exploitation. It is the policy of this hospital to protect patients from real or perceived abuse, neglect or exploitation from anyone, including staff members, students, volunteers, other patients, visitors or family members. This hospital mandates that, under the guidance of applicable laws, any healthcare worker having reasonable cause to believe that any person is in the state of abuse, exploitation or neglect shall report the information to the appropriate regulatory agency. All...
Second excerpt:
	...the necessary care and demonstration of an intent not to return by a parent, guardian or managing possessory conservator. Neglectful Supervision: Placing in, or failing to remove, the person from a situation that a reasonable individual would realize required judgment or actions beyond the child's level of maturity, physical condition or mental abilities and that results in bodily injury or substantial risk of immediate harm to the person. Medical Neglect: The failure to seek, obtain...