This customizable document, Suspected Child, Adult, Disabled Person or Elderly Abuse/Neglect/ Exploitation, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Imaging Services Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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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:
	...designed to assist employees and healthcare providers associated with the hospital in identifying patient abuse and neglect or of illegal, unprofessional or unethical conduct by or in the hospital. Emotional Abuse: Mental or emotional injury to the person that results in an observable and material impairment in growth, development or psychological functioning. Causing or permitting the person to be in a situation in which the person sustains a mental or emotional injury that results in an...