This customizable document, Suspected Child, Adult, Disabled Person or Elderly Abuse/Neglect/Exploitation, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Outpatient Surgery and Ambulatory 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 facility 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 facility 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 person to engage in sexual conduct Causing, permitting, encouraging or allowing the photographing, filming or depicting of the person if the person knew or should have known that the resulting photograph, film or depiction is obscene or pornographic Abandonment: The leaving of the person in a situation where he/she would be exposed to substantial risk of harm without arranging for the necessary care and demonstration of an intent not to return by a parent, guardian or managing...