Act 70 Reporting Guidance
An administrator or employee of a facility who observes suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment or has reasonable cause to suspect that abuse or neglect has occurred
What is a mandatory reporter?
Provides protective services to adults within this age range
What are ages 18 to 59?
Responsible for oversight and implementation of OAPSA
What is PA Department of Aging (PDA)?
An event with potential to adversely impact an individual's health, safety or rights
What is an incident?
Has overall responsibility of incident management
What is the Incident Management (IM) Representative?
The infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish
What is abuse?
Required to investigate allegations & determine if an individual is at imminent risk and if protective services are necessary
What is APS Agency (Liberty Healthcare)?
An individual of any age who receives care, services or treatment in or from a facility
What is a recipient?
An approach to minimize the severity of risk and reduce the likelihood of occurrence or recurrence of an adverse event
What is risk mitigation?
All reportable incidents categorized as critical incidents require an investigation and will be assigned to one of these at Suncom
What is a Certified Investigator?
What is neglect?
APS Region that Suncom is in
What is central?
Leaving an adult without essential care and/or services for extended periods of time
What is abandonment?
Any person who witnesses, experiences the incident, is informed of an allegation of an incident, or is the first to discover or recognize signs of an incident
What is an initial reporter?
Reviews the CI's report/file, develops corrective actions, and weighs the evidence to make a determination
What is the Administrative Review Committee?
An administrator or employee who has reasonable cause to suspect that a recipient is a victim makes this to the Statewide Protective Services Hotline
What is an oral report?
Reports must also be made here if the case involves sexual abuse, serious injury, serious bodily injury or suspicious death
What is law enforcement?
Examples include bruises/unexplained injuries, failing to maintain personal hygiene, and financial changes
What are red flags of abuse?
When initial reporters are mandated to report incidents
What is immediately?
Injury accidental, injury unexplained, choking, and pressure injuries would be incident examples under this primary category
What is serious injury?
Faxed to Liberty Healthcare within 48 hours of making a report to the hotline
What is a written report?
Incidents are evaluated in terms of these in the APS law in order to determine whether or not a specific incident is reportable
What are the statutory definitions?
Number of cases that never come to light for every one case of elder abuse that comes to the attention of a responsible entity
What is 23?
Person that receives information from an initial reporter and is responsible to manage the incident from beginning to end
What is the point person?
The IM Rep/DOC will conduct and document a trend analysis of all incident categories within this timespan
What is every three months?