Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-63-28

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 50, December 12, 2024

Section 30-63-28 - Abuse; neglect; exploitation

(a) Whenever any agent of a provider suspects that abuse, neglect, or exploitation is or has taken place, that agent shall immediately take appropriate action to ensure that any specifically involved person or persons and all others are protected while an investigation is conducted.

(b) Each agent shall exercise any authority that the agent has for the purpose of the prevention of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of each person served.

(c) A provider shall regularly conduct training and take other steps to ensure that any agent, person, parent, guardian, and any other individual from each person's support network is advised about how to contact the appropriate state agency charged with providing adult protective services whenever abuse, neglect, or exploitation is suspected or witnessed.

(d) The provider shall immediately report any incident of suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation of which the provider has become aware to the appropriate state agency charged with providing adult protective services. Any agent shall immediately report any incident of suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation, in either manner:

(1) Directly to the appropriate state agency; or

(2) in accordance with the provider's written policy for reporting an incident. A provider shall inform each agent that any report of an incident of suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation may be made directly or anonymously to the appropriate state agency, shall ensure that each agent has ready access to the phone number for making any report, and shall take no steps to interfere with an agent making any report directly or anonymously.

(e) Each agent shall fully cooperate with any state agency conducting an investigation resulting from a report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.

(f) A provider shall not employ any individual who is known by a provider to have had a conviction for or a prior employment history of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of children or vulnerable adults.

(g) A provider shall adhere to all laws, regulations, and procedures related to the reporting of, protecting from, and correcting the cause of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.

(h) This regulation shall take effect on and after October 1, 1998.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-63-28

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 75-3307b and K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 39-1801, et seq.; effective July 1, 1996; amended Oct. 1, 1998.