Monitoring Safeguards

Monitoring Safeguards A. Case managers are required to provide each waiver person with written information regarding their rights as a waiver person during the initial assessment. B. Case managers must provide the person’s information during the initial assessment regarding the Mississippi Vulnerable Person’s Act and phone numbers of when and who to call if abuse, neglect or exploitation is alleged. C. All Assisted Living (AL) providers and their employees must immediately report orally or telephonically, within twenty-four (24) hours of discovery excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and in writing within seventy-two (72) hours of discovery, to the State Department of Health, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Attorney General's office, the Division of Medicaid Office of Long Term Care, and any other entity required by federal or state law any suspected, alleged or reported instances of the following: 1. Abuse, 2. Neglect, 3. Exploitation, 4. Suspicious death, or 5. Unauthorized use of restraints, seclusion or restrictive interventions.