Joint Report from HHS OIG, ACL, and OCR: Group Home Beneficiaries are at Risk of Serious Harm
This January, 2018 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General, Administration for Community Living, and Office of Civil Rights acknowledged the systemic shortcomings in protecting residents of HCBS group homes from incidents of abuse and neglect.
The OIG found that up to 99 percent of these critical incidents were not reported to the appropriate law enforcement or state agencies as required. The report stated, “Group Home beneficiaries are at risk of serious harm. OIG found that health and safety policies and procedures were not being followed. Failure to comply with these policies and procedures left group home beneficiaries at risk of serious harm. These are not isolated incidents but a systemic problem – 49 States had media reports of health and safety problems in group homes.”
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The Joint Report is available for download here