Incident Type Definitions

Abuse/Neglect: Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse and/or the failure to provide adequate supervision and expectations and access to the basic necessities of life, including food, shelter, and clothing.

Death: The resident passed away.

Elopement: An instance in which a resident runs away, unexcused or unexpectedly, from the facility property where the child resides.

Interface with Law Enforcement: Any incident that requires the involvement of the police or sheriff’s department.

Restraint: A mechanical, personal or pharmaceutical intervention that temporarily restricts a resident to prevent a serious injury to the resident or others.

Seclusion: The involuntary confinement of a resident alone in a room or an area from which the resident is physically prevented from leaving.

Serious Injury: Any significant impairment of the physical condition of the resident as determined by qualified medical personnel.

Serious Medical Condition: Any significant disease or illness that impacts the child’s day-to-day functioning.

Sexual Aggression: Acts or threats of sexual violence made by the resident towards another individual, including behaviors which could cause someone to feel harassed, intimidated, or afraid.

Suicide Attempt: A non-fatal, self-directed, potentially injurious behavior with intent to die as a result of the behavior.

Victimization: An incident in which a resident is singled out for subjection to crime, exploitation, unfair treatment, or other wrong doing.

Physical aggression or attempted physical aggression toward peer: Physical aggression or attempted physical aggression toward another resident. The intensity of aggression may vary and may include the use of a weapon or an object that could potentially function as a weapon.

Physical aggression or attempted physical aggression toward staff: Physical aggression or interrupted physical aggression toward a staff. The intensity of aggression may vary and may include the use of a weapon or an object that could potentially function as a weapon.

Verbal aggression toward peer: Verbal aggression or threat toward another resident.

Verbal aggression toward staff: Verbal aggression or threat toward a staff member.

Generalized aggression: Aggressive behavior that is not directed at a particular person or people but has the potential to cause harm to residents and/or staff. Ex – Individual randomly throwing items in the milieu.

Property damage: Intentional damage or destruction of property belonging to the facility or another resident.

Threat of self-harm: Verbalization of intent to self-harm.

Self-harm: Intentional infliction of hurt, pain, injury, and/or mutilation upon oneself by a resident.

Medication error: Resident’s medication was not taken as prescribed due to staff error.

Medication refusal: Resident’s medication was not taken due to resident refusal.

Missed medication: Resident’s medication was not taken due to resident absence.

ED visit, medical: Resident visits an emergency department for a medical evaluation involving physical health.

ED visit, psychiatric: Resident visits an emergency department for a medical evaluation involving psychiatric health.

Alcohol or substance use: Confirmed use of alcohol or another mood-altering/mind-altering substance, verified by test or resident self-admission.

Suspected alcohol or substance use: Suspected use of alcohol or another mood-altering/mind-altering substance.

Minor injury: An injury that does not rise to the level of “serious”, as defined by HFS.

Minor medical condition: A disease or illness that does not rise to the level of “serious”, as defined by HFS.

Head Banging: banging head against an object

Head injury: a situation where the individual was evaluated by medical staff and noted/diagnosed to have any type of head injury e.g., contusion, concussion

Attempted elopement: An instance in which a resident acts upon an intention to elope (run away) but is unsuccessful in leaving the facility’s property.

AWOL: An instance in which a resident who is permitted to be off the facility’s property does not return at the specified time but is not absent overnight.