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Imminent jeopardy to public health and safety means an immediate and significant threat of serious harm to human well-being, including conditions that may result in serious injury, or death, caused by Tribal action or inaction or as otherwise provided in an AFA.

To assist residents, facilities must inform them of the name, specialty, and means of contacting the physician responsible for the resident's care. Residents have the right to participate in care planning meetings.

Immediate Jeopardy Triggers The team must investigate and use professional judgment to determine if the situation has caused or is likely to cause serious harm, injury, impairment or death. Harm does not have to occur for an Immediate Jeopardy tag.

Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) represents a situation in which entity noncompliance has placed the health and safety of recipients in its care at risk for serious injury, serious harm, serious impairment or death.

A: When an immediate jeopardy to patient health or safety is documented, the [state agency] and [regional office] complete termination procedures within 23 calendar days. Processing times given here are the maximum allowed.

Chemical & Physical Restraints & Abuse The resident has the right to: Be free from verbal, sexual, physical, and mental abuse, corporal punishment, involuntary seclusion, neglect, misappropriation of resident property and exploitation. (42 CFR §483.12))

Examples of situations that led to Immediate Jeopardy Findings: Patient death related to side rail entrapment. A patient receiving oxygen via nasal cannula used a cigarette lighter to light a cigarette. The patient caught fire, sustaining first degree burns on his hands and facial hair.