Mandate that all facilities report to a third-party legal entity within the state whenever there is death or significant injury. Mandate that all facilities utilize the services of non-legal citizen and family monitoring groups who can conduct unannounced visits. Each facility defines for itself what restraint and seclusion activities will be allowed. This policy is inadequate because all it requires is that a facility has a written policy and that policy is consistently followed. To NAMI, there is no appropriate treatment and care use for involuntary restraints.
Restraints are appropriate only for responding to emergency situations involving safety.
But even this inadequate policy is meaningless, because it is not enforced. But as discussed earlier, Gloria Huntley received 558 hours of restraint over a two month period using 48 hour increments of restraint. NAMI applauded the Commission s initial announcement that sentinel events should be reported to the Commission, followed by the submission of a root cause analysis. As The Hartford Courant reported, few of these events ever become known to the public. An important legal principle is the theory of reliance.