Texas Administrative Code › Title 1 - ADMINISTRATION › Part 15 - TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION › Chapter 351 - COORDINATED PLANNING AND DELIVERY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 351.505 - Information Collection; Uniform Data Collection Procedures

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
Each state agency must prepare and keep on file a complete
					 written report of each investigation the agency conducts under Chapter 261 of
					 the Family Code. Each state agency must compile, maintain, and make available
					 statistics on the incidence of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation in each
					 facility it investigates. The statistics also must be forwarded to the Texas
					 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services to be compiled. The rules and
					 policies adopted and implemented by a state agency must, to the greatest extent
					 practicable, provide a uniform method of collecting and analyzing data on
					 suspected child abuse, neglect, or exploitation in a facility. A state agency
					 must use the following procedures when analyzing data on abuse, neglect, and
					 exploitation investigations:
(1) Sort
				  by program classification the number of investigations completed. Examples of
				  program classification include state hospitals, private psychiatric facilities,
				  and maternity homes.
(2) Sort by
				  program classification the number of confirmed investigations that are
				  completed.
(3) Sort all completed
				  investigations according to disposition for example confirmed, unconfirmed,
				  inconclusive, or unfounded.
(4)
				  Sort all completed confirmed investigations by whether the identity of the
				  perpetrator is known or unknown.
(5) Develop a confirmation rate by dividing
				  the sum of all confirmed investigations by the sum of all completed
				  investigations with dispositions of confirmed, unconfirmed, and inconclusive or
				  other dispositions classification used by the state agencies. Unfounded cases
				  are not included in this calculation.
(6) Calculate the average number of days to
				  complete investigations and sort by program.
(7) Calculate the number of investigations
				  referred to law enforcement.
(8)
				  Calculate the number of investigations pending at the end of the report
				  period.
(9) Calculate the number of
				  disciplinary actions resulting from confirmed findings.
(10) Calculate the number of deaths that
				  occur as a result of child abuse or neglect in the affected
				  facilities.
(11) Calculate the
				  number of appeals and the number of cases appealed that are
				  overturned.
(12) Investigations
				  with multiple allegations are to be counted once, based on the highest level of
				  injury. For example, if a single incident involves one allegation of physical
				  abuse that resulted in serious physical injury and a second allegation of
				  verbal abuse, the investigation should be counted only once, as an instance of
				  physical abuse resulting in serious physical injury. In other words, the sum of
				  completed investigations involving serious injuries, non-serious injuries,
				  verbal/emotional abuse and neglect, and exploitation should not exceed the
				  total number of cases completed.