The most serious findings in the state inspection reports we hold: deaths, sexual and physical abuse, restraints that injured a child, suicide attempts, medical neglect and hospitalisations. Every quote below is the licensing agency's own wording, and each one was read against its report by a person before it was listed here.
On Saturday April 2, 2016, Staff Member A did not provide adequate supervision to Child #6, Child #8 and Child #9 who absconded from the program and entered the upstairs program, at approximately 11:00 PM, where they participated along with children from the upstairs program in a physical assault on Child #2 and Child #3.
From the state's report. Citation, renewal inspection, licence action taken. Cited: 55 Pa. Code § 3800.55.f.
Child #1 eloped around 8:35pm and was hit by a train shortly after, resulting in the death of Child #1.
From the state's report. Citation. Cited: 55 Pa. Code § 3800.55.a.
Child 4 eloped from the presence of his/her 7:1 staff member as the child exited the facility's vehicte following the transport to the child's school, Child 4 ran into the wooded area next to the school, The child's 1:1 staff member and 3 other staff members pursued the child. [...] Staff Member A was then removed from the restraint and separated from the child, The restraint technique utilized by Staff Member A was an Inappropriate restraint that was not within the scope of the restraint {raining that Staff Member A received on 5/30/2043.
From the state's report. Citation. Cited: 55 Pa. Code § 3800.208.b. "[...]" marks text left out between sentences.
A program reads every inspection report we collect and picks out findings that describe serious harm, using the state's own severity rating or complaint outcome where there is one. A person then reads the report and approves or rejects each one. Only findings the state substantiated are listed: a citation, or a complaint the investigator upheld. A child running away is listed only when it ended in a death or a serious injury. This page is not complete: it covers the states and reports reviewed so far, and a facility's absence here says nothing about its record. Every report we hold, flagged or not, is on the state trackers.