Severe reports

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.

Suicide attempt in California

ASCEND HEALTHCARE 2 CA

Inspected October 15, 2024 Suicide attempt Hospitalisation

On 5/13/2024, Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) received an allegation that on 4/24/2024, Client ([Child 1]) was transported to the hospital following an attempted suicide by hanging with a belt (refer to LIC811, dated 10/15/2024). [...] Staff on duty brought [Child 1] down and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) until paramedics arrived. [Child 1] was resuscitated, transported to the hospital, intubated, and diagnosed with Hypoxia. [...] Based on confidential interviews, record review, and analysis of circumstances, the Department has determined that the preponderance of evidence standard has been met; therefore, the allegation that staff did not provide necessary care and supervision to [Child 1] resulting in [Child 1]'s attempted suicide by hanging with a belt while in care is substantiated.

From the state's report. Substantiated. Cited: 84078(b). "[...]" marks text left out between sentences. The state numbers or abbreviates the people in a report instead of naming them; we spell its codes out in square brackets, such as [Staff 1] for S1 or [Former client 3] for FC #3.

CA tracker: every report for this state

How a report gets on this page

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.