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.
Pennsylvania: 73 severe reports by kind of harm
One report can describe more than one kind of harm, so it can be counted under more than one.
- Death A child died in care or after an incident there. 5
- Sexual abuse Sexual abuse, assault or exploitation, and sexual contact by an adult. 12
- Physical abuse or assault Staff hitting, choking, kicking or otherwise assaulting a child. 42
- Restraint or seclusion causing injury Holds, restraints and seclusion that left a child hurt. 12
- Suicide attempt A child tried to end their life. 3
- Self-harm Self-harm: cutting, swallowing objects, overdoses. 6
- Medical neglect Care withheld or delayed, and repeated medication errors. 3
- Hospitalisation A child taken to the hospital or emergency room. 10
- Child missing or ran away A child who ran away or went missing and died or was badly hurt. 3
- Police involvement Police called, or a staff member arrested or charged. 2
- Every kind Every severe report in Pennsylvania, newest first. 73
Every report we hold for Pennsylvania, flagged or not, is on the PA tracker.
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.