Each consumer admitted to a facility for evaluation, treatment or training has rights (pursuant to NRS 433.456 to 433.536) that can only be denied to protect the consumer’s health and safety or to protect the health and safety of others, or both. Any time this occurs, the Administrator of the Facility must be noticed and a full report must be made to the NV Commission on Behavioral Health.

A Long Term Care (LTC) facility shall ensure that all crimes or alleged violations involving abuse, neglect, exploitation or mistreatment, including injuries of unknown source and misappropriation of resident property, are reported immediately, but not later than 2 hours after the allegation is made, if the events that cause the allegation involve abuse or result in serious bodily injury, or not later than 24 hours if the events that cause the allegation do not involve abuse and do not result in serious bodily injury, to the administrator of the facility and to other officials (including to the State Survey Agency and adult protective services where state law provides for jurisdiction in long-term care facilities). Each covered individual shall also report immediately, but not later than 2 hours after forming suspicion, if the events that cause the suspicion result in serious bodily injury, or not later than 24 hours if the events that cause the suspicion do not result in serious bodily injury. Additionally, these violations or alleged violations must be investigated and the results of the investigation must be reported to the Bureau within 5 days.

Facilities must report patient death or serious injury associated with the use of physical restraints or bedrails while being cared for in a healthcare setting. Intended to capture instances where physical restraints are implicated in the death, e.g., lead to strangulation/entrapment, etc.

Hospitals must report deaths associated with the use of seclusion or restraint.