On July 20, IHCA alerted members that the Indiana Attorney General has recently opened around 100, or more, investigations of licensed practitioners in nursing facilities (mainly RNs and LPNs) in the past couple of weeks. These investigations have apparently been generated by the ISDH’s sending of incident reports to the AG along with a signed letter from the ISDH referring the incident report as a consumer complaint for AG investigation. It is IHCA’s understanding that ISDH’s sending of these uninvestigated or investigated but unsubstantiated incidents/complaints has been occurring for a long time, however only in the last several weeks have those incident referrals been accompanied by a signed letter from ISDH referring the matter to the AG. It is this signed letter with referral that had triggered the AG investigations.
Based on recent discussions with the ISDH, the referrals that were sent in error are being retracted by the AG in cooperation with the ISDH staff. The ISDH indicated that the AG will send closure letters to the affected professionals that had been referred to the AG by the ISDH in error.
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