Limited Exemption From Duty To Report For Facilities And Skilled Nursing Facilities

TITLE 39 HEALTH AND SAFETY CHAPTER 53 ADULT ABUSE, NEGLECT AND EXPLOITATION ACT 39-5303A. limited Exemption from duty to report for facilities and skilled nursing facilities. (1) The requirements set forth in section 39-5303 , Idaho Code, pertaining to the reporting of vulnerable adult maltreatment to the commission or the department shall not apply to situations involving resident-to-resident contact within facilities or skilled nursing facilities that serve vulnerable adults, except in those cases involving sexual abuse, death, or serious physical injury that jeopardizes the life, health, or safety of a vulnerable adult or repeated resident-to-resident physical or verbal altercations, not resulting in observable physical or mental injury, but constituting an ongoing pattern of resident behavior that a facility’s staff are unable to remedy through reasonable efforts. (2)  This exemption applies only to reports involving resident-to-resident abuse that are to be directed to the commission or the department pursuant to section 39-5303 , Idaho Code. This exemption shall not limit any other reporting obligation or requirement whether statutory or otherwise.