A disturbing story in the Dallas Morning News gives details from a state audit finding that Texas has hired caregivers who should have been ineligible due to past records of abuse. Here are excerpts:
The state
institutions for people with disabilities are failing to find
community-based homes for many patients who want them, and have hired
10 state school employees who should’ve been ineligible because of
previous abuse and neglect records, according to a state audit released
today.While the Department of Aging and Disability
Services has gotten better about listening to patients who want to move
from state schools into the community, the report indicates 70 percent
of patients who asked to leave the state schools in fiscal year 2007
weren’t granted their wish.The audit also found 10 state school
workers listed in the state employee misconduct registry – meaning they
had abuse or neglect records that should have made them ineligible for
hire. The Dallas Morning News first identified several of these employees in May.And though the agency investigates the overwhelming majority of high
priority abuse and neglect incidents within one day, as required by
law, they’re not so timely with “level two” complaints. Over the last
two years, only 41 percent of those were investigated within the
required two-week time frame.
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