Violations of Professional and Personal Boundaries

Violations of professional and personal boundaries include the following:

Sexual Contact or Solicitation of staff members with customers or persons served;
Acceptance of gifts or hospitality from customers or persons served with expectation of preferential treatment;
Inappropriate personal disclosure;
Inappropriate physical touch or physical contact;
Concealing relevant or important information from a treatment team about persons served;
Misuse of money or property by staff in connection with customers or persons served;
Inappropriate relationships by staff members with customers or persons served that are unprofessional;
Personal relationships developed outside of the work environment by staff members with customers or persons served;
Failing to adhere to the treatment plan for a patient developed and approved by the treatment team.

For additional information about violation of professional and personal boundaries incidents, you may consult the Violations of Professional and Personal Boundaries SOP.

Unless the supervisor or program manager/director is involved in the incident being reported, the reporter should go through the chain of command to initially report an incident.
A Sentinel Event Form (click on this link) should be completed and sent via email within 24 hours to the Vice President of Human Resources at hr@libertyhealth.com. or the Liberty Compliance Officer/Privacy Officer John Beck at corporatecompliance@libertyhealth.com