Community Grievance Decision Digest

Please visit the webpage: Introduction to the Community Grievance Decision Digest, as it has additional information concerning the CGDD and its content arranged in a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) format.

The list of topics below will direct you to web pages with the applicable laws on that topic.

The decision summaries that were made at Level III and Level IV of the DHS 94 grievance procedure have been collected into the document Community Grievance Decision Digest: Decisions. (PDF, 512KB) Each page will have a link to this document for you to view or print.

 Community Grievance Decision Digest List of Topics
Please scroll down the page to see the entire list.

• Abuse, Freedom from
• Aesthetics, Hygiene and Sanitation
• Arbitrary Decisions, Right to be Free From
• Assistance in the Exercise of Rights
• Businesses, Patient-Run
• Civil Rights
• Client Choices, Respecting
• Client Rights Limitation or Denial Documentation (CRLD) Process
• Clothing and Laundry
• Confidentiality: see  Records, Confidentiality of Treatment
• Conflicts Between Patients
• Consent - Must Be Informed
• Cost of Care, Right to Be Informed Of
• Dayroom Activities - TV, Radio, Etc.
• Dignity and Respect
• Discharge of Voluntary Patients
• Discrimination, Right to be Free From
• Documentation Requirements
• Drastic Treatment Procedures, Right to Refuse
• Drug Testing
• Due Process of Law
• Equal Protection of the Law
• Exercise and Recreation
• Filming or Taping - Consent Required
• Food, Meals and Diets
• Funds and Indigence

Grievance Procedure:
The following documents refer to definitions and decisions concerning aspects of the Grievance Procedure:

• Access to Grievance Procedure
• Burden of Proof
• Credibility of Witnesses
• Evidence
• Grievability
• Mootness
• Procedural Issues
• Resolutions and Remedies
• Retaliation for Use of Grievance Procedure Prohibited

• Grievances, Right to File
• Guardianship
• Humane Environment
• Informed of Rights, Right to Be
• Least Restrictive Conditions Necessary, Right To
• Legal System, Courts and Petitions for Review - Access To
• Liberty / Level Issues
• Mail, Legal
• Mail, Personal
• Management of Facilities
• Medications, Free from Unnecessary or Excessive
• Medications - Refusal on Religious Grounds
• Notification of Rights
• Outpatient Treatment Termination
• Patient Defined (To Whom Patient Rights Apply)
• Petition for Review of Commitment, Right to
• Physical Health Treatment
• Possessions, Limits on
• Possessions, Lost or Damaged
• Privacy in Toileting and Bathing
• Privacy - Other
• Records, Access by Patients
• Records, Confidentiality of Treatment
• Records, Correction of Information in
• Refusing Medications and Treatment - Consent Required
• Religious Worship, Right To
• Research, Experimental - Consent Required
• Restraint and Seclusion, Right to be Free From
• Risk Reductions Measures
• Rules and Sanctions
• Safety, Right To
• Searches of Person and Possessions
• Security Measures
• Sexual Harassment, Right to be Free From
• Sleep Issues
• Smoking / Non-Smoking Issues
• Social Contacts, Right To
• Staff/Patient Conflicts
• Storage Space, Right To
• Telephone Calls, Right to Make and Receive
• Toilets and Grooming, Access To
• Transfers
• Treatment, Evaluation and Monitoring Of
• Treatment Participation
• Treatment, Right to Prompt and Adequate
• Treatment - Second Opinions, Right To
• Treatment - Security Issues
• Visitors, Right to Receive
• Wages for Work and Patient Work Programs
• Waiver of Rights Prohibited

Last Updated: July 12, 2010