DSL INFO MEMO 2002
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December 13, 2002
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Department of Health and Family Services
Division of Supportive Living
To:
Area Administrators / Assistant Area Administrators
Bureau Directors/Section Chiefs
Certified AODA Treatment Facilities / Programs
Certified Mental Health Inpatient Facilities
Certified Mental Health Outpatient Facilities / Programs
Certified Mental Health Outpatient Clinics
Community Based Residential Facilities
Community Support Programs
County Departments of Community Programs Directors
County Departments of Human Services Directors
County Departments of Social Services Directors
County Departments of Developmental Disability Services Directors
Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled
Tribal Chairpersons / Human Services Facilitators
Wisconsin Hospitals
Wisconsin Nursing Homes
From:
Sinikka McCabe, Administrator
Re: 2001 Annual Death Report
Attached is the Division of Supportive Living’s (DSL) 2001 Annual
report of the reportable deaths reviewed under ss. 48.60(5)(a), 50.035(5)
and 51.64, Wis. Stats., (created by 1989 Wisconsin Act 336). DSL has the
statutory responsibility to investigate the circumstances of a death of a
person served by a variety of institutional, residential and
community-based treatment programs overseen by DSL when there is
reasonable cause to believe that the death resulted from the use of a
physical restraint or seclusion, a psychotropic medication, or is a
suicide.
For more information about deaths of Wisconsin residents you may access
the "Wisconsin Deaths, 2001" report published by the Division of
Health Care Financing, Bureau of Health Information at the following Web
address; http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/deaths/index.htm.
For more information about the attached Annual Death Report, the death
reporting procedures or reporting form, please contact the Central Office
Facilitator, Paul Yochum.
CENTRAL OFFICE CONTACT:
Paul Yochum
Bureau of Quality Assurance
1 West Wilson Street
Madison, WI 53707-7851
(608) 261-8899 (voice)
Yochupa@DHS
.state.us
Attachment:
Death Reporting
and Investigation Summary of 2001 (pdf-36kb)
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Alcohol and Drug Abuse Coordinators
Consumer Organizations
Mental Health Coordinators
NAMI of Wisconsin and Local Affiliates
State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy
Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities
Wisconsin Council on Mental Health
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