Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 8. CARE AND PROTECTION OF INDIGENT AND ELDERLY PATIENTS · Article 3. LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM

31-8-57. Reporting abuse.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Any person who has reasonable cause to believe that a resident of a long-term care facility is being, or has been, abused, neglected, exploited, or abandoned or is in a condition which is the result of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or abandonment may report such information or cause a report to be made in any reasonable manner to the state ombudsman or community ombudsman, if any.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1933, § 88-1909a, enacted by Ga. L. 1979, p. 1240, § 1.

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