Indiana Administrative Code
Title 410 - INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Article 29 - REPORTING, MONITORING, AND PREVENTIVE PROCEDURES FOR AN ELEVATED BLOOD LEAD LEVEL
Rule 2 - Case Management and Testing
Section 2-2 - Case closure
Universal Citation: 410 IN Admin Code 2-2
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 16-41-39.4-1
Affected: IC 16-41-39.4
Sec. 2.
The department or local health officer may close cases under either of the following conditions:
(1) A case may be designated "case complete" if:
(A) referrals have been made to
individuals and agencies for long term developmental, environmental, and
medical follow-up; and
(B) the
child has two (2) consecutive confirmed blood lead tests at least sixty (60)
days apart for which the blood lead level is less than five (5) µ/dL, and
environmental lead hazards have been remediated and passed a clearance
test.
(2) A case may be designated "administratively closed" for any of the following reasons:
(A) The child moves to another state or
territory of the United States and a case referral has been made to the
appropriate state elevated blood lead level prevention program. This referral
must be made not later than ten (10) working days after the case manager learns
of the move, and the department shall keep the case open until the case is
confirmed as received by the state to which it has been transferred.
(B) The child moves to another county in
Indiana and a case referral has been made to the appropriate local health
department. This referral must be made not later than ten (10) working days
after the case manager learns of the move, and the department shall keep the
case open until the case is confirmed as received by the local health
department to which it has been transferred.
(C) The child reaches seven (7) years of age
and referrals have been made to individuals and agencies for long term
developmental, environmental, and medical follow-up.
(D) The child can no longer be located or
contacted and five (5) attempts have been made to contact the child during a
twenty-six (26) week closure window according to the following action periods:
(i) At least one (1) telephone call to the
parent or guardian after the first four (4) weeks of the twenty-six (26) week
closure window.
(ii) At least one
(1) letter to the parent or guardian between nine (9) and thirteen (13) weeks
into the twenty-six (26) week closure window.
(iii) At least one (1) certified letter to
the parent or guardian between thirteen (13) and twenty-one (21) weeks into the
twenty-six (26) week closure window.
(iv) At least one (1) attempted home visit to
the child's last known address after twenty-four (24) weeks into the twenty-six
(26) week closure window.
Actions completed later than the action period shall be recorded against the twenty-six (26) week closure window in the week in which they were performed.
(E) Case management is blocked for religious
or other legally recognized reasons, and documentation of these reasons is on
file.
(F) The death of the
child.
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