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Quick Guide to Incident Reporting

Quick Reference Guide to Incident Reporting	Guía de Referencia Rápida Para La Notificación de Incidentes

Incident Reporting Forms and Instructions

Submit initial and follow-up incident reports (IR) to the Office of Risk Management (ORM) by uploading them through DDD UpDoc, our secure upload application. Please review the UpDoc Instructions if you are not familiar with how to use DDD Updoc.

If you are unsure which IR Unit to submit reports to, see the ORM IR unit structure in Incident Reporting Units.

Initial Report

• Initial Incident Report
• Initial Report Form Instructions
• Summary Review – Incident Reporting Levels and Categories Grid
• Choking Checklist
• Walkaway Checklist

Follow-Up Report

• UIR Follow-up Report Form (DC 14: Appendix B)
• UIR Follow-up Report Form Instructions

Mortality Follow-Up 

• Mortality Follow-Up Form
• Instructions for Completing Mortality Follow-Up Form

Incident Reporting Category Lists

• Incident Reporting Levels and Categories Grid

Office of Risk Management: Plan of Correction

• Office of Risk Management Plan of Correction Training (revised Feb. 2024)

For use by providers after a DHS Investigation has been completed:

• Plan of Correction Template and Instructions