is suspected, and the outcome. Reporting Critical Incidents Standard 7 Incident Reporting: It is policy to ensure that all people receiving Documentation DDA’s All people supported services as part of the DDA service delivery system are Incident reports are by DDA will be protected from neglect, harm, and abuse. never part of the monitored for neglect, medical record. harm or abuse and all It is essential for providers to implement and maintain an suspected incidents incident management system, and report critical incidents to Incident reports are reported to DDA’s DDA. to be filed with Incident Management DDA via MCIS. Enforcement Unit. There are two types of reportable incidents: Follow agency Applies to: procedures when Reportable Incident is an event or situation (“RI”): An RI All employees of filing copies of involving a risk, threat or actual event that impacts a DDA, all individual incident reports health or safety that includes, but is not limited person’s agencies that provide within an agency. to: services to people with Emergency relocation intellectual disabilities Emergency room or urgent care visit through funding, Emergency unauthorized use of restrictive contract, or provider controls (that are in a category typically approved agreement with DC by DDS, but that have not been approved for use Government. with this person) Fire Inappropriate use of approved restraints (no injury) Incidents involving the police Medication error Physical injury Property destruction Suicide threat Vehicle accident Other Serious Reportable Incident An SRI is an RI (“SRI”): that due to its significance, severity, or repeated instance within a period of time, requires immediate response and notification to DDS/DDA. SRIs include, but are not limited to: Abuse Death Exploitation Inappropriate use of approved restraints that results in injury
is suspected, and the outcome. Standard 7 Incident Reporting: All people supported by DDA will be monitored for neglect, harm or abuse and all suspected incidents reported to DDA’s Incident Management Enforcement Unit. Applies to: All employees of DDA, all individual agencies that provide services to people with intellectual disabilities through funding, contract, or provider agreement with DC Government. Reporting Critical Incidents It is DDA’s policy to ensure that all people receiving services as part of the DDA service delivery system are protected from neglect, harm, and abuse. It is essential for providers to implement and maintain an incident management system, and report critical incidents to DDA. There are two types of reportable incidents: Reportable Incident (“RI”): An RI is an event or situation involving a risk, threat or actual event that impacts a person’s health or safety that includes, but is not limited to: Emergency relocation Emergency room or urgent care visit Emergency unauthorized use of restrictive controls (that are in a category typically approved by DDS, but that have not been approved for use with this person) Fire Inappropriate use of approved restraints (no injury) Incidents involving the police Medication error Physical injury Property destruction Suicide threat Vehicle accident Other Serious Reportable Incident (“SRI”): An SRI is an RI that due to its significance, severity, or repeated instance within a period of time, requires immediate response and notification to DDS/DDA. SRIs include, but are not limited to: Abuse Death Exploitation Inappropriate use of approved restraints that results in injury Documentation Incident reports are never part of the medical record. Incident reports are to be filed with DDA via MCIS. Follow agency procedures when filing copies of incident reports within an agency.
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