Quick Guide to Incident Reporting
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.pdf 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.pdf.
- Initial Report: Initial Incident Report.docx and Initial Report Form Instructions.pdf
- Follow-Up Report: UIR Follow-up Report Form.docx (DC 14: Appendix B) and UIR Follow-up Report Form Instructions.doc
- Mortality Follow-Up: Mortality Follow-Up Form.docx and Instructions for Completing Mortality Follow-Up Form.pdf
- Incident Levels and Categories: Incident Reporting Levels and Categories Grid.pdf
- Plan of Correction Training: Office of Risk Management Plan of Correction Training.pdf (revised Feb. 2024)
- Plan of Correction Template: Plan of Correction Template and Instructions.docx (for use by providers after a DHS Investigation has been completed)
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