An Incident Report refers to any number of reports that may include injury or illness of personnel, administrative office critical events, disaster/catastrophe/emergency events, and consumer care based incidents.
An Incident Report related to direct care of individuals supported is referred to a General Event Report (GER) throughout our policy, and reported through the Missouri Department of Mental Health system.
When a GER needs be filled out, the employee involved needs to notify immediate supervisor immediately. For direct care incidents, Support Coordinator needs to notify the Program Manager, Case Manager, and guardian of the incident. GERs are completed and submitted via Therap GER system, refer to Therap GER Procedure for details.
The following is a list of incidents that require a General Event Report Form to be filled out, but not limited to:
- Accident
- Behavioral Incident
- Choking
- Destruction of staff property
- Elopement / Wandering
- ER Trip
- Failure to follow behavior plan
- Fall
- Fire
- Found on Floor
- Biohazards
- Misuse of Funds
- Illness to include Communicable Disease and Infection Control
- Ingestion of non-food items
- Injury to Consumer- Unknown Origin
- Med Error
- Notification of death in community
- Abuse
- Neglect
- Aggression, Violence, or threatening behavior
- Use and unauthorized possession of weapons
- Property Damage
- Restraint
- Rights Violation
- Self-Harm
- Sexual Misconduct/Sexual Assault
- Suicide Attempt
- Supervision Level Not Followed
- Theft
- Threat/Harm
- Vehicular Accident
- Verbal Abuse
- Or anything out of the ordinary for the consumer
- Other sentinel events