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Risk Management Incident Reporting
An incident is an unanticipated occurrence, accident, or event that has the
potential to result in injury, has caused injury, or is not consistent with the
healthcare operation or an event not consistent with the routine care of a patient
or routine processes of the entity whether or not injury occurred.
Each Baptist Health employee has the legal duty to report incidents
to Risk Management within three (3) business days of becoming
aware of such incidents. Incidents should be promptly reported using
the online incident reporting system.
The employee discovering the incident is responsible for the
completion of the online incident report. There should be no written
reference of the incident report made in the patient's medical record.
