How to Submit Your Annual Risk Management Report Online

The State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration, administers serious patient injury reporting, tracking, trending and problem resolution programs in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, as authorized in Chapter 395.0197 F.S. The law also requires that licensed health care risk managers implement programs prescribed by statute to accomplish these processes, which include continuing quality assessment and improvement and assuring greater patient safety in each of these facilities. The main thrust of the programs is identifying incidents occurring in health care facilities, which have an outcome of patient injury and may reflect error in the course of the delivery of health care services. However, Chapter 395 F.S. only requires reporting these incidents to the Agency by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers at this time. They must also report any injuries of which they are aware occurring through any health care service, which would include nursing homes, home health organizations, doctors' offices, dentists' offices, or any other purveyor of health care service. Additionally, Chapter 641.55 requires similar reporting of patient injury incidents by HMOs. The patient injury incidents are reported through two different types of reporting mechanisms:

Facility Annual Report must reflect all adverse incidents according to statutory definition which occur in the facility during the course of a calendar year and is due to the Agency, Risk Management & Patient Safety Program after the first of each year for the previous year.

Code 15 Report reports in detail and analyzes each serious patient injury, as defined by statute, and is due to the Agency, Risk Management & Patient Safety Program within 15 days from the time of the occurrence of the injury.

Articles

• View articles of interest and statistical reports.

Licensure

• Health Care Risk Manager Licensure - Search for Licensed Health Care Risk Managers and contact Licensing Program staff.

Reporting

• Submit Code 15 and Annual Reports - On-line reporting for Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgical Centers.
• Report Forms - Internet Access Request/New User Application and other related reports, forms and information.

Statutes

• Statutory Authority - View Florida Statutes and Florida Administrative Code for the Agency for Health Care Administration, Hospital and Outpatient Services Unit regarding risk management programs.

Agency Annual and Quarterly Risk Management Report

• The Agency publishes an annual report summarizing information contained in the annual incident reports as well as malpractice claims information reported to the Agency. View the Annual Report.
• The Agency publishes quarterly reports containing a summary and trends of adverse incidents received. View the Quarterly Reports.

Contacts

• Risk Management Staff [205kb .pdf] - For assistance with risk management issues, the office staff is available for consultation.

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Updated January 28, 2012