Keeping Clients and Employees Safe by Making Incident Reporting Intuitive and Intelligent
Spanning 45 locations, Integral Care’s 900 employees serve nearly 30,000 adults and children living with mental illness, substance use disorder, and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities. For Melody Moscal, Integral Care’s Quality Experience Administrator, keeping clients and staff safe is the top priority. She depends on timely, complete, and trackable incident reporting to stay informed on trends in order implement necessary risk-minimizing practices.
The previous incident reporting tool Moscal and her team had been using, however, was hindering the team’s efforts. They were inundated with support calls and data management issues as their staff of 900 occasionally forgot their tool-specific password, lost and then duplicated reports due to the tool timing out without saving the in-progress report, and struggled with the tool’s confusing user interface. Plus, Moscal and her team lacked the ability to review the incidents, gain insight into pertinent activity, or track the required next steps.
“We have dedicated staff dealing with very big challenges. My team’s job is to do all we can to keep our staff and their clients safe by ensuring continuous quality improvement,” shares Moscal. “We needed to find an incident-reporting solution that supported our efforts.”
Designing a Highly Configurable Solution Around Integral Care’s Needs
After extensive research, the Integral Care team selected CIP Reporting’s incident-reporting solution, as CIP Reporting offered a much-improved user experience and provided the Quality Experience team the necessary data and insights, including:
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Single Sign-On
Eliminating the need for employees to remember a separate password. -
Auto Save
Ensuring that data is not lost midway through documentation. -
Permissions and Controls
Protecting the confidentiality of those served.
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Search
Making it easy for staff to find reports that need to be completed or reviewed. -
Configurability
Enabling the system to mirror integral care’s processes and workflows. -
Built-In, Tracked Workflow
Guaranteeing that incidents are escalated to the right people and all activity is documented. -
Tracking and Reporting
Empowering the team to quickly and easily view, track, and trend data.
explains Moscal.
Keeping People Safe Thanks to Data Insights
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Drive Data-Informed Decision Making
Integral Care has established a special management committee that meets regularly to review and analyze all incidents, uncover insights, and determine appropriate actions, if required — something that wasn’t possible before CIP Reporting. -
Improve Staff Satisfaction and Reduce the Number of Support Calls
Based upon data from CIP Reporting, Integral Care can identify incident trends and implement the necessary programs and training to address them. For instance, Safety Care, a program that educates staff on how to deescalate a situation while in the client’s home, was developed in response to insights provided by CIP Reporting.
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Deliver On-Demand Reporting
When any internal or external data request is made, Moscal and her team can quickly and easily respond with professional-looking, real-time reports. -
Identify the Need for Additional Safety Measures
Based upon data from CIP Reporting, Integral Care can identify incident trends and implement the necessary programs and training to address them. For instance, Safety Care, a program that educates staff on how to deescalate a situation while in the client’s home, was developed in response to insights provided by CIP Reporting.
explains Moscal.
Founded in 1967 and located in in Travis County, Texas, Integral Care supports adults and children living with mental illness, substance use disorder, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. With more than 45 locations, its services include a 24-hour helpline for anyone who needs immediate support, ongoing counseling to improve mental health, drug and alcohol treatment to help with recovery, and housing to regain health and independence. Integral Care has an annual operating budget of $101M that is used to serve more than 28,000 Travis County residents each year.