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OCRS Resource Center

7 published resources for facilities, organizations, state agencies and procurement reviewers. 8 further resources are listed as in development so you can see exactly what does and does not exist today.

Showing 15 of 15 resources.

Getting started

What OCRS does, how access is requested, and what a new organization sets up first.

Published

Getting started with OCRS

How the State → Organization → Facility hierarchy works, what happens after access is approved, and the first four things a new organization sets up.

Resource type
Guide
Audience
New users, Organization administrators
Length
8 min read

Facility operations

Day-to-day work inside a licensed facility: bed status, census entry, corrections.

Published

Using the live bed board

Reading current bed status for a facility, what each status means, how blocked beds affect available capacity, and how stale figures are flagged.

Resource type
Guide
Audience
Facility reporters, Facility managers
Length
6 min read
Published

Submitting the daily census

The required fields, how capacity is validated against the licensed bed count, why submissions are permanent, and how to file a correction.

Resource type
Guide
Audience
Facility reporters, Facility managers
Length
7 min read
In development

Waitlist management

How referrals waiting for a bed are recorded and matched to availability as beds are released.

Resource type
Guide
Audience
Facility managers
In development

Admissions and discharges

Recording an admission or a discharge and the effect each has on reported occupancy for the day.

Resource type
Guide
Audience
Facility reporters, Facility managers

Reporting

Submission workflow, validation, automated recurring reports and state bed extracts.

Published

Reading reporting history

How to read a facility's submission timeline, tell a correction apart from an original entry, and use history as evidence during a review.

Resource type
Guide
Audience
Facility managers, Organization administrators, Auditors
Length
5 min read
Published

Automated reporting and delivery

The recurring reporting schedule, what triggers an immediate report, how delivery is logged, and how repeated runs are kept idempotent.

Resource type
Documentation
Audience
Organization administrators, State administrators
Length
7 min read
In development

Data exports and file formats

Field-by-field reference for occupancy exports and the state bed extract file layout.

Resource type
Documentation
Audience
Organization administrators, State administrators
In development

Submission validation reference

Every validation rule applied to a census submission and the message it produces.

Resource type
Documentation
Audience
Facility managers, Organization administrators

Administration

Users, roles, scope, facility and organization records, and audit history.

Published

Roles, permissions and scope

Every OCRS role, what it can read and write, how scope limits it to a jurisdiction, organization or facility, and how isolation is enforced.

Resource type
Documentation
Audience
Organization administrators, State administrators, Security reviewers
Length
9 min read

Training

Role-based courses that take a new user from first sign-in to confident daily use.

Published

State administrator operations

Course for state oversight staff: jurisdiction dashboards, occupancy and availability rollups, coverage gaps, bed extracts and the limits of read-only oversight.

Resource type
Training course
Audience
State administrators, Government evaluators
Length
45 min course
In development

Facility reporter training

Short course for staff whose only task is submitting an accurate census on time.

Resource type
Training course
Audience
Facility reporters
In development

Facility administrator training

Bed configuration, reporting oversight and history review for a single facility.

Resource type
Training course
Audience
Facility managers
In development

Organization / provider administrator training

User management, facility administration and multi-facility rollups.

Resource type
Training course
Audience
Organization administrators, Provider administrators

Technical & procurement

Public references for security, privacy, accessibility and evaluation reviewers.

In development

Integration overview

How an external system will be able to read published capacity data once the OCRS API is released.

Resource type
Documentation
Audience
Technical evaluators, Procurement reviewers

Public references for evaluators

Published material for procurement, security and accessibility review. Internal implementation and infrastructure documentation is not published here.

Security & trust

Access control, tenant isolation, audit history and the safeguards OCRS applies to reported data.

Security & trust

Privacy

What OCRS stores, who can read it, and how long records are retained.

Privacy policy

Accessibility

The accessibility standard OCRS is built against and the current conformance position.

Accessibility statement

Workflow overview

How a census travels from a facility to organization rollups and state oversight.

Workflow overview

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Library status
7 published resources
8 in development

A resource is only listed as published once its content exists at its own address.