All Reports

The VISN 7 Director ensures that ordering providers communicate normal mammography results to patients within 14 calendar days.

The District Director determines reasons clinical quality review remediation plans did not include documentation of deficiency resolution and the time frame for resolution for the Fargo, Omaha, and Sioux Falls Vet Centers, takes indicated actions to ensure completion, and monitors compliance.

The District Director determines reasons for lack of evidence that clinical quality review deficiencies were resolved at the Columbia, Fargo, Omaha, and Sioux Falls Vet Centers, takes indicated actions to ensure completion, and monitors compliance.

The Readjustment Counseling Service Chief Officer defines “serious suicide attempt” and establishes criteria for when a morbidity and mortality review is required as well as a standardized process for completing the review.

The District Director ensures the intake portion of the psychosocial assessment is completed and monitors compliance across all zone vet centers.

The District Director ensures suicide risk assessments are completed on the first clinical visit and monitors compliance across all zone vet centers.

The District Director ensures clinical staff consult and coordinate care with the support VA medical facility for shared clients flagged as high risk for suicide and monitors compliance across all zone vet centers.

The District Director verifies clinical staff follow confidentiality requirements when consulting and coordinating care with the support VA medical facility for shared clients at high risk for suicide and monitors compliance across all zone vet centers.

The District Director ensures clinical staff complete safety plans for clients that are assessed at intermediate or high, acute or chronic, risk level as required and monitors compliance across all zone vet centers.

The District Director ensures clinical staff consult with the vet center director, external clinical consultant, associate district director for counseling, or support VA medical facility mental health provider to include the suicide prevention coordinator following a client’s suicide risk assessment as required, and monitors compliance across all zone vet centers.

The System Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures the Patient Safety Manager conducts a root cause analysis or includes the patient safety event in an aggregate review for all events assigned an actual or potential safety assessment code score of three.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures service chiefs define Focused Professional Practice Evaluation criteria in advance.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures providers with similar training and privileges complete Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that service chiefs’ determinations to continue current privileges are based on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation activities.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that the Medical Executive Committee’s decision to recommend continuation of privileges is based on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation results.

Work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to establish a data sharing agreement with VA to limit potential duplicate claim payments.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures compliance with suicide risk and lethal means safety training requirements.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates the efficacy of the May 2022 Veterans Integrated Service Network and Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention oversight structure for suicide risk training and considers inclusion of an oversight structure for lethal means safety training compliance.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates the adequacy of the one-time lethal means safety training requirement and takes action as appropriate.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures clinician completion of comprehensive suicide risk evaluations including the discussion and documentation of firearms access and safe storage as required, and monitors compliance.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates staff’s perceived barriers to completion of the suicide risk identification strategy and takes action as appropriate.

Monitor facility follow-up rates by type of care and on a month-over-month basis, establish monitoring metrics, and assist facilities if they fall below these metrics.

Evaluate and update, as appropriate, whether activities that occurred before cancellation and notations of “No Action Other Reason” should be tracked as follow-up.

Absent such relief, provide information detailing the limitations that prevent VA from reporting the average number of days that potential title 38 or hybrid title 38 hires spent in each phase of the hiring model in accordance with section 3008(a)(E)(iii) of the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2020.

Assign specific roles and responsibilities to the Office of Integrated Veteran Care to ensure effective oversight of the Referral Coordination Initiative.

Make certain that staff with Referral Coordination Initiative responsibilities are sufficiently trained on how to triage, communicate key information on options to veterans, schedule, or document consults, according to their respective duties.

Direct relevant VA medical facilities to establish local processes by which VA medical facility staff identify and share available community care wait time data with referral coordination team members within each facility, and then establish controls to help ensure that this information is consistently communicated to patients.

Establish a mechanism or update the Referral Coordination Initiative checklist to effectively track and monitor each facility’s challenges with implementation and progress toward implementing the initiative for all relevant specialty services.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, makes certain that facility surgical work groups meet monthly and core members consistently attend meetings.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that facility surgical work groups consistently review surgical deaths.