All Reports

Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York
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17-01762-88

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Medicine Service clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data every 6 months and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures quality assurance data for the anticoagulation management program are collected, analyzed, and reported quarterly at Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee meetings and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently provide specific education to patients with newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and refer patients prescribed direct-acting oral anticoagulants to the anticoagulation clinic and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Chief of Staff requires that clinical managers include in the competency assessments of employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program knowledge of standard terminology, pharmacology of anticoagulants, monitoring requirements, dose calculation, common side effects, nutrient interactions associated with anticoagulation therapy, and drug to drug interactions associated with anticoagulation therapy, and the Chief of Staff monitors clinical managers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures inter-facility patient transfer data are analyzed and reported and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers consistently complete VA Forms 10-2649A and 10-2649B as required by Veterans Integrated Service Network policy and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers communicate with or send to the accepting facility pertinent patient information, and the Chief of Staff monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Associate Director for Facilities and Human Resources ensures the VA Police Service consistently participates on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Associate Director for Facilities and Human Resources ensures locked mental health unit panic alarm testing documentation includes VA Police Service response time and monitors compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that a risk assessment is completed when a locked mental health unit patient is using an electrical or mechanical hospital bed and that the room containing the bed is locked when not in use, and the Associate Director for Patient Care Services monitors compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Facility Director ensures all members of the Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team complete the required training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and the Facility Director monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/1/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that the use of reversal agents in moderate sedation cases and the presence or absence of adverse events for all areas administering moderate sedation are reported to and trended by the Surgical, Procedural, Operative, and Therapeutic Committee and monitors compliance.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/6/2020
The Chief of Staff ensures providers include a review of abnormalities of major organ systems; an airway assessment; and a review of alcohol, tobacco, or substance use or abuse in the history and physical exams and/or pre-sedation assessments and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/1/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures providers notify patients of changes in who is performing the moderate sedation procedure and document this in the electronic health record and monitors providers’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas
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17-01748-82

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Facility Director ensures revision of local policy to specify the Quality and Performance Council as the senior-level committee responsible for key quality, safety, and value functions and co-chairs this committee.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors physician advisors’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that anticoagulation management program quality assurance data are collected, analyzed, and reported quarterly at the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and monitors program managers’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers include anticoagulation-specific elements in competency assessments for employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/5/2018
The Facility Director ensures inter-facility patient transfer data are collected, reported, and analyzed as part of the facility’s quality management program and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures transfer notes written by acceptable designees include a staff/attending physician countersignature and monitors acceptable designees’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members consistently participate in environment of care rounds and monitors team members’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Associate Director ensures that VA Police perform and document system-wide panic alarm testing at the Salina community based outpatient clinic and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures providers include an airway assessment in the history and physical examination and/or pre-sedation assessment and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians perform post-procedure assessments of patient pain level and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Facility Director ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee continues to meet at least quarterly and monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Facility Director ensures that the community nursing home program is integrated into the facility quality improvement program.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Review Team completes required annual reviews and monitors the team’s compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff and Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensure social workers and registered nurses conduct and document cyclical clinical visits with the frequency required by Veterans Health Administration policy for community nursing home oversight and monitor social workers’ and registered nurses’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System, Montgomery, Alabama
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17-01851-72

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/1/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data every 6 months and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers consistently include patient or surrogate informed consent, medical and/or behavioral stability, and identification of transferring and receiving provider or designee in transfer documentation and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/21/2019
The Associate Director ensures the team members responsible for comprehensive EOC rounds consistently participate and use the Comprehensive Environment of Care Assessment and Compliance Tool to document results of those rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Associate Director ensures Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members receive annual training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers perform suicide risk assessments for all patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers offer further diagnostic evaluations to patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that providers complete diagnostic evaluations for patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens within 30 days of the referral and monitors providers’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the West Texas VA Health Care System, Big Spring, Texas
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17-01742-90

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently provide patient education specific for newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently obtain all required laboratory tests prior to initiating warfarin and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for emergent transfers, provider transfer notes document patient stability for transfer and provision of all medical care within the facility’s capacity and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/4/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers document sending or communicating to the accepting facility pertinent patient information and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program employees document details of the observations and deficiencies identified during monthly self-inspections, submit work orders for all items needing repair, and document corrective actions taken, and the Chief of Staff monitors employees’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program employees consistently conduct and document weekly contraband inspections and monitors employees’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Associate Director ensures that Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program managers ensure that all doors not considered as the main point of entry have audible alarms and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/25/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers perform and document suicide risk assessments for all patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/10/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers offer further diagnostic evaluations to patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and refer them and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers complete diagnostic evaluations within 30 days for patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that resident physicians are assigned and granted the correct user class computer option and that clinical managers review and monitor residents’ progress notes to ensure that resident supervision documentation meets requirements, and the Chief of Staff monitors managers’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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17-01855-81

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/23/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members participate on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/1/2018
The Associate Director ensures a safe respiratory environment for patients and employees in the Community Living Center units and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/23/2018
The Chief of Staff and Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensure social workers and registered nurses conduct cyclical clinical visits with the required frequency and monitor compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Alexandria VA Health Care System, Pineville, Louisiana
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17-01853-89

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/17/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data at least every 6 months and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently provide specific education to patients with newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 3
Closed and Implemented Recommendation Image, Checkmark
to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/11/2019
The Associate Director ensures required team members consistently participate on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/11/2019
The Associate Director ensures that facility managers maintain a safe and clean environment in all patient care areas and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Associate Director ensures locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members complete the required training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee includes consistent representation by the medical staff and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures social workers and registered nurses conduct alternating, cyclical clinical visits with the required frequency and monitors their compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/11/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures acceptable providers perform and document suicide risk assessments for all patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers offer further diagnostic evaluations to patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
Review of Alleged Funding Security Issues of the Veterans Services Adaptable Network at VA Medical Center Orlando, FL
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15-03059-384

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA),Information and Technology (OIT)
Closure Date: 1/31/2018
The OIG recommended the executive in charge for the Office of the Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with the executive in charge for the Office of Information and Technology, ensure that all guest internet access networks, external air gapped networks, and industrial control systems are appropriately segregated from VA networks and meet the department’s information security requirements.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Huntington VA Medical Center, Huntington, West Virginia
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17-01760-85

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/31/2018
The Facility Director requires the Quality, Safety, and Value Council to document meeting minutes that include evidence of the review and analysis of aggregated data, identification of opportunities for improvement, implementation of corrective actions, and evaluation of effectiveness of the actions and monitors the Quality, Safety, and Value Council’s compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/30/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, sending nurses document transfer assessments/notes and monitors the nurses’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers communicate with or send to the accepting facility pertinent patient information and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/30/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members consistently participate on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Associate Director ensures access to sterile supplies at the Gallipolis community based outpatient clinic is restricted and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Associate Director ensures medical (biohazardous) waste stored for pick-up at the Gallipolis community based outpatient clinic is secured and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee includes a representative from acquisitions.
Combined Assessment Program Summary Report— Management of Disruptive and Violent Behavior in Veterans Health Administration Facilities
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17-04460-84

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/28/2020
OIG recommended that the Executive in Charge, Office of the Under Secretary forHealth, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network senior managers, ensure Facility Directors establish Employee Threat Assessment Teams.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/28/2020
OIG recommended that the Executive in Charge, Office of the Under Secretary forHealth, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network senior managers, ensure facility senior managers require attendance by VA Police Officers, Patient Safety and/or Risk Management Officials, and Patient Advocates at Disruptive Behavior Committee/Board meetings and monitor compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/17/2019
OIG recommended that the Executive in Charge, Office of the Under Secretary forHealth, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network and facility senior managers, ensure that when Chiefs of Staff (or designees) issue Orders for Behavioral Restriction, they document that they informed patients that the Orders were issued and of the right to appeal the decisions and that facility senior managers monitor compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/28/2020
OIG recommended that the Executive in Charge, Office of the Under Secretary forHealth, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network senior managers, ensure facility senior managers require that within 90 days of hire, all employees complete Level I Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior training and additional training levels based on the type and severity of risk for exposure to disruptive and unsafe behaviors and monitor compliance.
Healthcare Inspection – Primary Care Provider’s Clinical Practice Deficiencies and Security Concerns, Fort Benning VA Clinic, Fort Benning, Georgia
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16-03405-80

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/2/2018
We recommended that the Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensure that the System Director evaluates the care of the subject patient (Patient 1) and consults with the Office of General Counsel for disclosure to the patient, if appropriate.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/11/2018
We recommended that the Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensure that the System Director consults with the Office of Human Resources and the Office of General Counsel to determine the appropriate administrative action(s), if any, for Primary Care Provider X and Primary Care Provider X’s supervisors.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/2/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that providers notify patients of test values and follow up on clinical laboratory results as required.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that providers accurately document patients’ assessment, diagnosis, and treatment information into the electronic health record.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/28/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that consults for VHA and non-VA care are entered and completed within time frames set by Veterans Health Administration.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/2/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that employees receive training appropriate for the assigned Workplace Behavioral Risk Assessment risk level.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that Clinic employees are trained in emergency management procedures.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/28/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that emergency procedures and contact information are posted and readily available to Clinic employees.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Grand Junction Veterans Health Care System, Grand Junction, Colorado
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17-01744-69

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors the advisors’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2018
The Facility Director ensures the Patient Safety Manager consistently provides feedback to employees or departments who submit close call and adverse event reports that result in a root cause analysis and monitors the manager’s compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/4/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures anticoagulation program managers establish a defined process for anticoagulation-related calls outside normal business hours and monitors compliance with the process.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee reviews anticoagulation data quarterly and monitors the committee’s compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2018
The Facility Director ensures inter-facility patient transfer data are reported to a quality oversight committee and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, clinicians consistently include in transfer documentation patient or surrogate informed consent and monitors the clinicians’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, clinicians consistently document sending or communicating pertinent patient information to the receiving facility and monitors the clinicians’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/29/2018
The Associate Director ensures core team members consistently attend environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2018
The Associate Director ensures all locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members complete the required training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors employees’ and team members’ compliance.
Audit of VHA's Use of Appropriations to Develop a System Enhancement and Mobile Health Application
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15-01005-18

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/17/2018
The OIG recommended the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Information and Technology ensure the new directive reflects updates so that new and emerging advances in information technology are included.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/17/2018
The OIG recommended the Acting Under Secretary for Health ensure VHA’s Chief Financial Officer, in consultation with VA’s Chief Financial Officer and Office of General Counsel, determine which medical care appropriation VHA should use for mobile health application development and notify VHA staff offices accordingly.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/17/2018
The OIG recommended the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Management issue a memorandum reiterating the importance of complying with the United States Code, Federal Regulations, and VA’s current policies on the proper use of appropriations.
Healthcare Inspection – Delays in Processing Release of Information Requests, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Bay Pines, Florida
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16-02864-71

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/17/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure strengthening of procedures for timely processing of Release of Information requests.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/24/2018
We recommended that the System Director strengthen the process to adequately capture and trend complaints related to Release of Information requests in accordance with Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/6/2019
We recommended that the System Director ensure an evaluation of the personnel issues negatively impacting staff retention and hiring in the Release of Information section and take appropriate action.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/10/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure accurate monitoring of Release of Information staff productivity.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/24/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure accurate and effective trackingand monitoring processes of Release of Information requests.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/10/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure consultation with the Office ofHuman Resources and the Office of General Counsel to determine the appropriateadministrative action, if any, for managers’ performance related to implementation ofcorrective action plans in response to privacy violations.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/30/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure Release of Information standardoperating procedures are established in accordance with VHA policy and implemented consistently.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/24/2018
We recommended that the System Director strengthen working relationships andcommunication processes within the facility Release of Information section andamongst staff and Business Office Service managers.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics, White City, Oregon
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17-01740-62

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/11/2018
The Facility Director requires the Patient Safety Manager to ensure completion of the required minimum of eight root cause analyses each fiscal year.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/5/2018
The Chief of Staff requires the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee to review all quality assurance data for the anticoagulation management program and monitors the committee’s compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members consistently participate on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 8/1/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures management-level representatives from all required disciplines consistently attend Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee meetings and monitors their compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures social workers conduct cyclical clinical visits with the required frequency and monitors the social workers’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program employees perform and document weekly contraband inspections and monitors employees’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/10/2018
The Associate Director ensures that closed circuit television surveillance systems are repaired or replaced for all required areas in the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program units.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/10/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program units have signage alerting patients and visitors of closed circuit television recording.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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17-01755-61

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers consistently implement and document actions recommended by the Peer Review Committee and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures completion of at least 75 percent of all required inpatient utilization management reviews and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors advisors’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/27/2018
The Facility Director ensures the Patient Safety Manager submits an annual patient safety report to facility leaders at the completion of each fiscal year and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Facility Director and Chief of Staff ensure that Executive Leadership Board and Peer Review Committee meeting minutes accurately reflect action status and that items are tracked to closure and monitor compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures the anticoagulation management program policy is revised to include the transition of patients between the inpatient and outpatient care settings and an anticoagulation quality assurance program.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Chief of Staff and Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensure that anticoagulation management program quality assurance data from all sites of care are collected, analyzed, and reported biannually to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and monitor compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/29/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that annual anticoagulation management program competency assessments include all required content and that employees assigned to this program complete competency assessments as required and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Facility Director ensures the facility’s revised inter-facility transfer policy includes all required elements.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers consistently document patient or surrogate informed consent, medical and behavioral stability, and identification of transferring and receiving provider or designee and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers document sending or communicating to the accepting facility pertinent patient information and monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Associate Director for Operations ensures designated team members conduct environment of care rounds in clinical and nonclinical areas as required and monitors compliance.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Associate Director for Operations ensures all locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members receive annual training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that providers include an airway assessment and history of previous adverse experience with sedation or anesthesia in the history and physical exam and/or pre-sedation assessment and monitors the providers’ compliance.
No. 15
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that providers provide and document informed consent prior to moderate sedation administration and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 16
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical teams conduct and document timeouts prior to moderate sedation procedures, the privileged provider participates in the timeout, and staff use a checklist that includes all required elements and monitors compliance.
No. 17
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/3/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee meetings include participation by all required disciplines and monitors compliance.
No. 18
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/27/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures the social workers and registered nurses conduct monthly cyclical clinical visits and monitors compliance.
Audit of Medical Support Assistant Workforce Management at the Phoenix VA Health Care System
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16-00928-391

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2018
The OIG recommended the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director ensures that the director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System implements controls to make sure sufficient information on the outpatient Medical Support Assistant workforce is captured and documented to allow leadership to align strategically this workforce with outpatient clinical operations.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2018
The OIG recommended the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director ensures that the director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System implements mechanisms to make certain that Human Resources Management Service personnel record complete and accurate Medical Support Assistant recruitment and hiring data and documentation in the USA Staffing System.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2018
The OIG recommended the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director ensures that the director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System leverages available incentives to the extent practicable to recruit and retain qualified applicants for human resources specialist positions.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2018
The OIG recommended the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director ensures that the director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System implements the Hire Right Hire Fast program’s best practices to improve the timeliness of the Medical Support Assistant selection process.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2018
The OIG recommended the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director ensures that the director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System implements controls to make certain newly hired Medical Support Assistants are provided with timely performance plans in accordance with VA Handbook 5013/12.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2018
The OIG recommended the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director ensures that the director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System evaluates the feasibility of using available employee survey data to identify and redress the reasons why Medical Support Assistants leave their current positions.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
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17-01852-59

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/7/2018
The Assistant Director ensures damaged sink counters on the cardiac intensive care unit are repaired.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/31/2018
The Chief of Staff and Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensure locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members receive annual training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitor compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/15/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures social workers and registered nurses conduct cyclical clinical visits with the frequency required by Veterans Health Administration policy for community nursing home oversight and monitors their compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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17-01741-58

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data quarterly and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors the advisors’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
The Associate Director ensures quality assurance data for the anticoagulation management program are reviewed at the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/19/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians provide specific education to patients with newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians obtain required laboratory tests prior to initiating anticoagulant medications and monitors the clinicians’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
The Associate Director ensures all required elements specific to anticoagulation management are included in competency assessments for all employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Facility Director ensures inter-facility patient transfer data are analyzed and reported to an identified quality oversight committee assigned these responsibilities and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures providers consistently document patient or surrogate informed consent and patient medical and behavioral stability and identify transferring providers or designees for patients transferred out of the facility and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/19/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that, for inter-facility transfers, providers document sending or communicating to the accepting facility pertinent patient information and monitors compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Assistant Director ensures environment of care inspections are conducted at the required frequency and documented in the Comprehensive Environment of Care Assessment and Compliance Tool and monitors compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Assistant Director ensures core team members consistently participate in environment of care rounds and attendance is documented in the Comprehensive Environment of Care Assessment and Compliance Tool and monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Assistant Director ensures that in patient care areas, floors and rolling equipment are clean, nourishment kitchen ice machines are clean, and damaged furniture is repaired or removed from service and monitors compliance.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Assistant Director ensures outdated supplies are removed from the Santa Fe VA Clinic and monitors compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
The Assistant Director ensures facility managers complete a physical security assessment for the locked geriatric mental health unit.
No. 15
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Assistant Director ensures all locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members receive annual training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, to include the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors compliance.
No. 16
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that providers include the accurate name of the provider performing the procedure on the informed consent and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 17
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the privileged providers performing the procedure participate in the timeout process prior to moderate sedation procedures and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 18
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical teams use a checklist that includes all required elements to conduct and document timeouts prior to moderate sedation procedures and monitors compliance.
No. 19
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee includes consistent representation by all required disciplines and monitors compliance.
No. 20
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the social workers and registered nurses conduct monthly cyclical clinical visits and monitors compliance.
Healthcare Inspection – Alleged Women’s Health Care Issues, Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System, Biloxi, Mississippi
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16-03705-60

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/29/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that system primary care providers receive education on Veterans Health Administration cervical cancer screening guidelines and that supervisors monitor compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
We recommended that the System Director review and evaluate the routine use of general anesthesia for loop electrosurgical excision procedures conducted in the operating room and take action as appropriate.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
We recommended that the System Director utilize Veterans Health Administration resources to promote a culture that discourages behaviors that undermine safe patient care and effective communication and collaboration between providers and between providers and patients.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that care coordination agreements between primary care and gynecology services meet system annual review requirements.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/16/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that Patient Advocacy Program managers enter all complaints into the Patient Advocacy Tracking System database and track all reported complaints to resolution.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/11/2018
We recommended that the System Director ensure that system gynecologists have current privileges that meet Veterans Health Administration and system policy requirements.
Healthcare Inspection - Patient Mental Health Care Issues at a Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 Facility
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16-03576-53

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure usage of only approved policies regarding use of benzodiazepines and facility managers monitor compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/4/2019
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure facility managers revise the patient complaint policy to include the VHA requirement for a clinical appeals process and to educate clinicians about the VHA requirement for clinical appeals and monitor compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/5/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that the Psychosocial Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program committee admission screening process isappropriate and timely and that facility managers monitor compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that mental health clinicians administer tuberculosis tests (purified protein derivative) when needed forPsychosocial Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program admission and that facility managers monitor compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/5/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that Mental Health services areprovided timely for patients designated as high risk for suicide that have beenrecently discharged from community hospitals.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/1/2020
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that non-VA care for psychiatricservices is offered to patients who need to be seen sooner than VA appointmentavailability permits.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director request that the Veterans IntegratedService Network Mental Health Program Manager evaluate facility Mental HealthServices and programs for opportunities for improvement.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/5/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that a Mental Health Treatment Coordinator policy is implemented as required by the Veterans Health Administrationand that all patients receiving mental health services are assigned a Mental Health Treatment Coordinator.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure compliance with medication reconciliation as required by facility policies.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/5/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that Suicide Behavior Reports are completed for all patient suicide attempts and that the Patient Safety Manager is added as a signer as required by facility policy.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/17/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that a peer review screening is completed for patients who have attempted suicide within 30 days of seeing a health care professional as required by facility policy.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/5/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director initiate an external peer review to determine whether mental health staff appropriately managed the patient’s bipolar illness. Based on the results of that peer review, the Facility Director should consult with the Office of Chief Counsel regarding an institutional disclosure, if appropriate.
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