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The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director ensures emergency department, mental health, and inpatient medical and nursing staff responsible for suicide risk assessment understand the need to evaluate patients for a personally owned insulin pump and remove the insulin pump prior to inpatient admission, when necessary and monitors for compliance.

The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director verifies the draft insulin pump policy is finalized, and Lexington VA Healthcare System emergency department, mental health, and inpatient medical and nursing staff are educated on the policy.

The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director ensures leaders and staff review the Lexington VA Healthcare System policy evaluation and approval procedure.

The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director verifies that patients receive discharge instructions, with a follow-up care plan when discharged from the Lexington VA Healthcare System emergency department.

The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director ensures a review of Psychiatrist 2’s documentation in Patient 2’s electronic health record and makes certain documentation is completed according to Veteran Health Administration policy, including that entries are accurate, succinct, without extensive copy and paste, and devoid of derogatory, critical, comments, and takes action as warranted.

The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director confirms that the patient safety managers understand and apply Veteran Health Administration guidance to accurately use safety assessment codes when scoring a patient safety event.

The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director verifies that root cause analyses are completed according to Veterans Health Administration policy including interviewing individuals knowledgeable about the event.

The Lexington VA Healthcare System Director ensures peer representation at the Peer Review Committee for psychiatry case reviews.

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director considers conducting peer reviews for the clinical staff involved in the patient’s care from day 30 through day 32, to identify opportunities to strengthen clinical practices and improve the quality of patient care.

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director ensures that inpatient nurses receive training on the National Early Warning Signs assessment related to the assessment’s administration, intervention, escalation, and documentation; establishes a process to monitor inpatient nurses’ adherence; and conducts audits to ensure improved and sustained compliance.

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director ensures nursing staff have knowledge of and timely access to the accurate names and contact numbers for patients’ on-call provider teams and the medical officer of the day, and addresses and closely monitors discrepancies as warranted.

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director reviews [Standard Operating Procedure] SOP-00-QM-100, Clinical and Administrative Escalation Process, May 28, 2025; ensures the procedure meets facility and service-line needs; and confirms information is disseminated to relevant leaders, providers, and nursing staff.

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director ensures nursing shift assessments electronic health record documentation is completed, timely, and at frequencies required by Veterans Health Administration’s nursing policies and procedures; takes corrective action as indicated; and establishes a process to monitor for improved and sustained compliance.

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director evaluates the circumstances surrounding the death of the patient to ensure completion of comprehensive quality review process(es) in alignment with Veterans Health Administration standards on patient safety and high reliability that identify root causes and provide actions that enhance patient safety and mitigate similar events.

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director confirms that facility staff made reasonable efforts to conduct an institutional disclosure with the patient’s family.