All Reports

Mammography Program Deficiencies and Patient Results Communication at the Washington DC VA Medical Center
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20-00563-68
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/1/2021
The Washington DC VA Medical Center Director evaluates documentation processes for entering the Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System as primary diagnostic codes in the electronic health record and takes actions as necessary.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 1/8/2023
The Washington DC VA Medical Center Director evaluates the processes for notification of mammography exam results by ordering providers and takes actions as necessary.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/1/2021
The Washington DC VA Medical Center Director fully implements action plans for all issues listed in the September 2019 National Radiology Program Office site visit and monitors to completion.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/13/2021
The National Radiology Program Office ensures mammography programs have a comprehensive standard operating procedure manual and confirms compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/1/2021
The Washington DC VA Medical Center Director develops and implements a comprehensive standard operating procedure manual covering critical technical, clerical, and administrative functions for the facility’s Mammography Program.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/1/2021
The Washington DC VA Medical Center Director evaluates the oversight and training processes for the facility’s Mammography Program medical support assistant and takes actions as necessary.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/1/2021
The Washington DC VA Medical Center Director evaluates mammography technology staff training processes and takes actions to ensure mammography technology staff receive training through a formalized program.
VHA’s Response following Cardiac Catheterization Lab Closure at the Samuel S. Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany, New York
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19-09129-76
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/11/2022
The Under Secretary for Health should publish written guidance that clarifies roles and responsibilities of the national Cardiology program office, Veterans Integrated Service Networks, and Chief Medical Officers to review and opine on interventional cardiologist applicant’s qualifications for employment in those cases when facilities lack local interventional cardiology expertise and the facility’s Chief of Staff seeks subject matter expert opinion.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/11/2022
The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director reviews circumstances that led to the failure to respond to an OIG request for additional information and alters the person-dependent process accordingly to ensure future OIG referrals are responded to timely and completely.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/13/2021
The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director reviews circumstances that led to the failure to respond to an OIG request for additional information and alters the person-dependent process accordingly to ensure future OIG referrals are responded to timely and completely.
Misconduct by a Gynecological Provider at the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System in Biloxi, Mississippi
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20-01036-70
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/4/2022
The Under Secretary for Health initiates review of policies related to the role and training requirements of providers, including gynecologists, who conduct sensitive exams, to determine the need for the inclusion of trauma-informed care principles into training, policy, and practice.
No. 2
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The Under Secretary for Health ensures a review of policies related to the role and training requirements of chaperones for sensitive examinations and takes action as appropriate.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/30/2021
The South Central VA Health Care Network Director evaluates processes for tracking patient complaints, takes appropriate action to ensure that facility staff enter all complaints into the Patient Advocate Tracking System, and ensures that the data are tracked, trended, and analyzed to identify significant issues and trends.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/9/2021
The Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Director ensures staff education of the Veterans Health Administration and Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System policies related to employee misconduct and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/2/2021
The Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Director reviews and evaluates policies related to administrative investigations, including fact-finding reviews and administrative investigation boards, to ensure such investigations are timely, objective, and documentation is sufficient to address the event under review.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/9/2021
The Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Director and facility leaders review the subject gynecologist’s conduct and quality of care provided and meet all Veterans Health Administration requirements for state licensing board and National Practitioner Data Bank reporting.
Thoracic Surgery Quality of Care Issues and Facility Leaders’ Response at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, Florida
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18-01321-56
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/30/2021
The Under Secretary for Health designates a thoracic specialty leader who has the authority to review all aspects of the personnel and management actions and can provide unbiased, authoritative, and timely guidance to facilities on the most clinically sound course of action when a thoracic surgeon’s practice or outcomes are under review, in order to ensure that VA provides high quality care.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/30/2021
The Under Secretary for Health outlines general parameters and triggers for when facilities without local thoracic surgery expertise engage the thoracic specialty leader and how the thoracic specialty leader’s decisions and guidance will be documented.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/8/2022
The Under Secretary for Health clarifies Veterans Health Administration policy regarding providers’ responsibilities to document complications in operative reports.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/23/2021
The Under Secretary for Health reevaluates the eligible and mandatory assessment surgery cases reported to the National Surgery Office to determine if thoracic cases should be included in the list of mandatory assessment cases, and modifies the list as appropriate.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/23/2021
The Under Secretary for Health defines expectations for peer review committee members whose cases are being reviewed to leave the room during those deliberations, provides guidance on how that recusal is to be annotated in the Peer Review Committee minutes, and updates Veterans Health Administration policy, as needed.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/23/2021
The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center Director enhances processes to identify the existence of omissions or misrepresentations in operative note documentation and takes action based on identified deficiencies, if any.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/23/2021
The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center Director takes action to ensure that the surgeon is aware of, and complies with, expectations for professional communications and supporting staff to report adverse events and close calls.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/23/2021
The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center Director ensures the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center Surgical Work Group provides oversight as required by Veterans Health Administration policy and monitors for compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/14/2021
The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center Director confirms processes are in place to ensure providers’ clinical privileges are specific to the facility and service, and are based on each provider’s clinical competence, and monitors for compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/15/2021
The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center Director reviews whether the cases reflected in tables 1 and 2 in this report meet criteria for institutional disclosure and takes action as appropriate.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia
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20-00132-28
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures the Quality, Safety, Value, and Innovation Council monitors implemented improvement actions.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that all applicable deaths that occur within 24 hours of admission are peer reviewed.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that root cause analyses include all required review elements and are properly documented in the VHA Patient Safety Information System.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Medical Center Director determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures the Patient Safety Manager or designee provides feedback to staff who submit patient safety incidents that result in a root cause analysis.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/29/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that provider exit review forms are completed within seven calendar days of licensed healthcare professionals’ departure from the medical center.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures the Chief of Police conducts a physical security evaluation of the Emergency Department.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Assistant Director determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures signage is in place for all areas where biohazards are present.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Assistant Director determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures that occupational exposure to hazardous materials is minimized in decontamination areas.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/19/2021
The Associate Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that a safe and clean environment is maintained throughout the Athens VA Clinic.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/19/2021
The Associate Director determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures that the medication room and housekeeping supply closet at the Athens VA Clinic are secured at all times.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/19/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that personally identifiable information is protected at the Athens VA Clinic.
No. 12
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Closure Date: 12/16/2020
The Chief of Staff determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures that policies and procedures are in place for 24 hours a day, 7 days per week gynecological care.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/16/2020
The Chief of Staff determines the reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that each community-based outpatient clinic has at least two designated women’s health primary care providers or arrangements for leave coverage when only one designated provider is available.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/16/2020
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures the medical center has a designated women’s health clinical liaison at each community-based outpatient clinic.
No. 15
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that standard operating procedures align with manufacturers’ instructions for use.
No. 16
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that the Sterile Processing Services Chief reports the annual risk analysis results to the Veterans Integrated Service Network Sterile Processing Services Management Board.
No. 17
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines additional reasons for noncompliance and make certain that the Sterile Processing Services staff properly store high-level disinfected endoscopes.
No. 18
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that all new employees complete Level 1 training within 90 days of hire.
No. 19
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that the Sterile Processing Services staff receive properly completed competency assessments prior to reprocessing reusable medical equipment.
No. 20
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that Sterile Processing Services staff receive monthly continuing education.
Surgical Service Care Deficiencies in the Critical Care Unit at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia
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20-01480-31
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Topics:  Care Coordination ● Supplies and Equipment ● Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director evaluates the effectiveness of the current algorithms for critical care unit nurses and surgical intensivists involving post-operative patients and communication with tele-intensive care unit staff during off-hours, and takes action as indicated.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director confirms the current on-call policy is evaluated and modified as appropriate to include specific telemedicine intensive care unit processes.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures development of a written plan to address responsibilities of medicine and surgery staff caring for post-operative patients in the Critical Care Unit.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director requires critical care unit staff receive training on patient safety reporting and review processes, and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures the coordination between the facility quality management and telemedicine intensive care unit staff on required patient care reviews, and evaluates compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/28/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director requires that current and new critical care unit staff receive telemedicine intensive care unit initial orientation and competency training, and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/31/2021
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 Telemedicine Intensive Care Unit Program Medical Director requires telemedicine intensive care unit staff training on patient safety reporting and patient care review processes, and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/31/2021
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 Telemedicine Intensive Care Unit Program Medical Director ensures the telemedicine intensive care unit and facility quality management staff coordinate on required patient care reviews, and evaluates compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Summary Report for Fiscal Year 2019
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20-01994-18
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Topics:  Patient Safety ● Medical Staff Privileging Credentialing ● Military Sexual Trauma

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility-level senior leaders, ensures that summaries of the peer review committees’ work are reviewed quarterly by medical executive committees.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 6/3/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that all applicable deaths within 24 hours of admission are peer reviewed.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/23/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that cardiopulmonary resuscitation committees review each resuscitative episode under the facilities’ responsibility and include required elements in reviews.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/9/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures focused professional practice evaluation criteria are defined in advance.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 6/3/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures service chiefs include the minimum specialty criteria for focused professional practice evaluations of gastroenterology, pathology, nuclear medicine, and radiation oncology practitioners.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 6/3/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures executive committees of the medical staff document the decision to recommend continuing licensed independent practitioners’ privileges based on ongoing professional practice evaluation results.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that service chiefs’ privileging determinations are based, in part, on ongoing professional practice evaluation activities.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/15/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that ongoing professional practice evaluations use assessments by providers with similar training and privileges.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures facility clinical managers clearly define and share in advance the expectations, outcomes, and time frames for focused professional practice evaluations for cause with licensed independent practitioners.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that inventories of resources and assets that may be needed during an emergency are documented and reviewed annually.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that monthly and quarterly controlled substances inspection reports are reviewed at least quarterly by the facility committees responsible for quality oversight.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that electronic access for monitoring and performing controlled substances balance adjustments is limited to appropriate staff.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that controlled substances inspectors complete monthly physical inspections of controlled substances storage areas on the day initiated.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that controlled substances inspectors verify controlled substance orders for five randomly selected dispensing activities.
No. 15
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that controlled substances inspectors verify that drugs listed on the “Destructions File Holding Report” are secured and documented and that there is a corresponding sealed evidence bag for each medication during monthly inspections.
No. 16
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that controlled substances inspectors verify the inventory count for prescription pads on the day of monthly pharmacy inspections.
No. 17
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that controlled substances inspectors verify written controlled substances prescriptions during monthly area inspections.
No. 18
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that controlled substances inspectors verify pharmacy vault inventory at the required frequency.
No. 19
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/2/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that controlled substances inspectors complete emergency drug cache inspections that include checks for lock tampering and verification of lock numbers.
No. 20
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/2/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that clinical managers implement processes for reviewing automated drug dispensing cabinet override reports.
No. 21
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/24/2020
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures military sexual trauma coordinators establish and monitor related training.
No. 22
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/24/2020
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures military sexual trauma coordinators communicate related issues, services, and initiatives to facility leaders.
No. 23
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/4/2023
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures mental health and primary care providers complete mandatory military sexual trauma training within the required time frame.
No. 24
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/2/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that clinicians provide and document education on newly prescribed medications and assess patient/caregiver understanding of the information provided.
No. 25
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/2/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that clinicians review and reconcile patients’ medications and maintain and communicate accurate medication information in electronic health records.
No. 26
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/23/2021
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensure that women veterans health committees include required core members, meet at least quarterly, and report to leadership.
No. 27
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2023
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that clinical managers implement quality assurance processes that include tracking of cervical cancer screening notification and follow-up care.
No. 28
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that urgent care centers operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week have an approved waiver from the National Director of Emergency Medicine.
No. 29
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that emergency departments and urgent care centers are staffed with a minimum of two registered nurses during all hours of operation.
No. 30
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensure clinical managers maintain a backup call schedule for emergency department and urgent care center providers.
No. 31
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that support services, including social work, are available to emergency departments and urgent care centers during all hours of operation.
No. 32
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/12/2022
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that facilities use appropriate signage to direct patients to emergency departments and urgent care centers.
Deficiencies in Ambulatory Care Center and Emergency Department Processes at the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System in California
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19-08411-12
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/3/2021
The VA Loma Linda Healthcare System Director ensures that mental health clinic nursing staff are trained on documentation requirements when providing patient care and monitors compliance with training.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/29/2021
The VA Loma Linda Healthcare System Director reviews the facility’s hand-off communication policy to ensure that nursing staff are aware of all circumstances in which hand-off communication must occur and takes action as necessary.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/30/2021
The VA Loma Linda Healthcare System Director ensures that all nurses filling the first look nurse role obtain and document each patient’s vital signs within 10 minutes of the patient’s arrival to the Emergency Department and monitors compliance.
Management of the Ophthalmology Clinic and Patient Safety Reporting Concerns at the VA Central Iowa Health Care System in Des Moines
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20-01326-08
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/2/2021
The VA Central Iowa Health Care System Director ensures Ophthalmology Clinic staff are trained on how to identify, analyze, and report patient safety events and close calls.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/2/2021
The VA Central Iowa Health Care System Director ensures that patient safety events and close calls are entered into the Joint Patient Safety Reporting system, and monitors for compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/30/2021
The VA Central Iowa Health Care System Director develops an action plan to address the culture within the Ophthalmology Clinic and monitors effectiveness.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/30/2021
The VA Central Iowa Health Care System Director reviews the oversight and management of the Ophthalmology Clinic, makes recommendations for improvement, and monitors effectiveness.
Deficiencies in Care and Excessive Use of Restraints for a Patient Who Died at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia
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19-08106-273
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Topics:  Patient Safety ● Mental Health ● Care Coordination

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 6/10/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director conducts a full review of the patient’s final episode of care and determines whether an institutional disclosure is warranted.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 6/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director conducts a full review of the patient’s final episode of care and consults with the appropriate Human Resources and General Counsel Offices to determine whether any personnel actions are warranted.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 6/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures Emergency Department and Inpatient Medical Unit staff performs vital sign assessment and monitors patients who received sedating medications.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 3/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures Intensive Care Unit nurses accurately document medication administration.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 6/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures Intensive Care Unit staff implement patient restraint management according to the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center policy, including documentation, physician orders, and education requirements.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 6/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures Intensive Care Unit nursing staff communicate with providers regarding patients’ refusal of treatment.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 3/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director strengthens Inpatient Medical Unit nicotine replacement therapy processes and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 8/16/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director strengthens processes to include the patient, family members, or surrogate in informed consent procedures and treatment decisions, as appropriate, and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 8/16/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director evaluates the inpatient mental health consult process, and addresses timeliness and completion of decision-making capacity consult requests, and monitors compliance.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 3/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director consults with the Office of General Counsel regarding policies related to the management of patients presenting under a Form 1013 and advises policy and practices consistent with Georgia State mental health laws and takes action, as appropriate.
No. 11
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Closure Date: 11/18/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures staff adhere to inter-facility transfer policies and procedures, including accurate communication of patients’ restraint management status, and monitors compliance.
No. 12
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Closure Date: 6/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures that a consultation liaison psychiatrist is included on code gray teams at both divisions.
No. 13
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Closure Date: 3/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director evaluates inpatient mental health consult staffing and establishes a plan to ensure adequate staffing to complete consult requests as required without outpatient mental health appointment cancellations and monitors compliance.
No. 14
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Closure Date: 6/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director establishes consistent urgency levels in the applicable Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center policies and the corresponding mental health consult template.
No. 15
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Closure Date: 3/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director establishes consistent urgency levels in the applicable Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center policies and the corresponding mental health consult template.
No. 16
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Closure Date: 3/8/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Disruptive Behavior Committee reviews patient record flags and provides input into patients’ management to mitigate violence, as required by Veterans Health Administration, and monitors compliance.
No. 17
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Closure Date: 8/16/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director makes certain that staff receive education in code gray policy and procedures, including completion of the code gray evaluation form, and monitors compliance.
No. 18
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Closure Date: 11/18/2021
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Disruptive Behavior Committee provides oversight of the code gray team activities, as required by Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center policy, and monitors compliance.
Deficiencies in Pharmacy and Nursing Processes at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans
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19-07854-272
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director educates pharmacy staff on the Veterans Health Administration and Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System policies related to unaffixed medication labels, and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 1/24/2022
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director ensures that the intensive care unit nursing staff comply with the five rights of medication administration prior to administering medications.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 5/25/2021
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director ensures that the intensive care unit nursing staff administer medications in accordance with physician orders as required by Veterans Health Administration and Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System policies.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 5/25/2021
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director confirms that the intensive care unit nursing staff comply with the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System policy for high-alert and high-risk medications.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 5/25/2021
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director validates compliance with obtaining locked boxes to secure controlled substances for intravenous medications administered on the inpatient units.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 5/25/2021
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director verifies that facility staff are aware of how to submit Joint Patient Safety Reports that contain complete and accurate information.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director evaluates the circumstances surrounding the death of the patient and determines if peer reviews of relevant clinical staff are warranted.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Director evaluates the circumstances surrounding the death of the patient and determines if an institutional disclosure is warranted.
Nurse Staffing, Patient Safety, and Environment of Care Concerns at the Community Living Center within the San Francisco VA Health Care System in California
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20-00005-271
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Topics:  Staffing ● Patient Safety

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director ensures that the Associate Director for Patient Care Services performs a comprehensive review of Community Living Center nurse staffing methodology, retrains the Nurse Staffing Methodology Coordinator, and develops staffing methodology processes that reflect the needs of the Community Living Center.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director continues efforts to recruit and hire for Community Living Center nursing assistants and ensures that alternate staffing strategies are consistently available to meet target nursing hours per patient day until optimal staffing is attained.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director confers with facility nursing leadership and the Office of Human Resource Management to identify and mitigate barriers to nursing assistant staff retention and recruitment and takes appropriate action.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director consults with VA Sierra Pacific Network and VA Central Office to determine the number and status of approved Community Living Center operating beds and takes action as appropriate.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 5/24/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director ensures a review of the episode of care related to Resident B’s elopement to determine if a formal quality management review is needed and takes action accordingly.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director evaluates the requirement for Community Living Center registry nursing assistant staff access to the electronic health record system, involving the Office of General Counsel and the Network Contracting Office 21 as appropriate and takes action if needed.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director ensures that Environmental Management Services provides Community Living Center staff a clear communication pathway to request assistance for all shifts and confirms its functionality.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director establishes comprehensive quality monitoring of the ongoing issue of the presence of flying insects in the Community Living Center, and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director ensures that Community Living Center staff adhere to Veterans Health Administration hand-hygiene policies and ensures that corrective actions are initiated when hand-hygiene performance falls below established thresholds.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 3/17/2021
The San Francisco VA Health Care System Director ensures a comprehensive review of the registry agency agreement for performance, the provision of nursing assistants as requested, and determines if the agreement meets the needs of the Community Living Center.
Deficiencies in Provider Oversight and Privileging Processes at the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center in Dublin, Georgia
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19-07828-265
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 6/15/2021
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 Director ensures Carl Vinson VA Medical Center leaders, in permanent or acting roles, are knowledgeable about and compliant with the oversight of medical staff, including those with possible physical impairments.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 12/27/2021
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 Director ensures Carl Vinson VA Medical Center leaders, in permanent or acting roles, are knowledgeable about and compliant with privileging policies.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 6/15/2021
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 Director ensures Carl Vinson VA Medical Center leaders, in permanent or acting roles, are knowledgeable about and compliant with state licensing board reporting policies.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 3/16/2021
The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center Director evaluates concerns that the urologist has a possible physical impairment, consults with Human Resources, and takes action, if indicated.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 6/15/2021
The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center Director reviews current clinical care review processes, identifies areas of noncompliance with facility bylaws, and takes action to ensure compliance.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 3/16/2021
The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center Director reviews current reduction of privileges processes, identifies areas of noncompliance, and takes action to ensure compliance with Veterans Health Administration policy.
Pharmacy Process Concerns and Improper Staff Communication at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia
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20-01102-266
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 4/26/2021
The Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center Director ensures prescriber education on prior authorization drug request consultation procedures including consult documentation options, urgency level communication, patient notification, and appeals processes.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center Director promotes mental health prescribers’ utilization of the prior authorization drug request process in consideration of the medication plan most effective for each patient.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center Director ensures that electronic health records are reviewed for improper entries, and takes action as indicated.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 4/26/2021
The Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center Director conducts a review of staff improper electronic health record entries and electronic mail and consults with Office of Human Resources to determine if administrative action is warranted, and takes action as appropriate.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center Director evaluates ways to improve the workplace relationships between Mental Health and Pharmacy Services staff, including consultation with the Veterans Integrated Services Network or the National Center for Organizational Development, and takes actions as appropriate.
Mismanagement of Emergency Department Care of a Patient with Acute Coronary Syndrome at the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas
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20-01318-258
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Topics:  Patient Safety ● Care Coordination

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director ensures that Emergency Department physicians receive training on the facility’s acute coronary syndrome protocol and verifies that ST-elevation myocardial infarction time goals are monitored, and improvements implemented as needed.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director makes certain a facility policy that is applicable to all patient care areas outlines standardized processes for safe and timely interfacility transfers, including communication of appropriate transport services needed.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 8/24/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director conducts an analysis of the contributing factors that led to the delay in the patient’s interfacility transfer and takes action as necessary to improve identified deficiencies.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 8/24/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director ensures the newly implemented Emergency Department Interfacility Transfers policy is reviewed and updated to include improvements as data are obtained from the interfacility transfer analysis.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 8/24/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director makes certain that Emergency Department and Health Administrative Service staff are trained on the Emergency Department Interfacility Transfers policy, the updated service agreement between Cardiology and Emergency Departments, and interfacility transfer process and monitors the transfer process, including timeliness of transfers.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director ensures the Critical Care Committee evaluates all concerns identified during code events, makes recommendations for improvement, confirms actions are implemented, and assesses effectiveness of actions.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 3/9/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director ensures the Chief, Quality Management is a member of the Critical Care Committee, develops a process to address problems in obtaining the assistance of Emergency Medical Services or use of the 911 call system, and assesses the effectiveness of the process.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 8/24/2021
The VA Heartland Network Director reviews the peer reviews of physicians who provided care to the patient to determine if a focused clinical review by an independent reviewer is warranted and takes actions as necessary.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 8/24/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director reviews the patient’s care provided in the Emergency Department and the circumstances of the interfacility transfer to determine if an institutional disclosure is warranted.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 5/10/2021
The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center Director ensures interfacility transfer data are collected, analyzed, and incorporated into the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center’s quality management program as required by Veterans Health Administration policy.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois
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20-00069-222
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Topics:  Patient Safety ● Medical Staff Privileging Credentialing

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 1/19/2022
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures specific action items are monitored and documented in the Quality Board minutes when problems or opportunities are identified.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that all applicable deaths within 24 hours of admission are peer reviewed.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that a summary of the Peer Review Committee’s analyses is reviewed quarterly by the Medical Executive Board.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures all required representatives consistently participate in interdisciplinary reviews of utilization management data.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures service chiefs initiate and complete focused professional practice evaluations on all newly hired licensed independent practitioners.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 1/21/2022
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that service chiefs include the minimum pathology and radiation oncology specific criteria for ongoing professional practice evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 11/5/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures service chiefs collect, review, and use ongoing professional practice evaluation data in determinations to continue current privileges.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 11/5/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that the Medical Executive Board’s decisions to recommend initial and continuation of privileges are based on focused and ongoing professional practice evaluation results.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that provider exit review forms are completed within seven calendar days of licensed healthcare professionals departing the medical center.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that Sterile Processing Services employees remove expired commercial sterile supplies from service.
No. 11
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Closure Date: 1/20/2022
The Associate Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures clinical areas are in good repair and that a safe and clean environment is maintained throughout the medical center.
No. 12
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that providers complete pain screening for all patients prior to initial dispensing of long-term opioid therapy.
No. 13
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that providers complete an aberrant behavior risk assessment on all patients prior to initiating long-term opioid therapy.
No. 14
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that providers consistently conduct urine drug testing as required for patients on long-term opioid therapy.
No. 15
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that providers consistently obtain and document informed consent for patients who are initiating long-term opioid therapy.
No. 16
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that follow-up with patients receiving long-term opioid therapy include an assessment of adherence to the pain management plan of care and the effectiveness of the intervention.
No. 17
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Closure Date: 10/22/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff receive annual suicide prevention refresher training.
No. 18
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that at least 10 percent of reprocessed endoscopes are tested for bioburden.
No. 19
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Closure Date: 8/25/2020
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures that traffic flow in the gastroenterology clean storage area is restricted.
No. 20
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Closure Date: 7/16/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that Sterile Processing Services maintains required climate control parameters for areas where reusable medical equipment is reprocessed and stored.
No. 21
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Closure Date: 8/25/2020
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures Sterile Processing Services staff complete Level 1 training within 90 days of hire
No. 22
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Closure Date: 11/5/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that the Sterile Processing Services Chief complete competency assessments for staff reprocessing reusable medical equipment.
No. 23
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Closure Date: 11/5/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures Sterile Processing Services staff receive monthly continuing education.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas
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19-06872-199
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Topics:  Patient Safety ● Medical Staff Privileging Credentialing ● Suicide Prevention

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures all required representatives consistently participate in interdisciplinary reviews of utilization management data.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 7/9/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that root cause analyses include all required review elements and are properly documented in the VHA Patient Safety Information System.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 7/9/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that root cause analysis actions are implemented and properly documented in the VHA Patient Safety Information System.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that the Patient Safety Manager or designee provides an annual patient safety report to medical center leaders.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 12/29/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures clinical managers define in advance, communicate, and document expectations for focused professional practice evaluations in provider profiles.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 3/31/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that reprivileging decisions are based on service-specific ongoing professional practice evaluation data.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 3/31/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures clinical managers consistently collect and review ongoing professional practice evaluation data.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 3/31/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that providers with similar training and privileges complete ongoing professional practice evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 3/31/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and makes certain that Medical Professional Standards Board meeting minutes consistently reflect the review of professional practice evaluation results when recommending continuation of privileges.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 12/29/2021
The Chief of Staff determines reason(s) for noncompliance and makes certain that provider exit review forms are completed within seven calendar days of licensed healthcare professionals departing the medical center.
No. 11
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Chief of Staff determines reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures the departing licensed healthcare professional’s first- or second-line supervisor appropriately signs the exit review form.
No. 12
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Associate Director determines reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that patient care supply areas are properly designated, and adequate temperature and humidity controls are continuously monitored and maintained.
No. 13
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that a safe and clean environment is maintained throughout the medical center.
No. 14
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Chief of Staff determines the reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that personally identifiable information is protected when transporting information or specimens from the clinics to the medical center.
No. 15
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Closure Date: 12/14/2022
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that clinicians complete a behavioral risk assessment that includes a history of substance abuse, psychological disease, and aberrant drug-related behaviors on patients prior to initiating long-term opioid therapy.
No. 16
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Closure Date: 6/13/2022
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and makes certain that healthcare providers consistently obtain and document informed consent for patients who are initiating long-term opioid therapy.
No. 17
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Closure Date: 12/14/2022
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures healthcare providers follow up with patients within three months after initiating long-term opioid therapy.
No. 18
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Chief of Staff determines reason(s) for noncompliance and makes certain that clinicians conduct four follow-up appointments within the required time frame and document the patient’s preference for telephonic follow-up, if warranted.
No. 19
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that clinicians complete safety plans in a timely manner and that all required elements—including firearm and opioid safety—are assessed for patients with High Risk for Suicide Patient Record Flags.
No. 20
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures clinical and nonclinical staff receive annual suicide prevention refresher training.
No. 21
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Closure Date: 7/9/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and appoints a multidisciplinary committee responsible for life-sustaining treatment decision reviews that includes representatives from three or more different disciplines.
No. 22
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and makes certain that required members consistently attend Women Veterans Health Committee meetings.
No. 23
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and makes certain that Sterile Processing Services reports the annual risk analysis to the Veterans Integrated Service Network Sterile Processing Services Management Board.
No. 24
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that Sterile Processing Services maintain required airflow parameters for areas where reusable medical equipment is reprocessed.
No. 25
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Closure Date: 8/18/2020
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that staff avoid eating, drinking, and/or storing food items in areas where decontamination, sterilization, or clean/sterile storage occurs.148
No. 26
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Closure Date: 1/15/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services determines reason(s) for noncompliance and ensures that staff properly store endoscopes.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the VA St. Louis Health Care System in Missouri
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19-06873-210
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Topics:  Medical Staff Privileging Credentialing ● Suicide Prevention ● Patient Safety

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 12/22/2021
The System Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures improvement actions recommended by the Quality Executive Board are fully implemented and improvement changes are monitored.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 2/9/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures all required representatives consistently participate in interdisciplinary utilization management data reviews.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 12/22/2021
The System Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that the Patient Safety Manager or designee consistently implements improvement actions arising from root cause analysis activities.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 12/22/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that service chiefs include service-specific criteria for ongoing professional practice evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 9/27/2022
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that service chiefs’ reprivileging recommendations are based on ongoing professional practice evaluation activities.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 12/22/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that the Medical Executive Board’s decision to recommend continuation of privileges is based on ongoing professional practice evaluation results.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 9/25/2023
The System Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that provider exit review forms are completed within seven calendar days of licensed healthcare professionals departing the healthcare system.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 5/24/2021
The Associate Director determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures mental health unit cameras are reconfigured to eliminate blind spots.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that providers complete a behavioral risk assessment that includes a history of substance abuse, psychological disease, and aberrant drug-related behaviors for all patients prior to initiating long-term opioid therapy.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that healthcare providers consistently conduct urine drug testing as required for patients on long-term opioid therapy.
No. 11
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that healthcare providers consistently obtain and document informed consent for patients prior to beginning long-term opioid therapy.
No. 12
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures healthcare providers follow up with patients within three months after initiating long-term opioid therapy and assess intervention effectiveness.
No. 13
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that the Pain Committee monitors the quality of pain assessment, effectiveness of pain management interventions, and opportunities for improvements.
No. 14
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that the Suicide Prevention Coordinator delivers at least five outreach activities each month.
No. 15
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that providers conduct four follow-up visits, either face-to-face or telephonic with documented consent, within the required time frame.
No. 16
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The System Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff receive annual suicide prevention refresher training.
No. 17
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Closure Date: 2/9/2021
The System Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and makes certain that required members are assigned and consistently attend Women Veterans Health Committee meetings and that the committee reports to an executive leadership board.
No. 18
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Closure Date: 2/9/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services determines the reasons for noncompliance and ensures that gastroenterology staff test at least 10 percent of reprocessed endoscopes for bioburden and testing to include each endoscope model.
No. 19
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures that all new Sterile Processing Services employees complete Level 1 training within 90 days of hire.
No. 20
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Closure Date: 9/21/2021
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures Sterile Processing Services staff receive monthly continuing education.
Surrogate Decision-Maker, Clinical, and Patient Rights Deficiencies at the Robley Rex VA Medical Center in Louisville, Kentucky
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19-08666-212
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 6/30/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director ensures staff document clinical assessments of patients’ decision-making capacity throughout hospitalization as required by Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 6/30/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director evaluates social worker practices related to facilitating the release of information when a patient lacks decision-making capacity, and takes action as indicated.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 6/30/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director establishes “reasonable inquiry” parameters for determination of a surrogate as required by Veterans Health Administration policy and provides staff education as needed.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 6/30/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director ensures that when patients lack decision-making capacity, staff verify and document the status of surrogates, and the efforts to identify surrogates, according to Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 1/27/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director evaluates the quality and comprehensiveness of clinical documentation in support of diagnoses and treatment decisions across the patient’s hospitalization, and takes action as indicated.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 1/27/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director ensures interdisciplinary and cross-service communication and collaboration for complex patients and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 3/22/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director ensures providers complete medication reconciliation for patients transferred to the mental health unit(s) as required by Veterans Health Administration and Robley Rex VA Medical Center policies.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 1/27/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director ensures compliance regarding completion of documentation of PRN (as needed) medication effectiveness as required by Veterans Health Administration and Robley Rex VA Medical Center policies.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 3/22/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director reviews clinical decision-making and administrative processes relative to the patient’s admission to hospice, and takes appropriate actions as indicated.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 9/20/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director develops a mechanism to ensure involuntary admissions (72-hour holds) for current and future patients are managed and documented according to Veterans Health Administration and Robley Rex VA Medical Center policies, and Kentucky state laws.
No. 11
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Closure Date: 1/27/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director develops a mechanism to ensure that patients in behavioral restraints are assessed every 15 minutes as required, and that documentation complies with Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 12
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Closure Date: 1/27/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director ensures that its policy on restraints and seclusion is updated to reflect the frequency of training requirements, and that staff are appropriately trained and competent in the use of restraints as required by Veterans Health Administration and Robley Rex VA Medical Center policies.
No. 13
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Closure Date: 3/22/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director takes action to ensure processes for reviewing inpatient deaths is consistent with Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 14
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Closure Date: 1/27/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director reviews the patient’s continuum of care and evaluates if additional peer reviews and/or other quality reviews are warranted, and takes action as indicated.
No. 15
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Closure Date: 1/27/2021
The Robley Rex VA Medical Center Director reviews the circumstances related to an unauthorized individual making decisions for the patient and conducts appropriate disclosure to the patient’s representative as warranted.
Alleged Deficiencies in Pharmacy Service Procedures at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia
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19-09776-223
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Topics:  Patient Safety

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 1/26/2021
The Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center Director ensures implementation of a process to document and track orientation, competency assessment, and annual competencies of pharmacy staff, and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 1/26/2021
The Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center Director ensures facility leaders are trained in the process of reporting any and all future diversions and loss incidents according to requirements outlined in VHA Directive 1108.01, Controlled Substance Management, May 1, 2019.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 1/26/2021
The Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center Director conducts a review of the circumstances that resulted in the misplacement of testosterone and develops an action plan to prevent a similar recurrence, if warranted.
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