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The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs recommend continued privileges based on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation activities

The Chief of Staff ensures the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff/Credentials Committee recommends continuation of licensed independent practitioners’ privileges based on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation results.

The Associate Director ensures staff check inventory in clean and sterile storerooms and remove expired or outdated items.

The Director ensures leaders conduct institutional disclosures for applicable sentinel events.

The Director ensures staff complete a root cause analysis for all events assigned an actual or potential safety assessment code score of 3.

The Associate Director ensures staff keep patient areas clean and free from undue wear.

The Director ensures staff check over-the-door alarms on the mental health inpatient unit according to the manufacturer’s guidelines.

The Director ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same day as a patient’s positive suicide risk screen in ambulatory care settings.

The Director ensures leaders conduct institutional disclosures for applicable sentinel events.

The Director ensures staff complete a root cause analysis for all patient safety events assigned an actual or potential safety assessment code score of 3.

The Associate Director ensures Environmental Management Service staff keep areas used by patients clean and orderly.

The Associate Director ensures staff keep furnishings and walls in good repair.

The Associate Director ensures staff use solid bottom shelves in storage areas.

The Associate Director ensures staff inspect, test, and maintain medical equipment.

The Associate Director ensures staff document VA police response times for panic alarm testing in the mental health inpatient unit.

The Director ensures the Suicide Prevention Coordinator reports suicide-related events monthly to quality management staff.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs report Focused Professional Practice Evaluation results to an executive committee of the medical staff for consideration in privileging recommendations.

The Director ensures staff conduct environment of care inspections in patient care areas as required.

The Director ensures staff test panic alarms in the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit at least quarterly and record testing in a log, including police response times.

The Director ensures staff test over-the-door alarms in the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit per the manufacturer’s recommendations.

The Director ensures staff keep interior spaces in the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit safe and suitable for care.

The Director ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same day as a patient’s positive suicide risk screen in all ambulatory care settings.

The Chief of Staff ensures staff record the Peer Review Committee’s formal discussions related to changes in peer review level assignments in the meeting minutes.

The Chief of Staff ensures the Medical Staff Executive Committee reviews data provided by the Peer Review Committee to determine the need for further action.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs complete Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations prior to reprivileging to ensure continuous delivery of quality care.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs use specialty-specific criteria in the professional practice evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.

The Associate Director ensures the Comprehensive Environment of Care Rounds Coordinator or designee schedules environment of care inspections and staff complete and document them at the required frequency.

The Associate Director ensures staff keep patient care areas safe and clean.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff document police response times to panic alarm testing in the mental health inpatient unit.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff test over-the-door alarms based on the manufacturer’s recommendations for mental health inpatient unit sleeping rooms.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff check all mental health inpatient unit ceiling tiles semiannually.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures the Medical Center Director has sufficient biomedical staff and confirms they inspect and test all medical equipment for scheduled maintenance.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures compliance with VHA Directive 1860, Biomedical Engineering Performance Monitoring and Improvement, for oversight structure of the medical center’s biomedical program.

The Medical Center Director ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same calendar day as a positive suicide risk screen, when clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs define the time frames for Focused Professional Practice Evaluations.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs recommend reprivileging based, in part, on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation activities

The Director ensures staff remove corrugated containers from patient care areas.

The Director ensures staff keep storerooms clean and free of visible dust and soiling.

The Director ensures Environmental Management Services staff keep patient care areas clean.

The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures staff remove expired commercial products from patient care areas.

The Director ensures staff store clean and dirty equipment separately.

The Director ensures staff maintain walls to allow for thorough cleaning.

The Associate Director ensures staff test over-the-door alarms in the Inpatient Mental Health unit per the manufacturer’s recommendations.

The Director ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation following a patient’s positive suicide risk screen.

The Medical Center Director ensures leaders identify and evaluate sentinel events and conduct and document institutional disclosures when criteria are met.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff complete a root cause analysis for all patient safety events assigned an actual or potential safety assessment code score of 3.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs recommend reprivileging for licensed independent practitioners based, in part, on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data.

The Chief of Staff ensures staff report licensed independent practitioners’ Focused Professional Practice Evaluation results to the Clinical Executive Board.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Chief Medical Officer provides effective oversight of credentialing and privileging processes at the healthcare system.

The Medical Center Director ensures the comprehensive environment of care coordinator schedules environment of care inspections at the required frequency and verifies staff complete and document them.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff document police response times to panic alarm testing in the Inpatient Mental Health Unit.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for testing over-the-door alarms on Inpatient Mental Health Unit sleeping room doors.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff maintain a safe environment in the Inpatient Mental Health Unit.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff post hazard warning signs on all access doors where potentially infectious materials are located.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff keep patient care areas safe and clean.

The Chief of Staff ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation the same calendar day, when logistically feasible and clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients with a positive suicide risk screen.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff identify sentinel events and take appropriate action when home oxygen fires occur.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures network staff track and monitor home oxygen vendor completion of root cause analyses when sentinel events occur.

The Chief of Staff ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation the same calendar day, when logistically feasible and clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients with a positive suicide risk screen.

The Chief of Staff ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same day as a patient’s positive suicide risk screen in all ambulatory care settings.

The Deputy Secretary ensures mitigation of the high-risk pharmacy-related patient safety issues identified during the May 2021 National Center for Patient Safety visit.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates whether the new electronic health record reflects accurate patient medication information per Veterans Health Administration requirements and takes action as indicated.

The Deputy Secretary ensures the resolution of pharmacy-related usability issues identified in this report.

The Deputy Secretary ensures correction of inaccurate medication data transmitted to the Health Data Repository.

The Under Secretary for Health determines the need for and implements a comprehensive strategy to review patients affected by inaccurate medication data transmitted to the Health Data Repository to evaluate whether harm occurred, the need for patients to undergo testing or treatment, and the appropriateness of institutional disclosures.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures patients affected by inaccurate medication data transmitted to the Health Data Repository are notified of the risk of harm per Veterans Health Administration requirements.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures legacy site providers are aware of mitigations needed for patients previously treated at a new electronic health record site and monitors compliance.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures that pharmacist staffing levels are assessed and addressed prior to the implementation of the new electronic health record at additional VA sites

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates the underlying technical and functional issues resulting in workarounds and educational materials needed to perform pharmacy-related operations within the new electronic health record and takes action as indicated.

The VA Maine Healthcare System Director confirms that staff complete the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale and document on the Veterans Health Administration template when patients are unwilling to participate in completion of the screening.

The VA Maine Healthcare System Director oversees a review to determine whether a VA Maine Healthcare System policy in which clinical staff will be expected to develop safety plans with patients is needed; and if so, ensures one is created.

The VA Maine Healthcare System Director verifies that patients identified as having suicidal ideations or behaviors have personalized safety plans documented in the electronic health record, and monitors compliance.

The VA Maine Healthcare System Director assesses staff knowledge of when to notify the VA Maine Healthcare System suicide prevention staff about a patient who has made a threat of self-directed violence during a phone call with VA staff, and takes action as warranted.

The VA Maine Healthcare System Director ensures that VA Maine Healthcare System leaders and root cause analysis teams are trained in the process for responding to concerns with root cause analysis team findings according to VA National Center for Patient Safety guidance, and monitors adherence.

The VA Maine Healthcare System Director ensures that a review of the episode of care prior to the patient’s death is completed to determine whether peer reviews are warranted, and takes action accordingly.

The VA Maine Healthcare System Director confirms that VA Maine Healthcare System leaders, risk managers, and patient safety staff have knowledge of the types of quality management reviews that can and cannot be done concurrently.

The Director ensures the Patient Safety Manager documents start dates for sentinel event investigations in the Joint Patient Safety Reporting system.

The Director ensures the Patient Safety Manager initiates a root cause analysis for all patient safety events assigned an actual or potential safety assessment code score of 3.

The Director ensures executive leaders consolidate all credentialing and privileging activities into one credentialing and privileging office under the Chief of Staff.

The Director ensures the Credentialing and Privileging Manager reports directly to the Chief of Staff.

The Director ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation the same calendar day, when logistically feasible and clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients with a positive suicide risk screen.

The Chief of Staff ensures the Medical Executive Council reviews results of professional practice evaluations.

The Chief of Staff ensures practitioners with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges complete licensed independent practitioners’ professional practice evaluations.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures the Veterans Integrated Service Network Chief Medical Officer provides oversight of the medical center’s privileging process.

The Medical Center Director ensures the Comprehensive Environment of Care Coordinator or designee schedules environment of care inspections and staff complete and document them at the required frequency.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff keep patient care areas clean and safe.

The Medical Center Director ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation the same calendar day, when logistically feasible and clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients with a positive suicide risk screen.

The Director ensures staff complete individual root cause analyses for all adverse patient safety events with an actual or potential safety assessment code score of 3.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs maintain sufficient data for licensed independent practitioners’ Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.

The Chief of Staff ensures practitioners with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges complete Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.

The Chief of Staff ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation following a patient’s positive suicide risk screen.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff complete a minimum of eight patient safety analyses each year.

The Chief of Staff ensures practitioners with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges complete Focused and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs complete licensed independent practitioners’ Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations on a regular basis.

The Medical Center Director ensures the suicide prevention coordinators report suicide-related events monthly to mental health leaders and quality management staff.

The Medical Center Director ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same day as a patient’s positive suicide risk screen in all ambulatory care settings.

The Associate Director ensures staff keep areas used by patients clean and orderly.

The Associate Director ensures staff store clean and dirty equipment and supplies separately.

The Associate Director ensures staff place all examination tables with the foot facing away from the door.

The Director ensures the Suicide Prevention Coordinator reports suicide-related events monthly to mental health leaders and quality management staff.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs use service-specific criteria in the professional practice evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.

The Chief of Staff ensures practitioners with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges complete professional practice evaluations.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures the Comprehensive Environment of Care Coordinator schedules, and staff complete and document, environment of care inspections at the required frequency.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures staff document police response times to panic alarm testing in the mental health inpatient unit.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures appropriate personnel install over-the-door alarms for sleeping room doors in the mental health inpatient unit.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures staff follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for testing over-the-door alarms on sleeping room doors in the mental health inpatient unit.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures staff maintain a safe environment in the mental health inpatient unit.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures staff keep patient care areas safe and clean.

The Chief of Staff ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same calendar day as a positive suicide risk screen, when logistically feasible and clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients.

The Chief of Staff ensures the Suicide Prevention Coordinator conducts, tracks, and reports a minimum of five suicide prevention outreach activities monthly.

The Montana VA Health Care System Medical Center Director ensures that all providers, including the Chief of Staff, practice within their approved privileges.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures review of Veterans Health Administration maternity care directives to determine if more specific guidance on the limitations of pregnancy care at VA facilities is necessary to ensure that pregnant patients receive maternity care according to evidence-based practice standards, and ensures guidance is updated as warranted.

The Montana VA Health Care System Medical Center Director ensures adherence to Veterans Health Administration and facility policies for pregnancy care.

The Montana VA Health Care System Medical Center Director ensures subject matter expert review of endometrial ablation procedures performed by the facility Chief of Staff to determine whether standards of care were followed for clinical indications, patient selection, and preoperative evaluation for patients who underwent endometrial ablation, and determine whether clinical disclosures or additional patient follow-up is indicated.

The Rocky Mountain Network Director ensures processes are in place to support facilities’ external review process for ongoing professional practice evaluations in cases requiring external review by Veterans Health Administration policy and monitors compliance.

The Montana VA Health Care System Medical Center Director ensures adherence to all VHA and facility policies pertaining to privileging and re-privileging of providers including the Chief of Staff.

The Montana VA Health Care System Medical Center Director conducts a comprehensive review of the facility ongoing professional practice evaluation processes to ensure compliance with Veterans Health Administration and facility policy, and takes action as warranted.

The Rocky Mountain Network Director ensures a process is in place to monitor for timely completion of administrative actions for members of facility executive leadership team when appropriate, identifies noncompliance, and takes action as warranted.

The Rocky Mountain Network Director conducts a review of the state licensing board reporting processes at the facility to ensure compliance with Veterans Health Administration policy, identifies noncompliance, and takes action as warranted.

The Montana VA Health Care System Medical Center Director considers subject matter expert findings from the retrospective review of care provided by the Chief of Staff, determines whether clinical or institutional disclosures or additional patient follow-up is indicated, and takes action as warranted.