All Reports

The Medical Center Director ensures the Suicide Prevention Coordinator conducts at least five outreach activities each month.

The Chief of Staff ensures the Peer Review Committee recommends improvement actions for all peer reviews.

The Director ensures staff conduct environment of care inspections in patient care areas at least twice per fiscal year.

The Associate Director ensures staff maintain all medical equipment in accordance with manufacturers’ recommendations or use an alternative maintenance program that does not reduce the safety of the equipment.

The Chief of Staff ensures medications transported by the pneumatic tube system are only accessible by approved individuals.

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

The Director ensures staff check over-the-door alarms in mental health inpatient units with corridor doors to patient sleeping rooms according to the manufacturer’s guidelines.

The Director ensures all entrances into mental health inpatient units have a sally port.

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

The Medical Center Director ensures staff document VA police response times to panic alarm testing in the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit

The Medical Center Director ensures staff follow the manufacturer’s guidelines for checking over-the-door alarms for patient sleeping rooms in the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit.

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

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

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 Under Secretary for Health ensures Veterans Health Administration prescribers establish a diagnosis based on a complete and documented assessment prior to initiation of a stimulant to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures Veterans Health Administration prescribers assess risks and contraindications associated with stimulant prescribing.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates the prescription drug monitoring program query adherence goal for initial stimulant prescribing and takes action as warranted.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates the adequacy of the referral processes related to complex mental health disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and takes action as warranted.

The Under Secretary for Health considers establishing policy and clinical practice guidance related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnostic assessment and treatment with a stimulant and takes action as warranted.

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 with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges complete licensed independent practitioners’ Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.

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

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 ambulatory care settings.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs regularly complete Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations for each licensed independent practitioner.

The Chief of Staff ensures the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff reviews Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data and documents its review prior to recommending licensed independent practitioners’ ongoing privileges to the Director.

The Director ensures staff complete environment of care inspections at the required frequency.

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

The Chief of Staff ensures medical staff review and document licensed independent practitioners’ Focused Professional Practice Evaluation results and report them to the Medical Executive Board.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs monitor licensed independent practitioners’ performance by regularly conducting Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff conduct environment of care inspections in patient care areas at the required frequency.

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

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

The Deputy Secretary establishes ongoing monitors to ensure that scheduling procedures in the new electronic health record are functioning in accordance with Veterans Health Administration requirements.

The Under Secretary for Health evaluates minimum scheduling effort requirements for mental health appointments and takes action to ensure the implementation of standardized policy and procedures in the best interest of patient care.

The VA Central Ohio Healthcare System Medical Center Director conducts a full review of the care of the patient provided by the nurse practitioner and psychologist 1, and the supervisory psychologist’s oversight, consults with Human Resources and General Counsel Offices, and takes actions as warranted.

The VA Central Ohio Healthcare System Medical Center Director ensures compliance with the Caring Communication Program including the initiation and cessation of caring communications as required.

The Under Secretary for Health considers establishing written guidance related to documentation, leaders’ review, follow-up actions, and tracking of Lessons Learned in root cause analyses.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs incorporate service-specific criteria in licensed independent practitioners’ Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.

The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs regularly monitor licensed independent practitioners’ performance through Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.

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

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