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Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center, Spokane, Washington
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18-01144-24

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/3/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures the interdisciplinary group or committee that reviews utilization management data includes representatives from social work and the Chief Business Office revenue utilization review and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/14/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations utilize assessments by providers with similar training and privileges and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/14/2019
The Associate Director ensures managers clearly mark and securely store medical biohazardous waste and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/14/2019
The Associate Director ensures the Police and Security Operations document response time to panic alarm testing at the locked mental health unit and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/14/2019
The Associate Director ensures that the Emergency Management Plan is reviewed annually and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/14/2019
The Facility Director ensures that the Quality Council maintains oversight of all geriatric evaluation program performance improvement activities and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/6/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that all registered nurses involved in managing central lines receive the required central line-associated bloodstream infection prevention education and monitors compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, North Las Vegas, Nevada
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18-01145-26

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/23/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers initiate Focused Professional Practice Evaluations that include clearly delineated timeframes and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/23/2019
The Associate Director ensures the VA Police regularly test panic alarms at the Northwest Las Vegas VA Clinic and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/23/2019
The Associate Director ensures the VA Police test panic alarms and document response time to alarm testing in the locked mental health unit and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2020
The Facility Director ensures that all deficiencies identified on the Annual Physical Security Survey are addressed and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/15/2019
The Facility Director ensures controlled substance monthly inspection dates are randomly selected to avoid distinguishable patterns and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/15/2019
The Facility Director ensures that controlled substances inspectors perform reconciliation of controlled substance refills to automated dispensing cabinets in patient care areas and returns to pharmacy stock and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/15/2019
The Facility Director ensures that controlled substances inspectors complete routine monthly controlled substance inspections and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/17/2019
The Facility Director ensures that Geriatrics and Extended Care Service leaders conduct and report geriatric evaluation program performance improvement activities to an appropriate leadership board and monitors compliance.
VA’s Oversight of State Approving Agency Program Monitoring for Post-9/11 GI Bill Students
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16-00862-179

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No. 1
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits negotiates an amendment to State Approving Agency contracts to clarify requirements for program approvals and require, subject to the availability of resources, quarterly samples and reviews and evaluations of supporting documentation for State Approving Agency approvals to ensure approved programs meet Title 38 of the United States Code requirements.
No. 2
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits negotiates amendments to State Approving Agency contracts that, subject to available resources, require the State Approving Agencies to periodically reapprove programs and evaluate program changes and other operational changes, such as advertisement practices, that may affect a program’s continued eligibility and compliance with Title 38 of the United States Code.
No. 3
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 4/2/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits refers schools identified during the audit with potentially erroneous, deceptive, or misleading advertising practices to the Federal Trade Commission for it to decide whether any further reviews or actions are needed.
No. 4
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits revises and strengthens compliance surveys to improve the assessment of program eligibility and compliance survey quality reviews to include the review of supporting documentation and an independent assessment of the quality of the completed compliance surveys.
No. 5
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits negotiates an amendment to the State Approving Agency contracts to establish quality assurance metrics and ensure the Veterans Benefits Administration collects and uses quality assurance data from its reviews of the State Approving Agencies’ approvals, monitoring, and compliance surveys in its annual evaluations of the State Approving Agencies.
No. 6
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits assesses whether funding for State Approving Agencies is sufficient to ensure the adequate review, approval, and monitoring of programs, in conjunction with the establishment of a contract to update the State Approving Agency funding allocation model.
Total Monetary Impact of All Recommendations
Open: $ 0.00
Closed: $ 2,300,000,000.00
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas
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18-01137-15

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures Service Chiefs include clearly delineated timeframes in practitioners’ Focused Professional Practice Evaluation competency reviews and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures Service Chiefs present the results of completed Focused Professional Practice Evaluations to the Medical Staff Executive Council to recommend continuing the initially granted privileges and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2020
The Chief of Staff ensures Service Chiefs include service-specific data in Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2020
The Chief of Staff ensures that the Chief, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, includes the required pathology-specific criteria, as applicable, in pathology practitioners’ Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/30/2019
The Associate Director ensures personal protective equipment is readily accessible and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2019
The Assistant Director–Waco ensures that a clean environment is maintained throughout the Facility and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2019
The Associate Director and Assistant Director–Austin ensure that prescribed sleep apnea equipment is furnished timely to patients and monitor compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/30/2019
The Associate Director ensures VA Police and Security Service regularly test panic alarms and take follow-up actions for identified deficiencies at the Austin Community Based Outpatient Clinic and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/30/2019
The Associate Director ensures VA Police and Security Service regularly test panic alarms and take follow-up actions for identified deficiencies at the Waco campus locked mental health unit and monitors compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2019
The Assistant Director–Waco ensures that the Emergency Operations Plan is reviewed annually by the Emergency Management Committee and approved by executive leadership and monitors compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2020
The Facility Director ensures that the Controlled Substance Coordinator completes monthly summary of findings and quarterly trend reports and monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/30/2019
The Facility Director ensures that Controlled Substances Inspectors are appointed in writing prior to performing inspector duties and monitors compliance.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2020
The Facility Director ensures that Controlled Substances Inspectors complete routine monthly controlled substances inspections and monitors compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2020
The Facility Director ensures that Controlled Substances Inspectors verify drugs held for destruction during monthly inspections at the Waco inpatient pharmacy and monitors compliance.
No. 15
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2020
The Facility Director ensures Controlled Substances Inspectors complete pharmacy prescription pad inventories during monthly pharmacy inspections at the Waco outpatient pharmacy and monitors compliance.
No. 16
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/30/2020
The Facility Director ensures that Controlled Substances Inspectors verify evidence of written prescriptions for non-electronic controlled substance orders during monthly area inspections at the Temple outpatient pharmacy and monitors compliance.
No. 17
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures providers or designees communicate mammogram results to patients and monitors compliance.
No. 18
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/3/2019
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that all registered nurses involved in managing central lines receive the required central line-associated bloodstream infection prevention education and monitors compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA Maine Healthcare System, Augusta, Maine
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18-01152-14

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/27/2019
The Facility Director ensures the Patient Safety Manager or designee provides feedback about root cause analysis actions to the reporting individuals or departments and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/27/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that the Clinical Executive Board reviews and evaluates licensed independent practitioners’ initial and re-privileging requests prior to making recommendations to the Facility Director and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/9/2020
The Chief of Staff ensures that clinical managers complete all required elements for Focused Professional Practice Evaluations for the determination of practitioners’ privileges and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/23/2020
The Chief of Staff ensures that clinical managers consistently collect and review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/2/2019
The Associate Director ensures all staff are educated on how to access safety data sheet information and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/2/2019
The Facility Director ensures that Controlled Substance Inspectors conduct monthly controlled substance inspections and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/27/2019
The Associate Director ensures that geriatric evaluation performance improvement activities are reviewed by a Facility leadership board and monitors compliance.
Patient and Radiation Safety Concerns at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan
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18-02210-19

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2019
The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Director ensures that radiologic equipment receives the required inspection and testing by a qualified medical physicist, and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2019
The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Director ensures providers and radiology technicians complete fluoroscopy training as required, and monitors for compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/12/2019
The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Director ensures clinical privileges are granted in accordance with policy, and monitors for compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/15/2019
The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Director ensures that the radiology department conform to radiation safety standards as outlined through the National Health Physics Program and fully address any recommendations and violations, and monitors to completion.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/15/2019
The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Radiation Safety Committee minutes reflect actions taken to address National Health Physics Program recommendations and violations, and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/15/2019
The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Radiation Safety Officer and Radiation Safety Committee initiate and utilize the Veterans Health Administration required tracking matrix to track unresolved action items to completion, and monitors compliance.
Accuracy of Claims Involving Service-Connected Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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18-00031-05

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No. 1
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 4/13/2020
The Under Secretary for Benefits implements a plan to improve the decisions and additional reviews of claims involving service-connected Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and monitors these claims to ensure staff demonstrate proficiency.
No. 2
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 1/10/2020
The Under Secretary for Benefits implements a plan to ensure veterans with service-connected Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis receive notice regarding additional special monthly compensation benefits that may be available.
Total Monetary Impact of All Recommendations
Open: $ 0.00
Closed: $ 13,800,000.00
Alleged Misuse of Government-Owned Vehicles at the Sacramento VA Medical Center, California
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17-04127-266

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2018
The VA Sierra Pacific Network Director confers with the Offices of General Counsel,Human Resources, and Accountability and Whistleblower Protection to determine theappropriate administrative action to take, if any, against Dr. Erckenbrack.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2018
The VA Sierra Pacific Network Director confers with the Offices of General Counsel,Human Resources, and Accountability and Whistleblower Protection to determine theappropriate administrative action to take, if any, against the Chief of LogisticsManagement Service.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/8/2018
The VA Sierra Pacific Network Director confers with the Office of General Counsel andthe Director of the VA Northern California Health Care System to ensure that controlsare in place to oversee proper implementation by the Health Care System of federal law,regulations, and VA policy regarding the use of government-owned vehicles.
Alleged Concerns in Sterile Processing Services at the New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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17-04593-10

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/23/2019
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director ensures that Sterile Processing Services staff adhere to the missing instrument procedures for sterile sets as required by Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/6/2020
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director ensures that Sterile Processing Services staff adhere to the requirements for verification of items in sterile sets as required by Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/23/2019
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director evaluates patient safety reporting systems to ensure that all events are captured in WebSPOT as required by Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/23/2019
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director ensures that all Sterile Processing Services staff, including contract staff, complete training as required by Veterans Health Administration Directive 1116 (2).
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/11/2019
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director verifies that Sterile Processing Services managers maintain an accurate list for reusable medical equipment and copies of manufacturers’ instructions as required by Veterans Health Administration policy and the April 2017 Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management memorandum.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/11/2019
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director ensures that Sterile Processing Services maintain updated and readily accessible standard operating procedures for all instruments and equipment within Sterile Processing Services in accordance with Veterans Health Administration policy.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/11/2019
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director ensures that competency assessments for all Sterile Processing Services staff, including contract staff, are conducted and documented as required by Veterans Health Administration Directive 1116 (2).
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/9/2019
The New Mexico VA Health Care System Director reviews the contract related to Sterile Processing Services technicians to determine if requirements for training and certification are consistent with Veterans Health Administration Directive 1116 (2) and takes action as necessary.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/11/2019
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director ensures that the New Mexico VA Health Care System Director implements action items from previous external Sterile Processing Services inspection reviews.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/11/2019
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director oversees implementation of this report’s recommendations that are directed to the New Mexico VA Health Care System Director.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/6/2020
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 Director reviews the New Mexico VA Health Care System’s Sterile Processing Services risk assessment to determine if identified high-risk items and areas are in alignment with guidance from the Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management and takes action as necessary.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 4/6/2020
The Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 implements a process that identifies instances when independent verification by Veterans Integrated Service Network staff is necessary to ensure that the Facility implements action plans related to Sterile Processing Services recommendations.
Emergency Cache Program: Ineffective Management Impairs Mission Readiness
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18-01496-301

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2020
The Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, should develop requirements for medical facilities with emergency caches to perform at least annually a wall-to-wall inventory of all cache drugs and supplies, and develop processes to (1) label all expired or excess drugs that are purposefully maintained to respond to drug shortages or for the purposes of Shelf Life Extension testing, and (2) remove and rectify cases of other expired, missing, or excess drugs.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2020
The Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, should conduct an assessment to determine if the cost saving benefits of the Shelf Life Extension Program outweigh the risks expired drugs pose to the emergency cache’s mission and to take corrective action as appropriate.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2019
The Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, should improve emergency cache inventory management processes to ensure emergency cache national inventory data sorted by location is reliable and accurately identifies the expiration dates of all cache contents, including Shelf Life Extension Program drugs, and that this information is electronically accessible to each facility.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2020
The Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, should initiate steps to update and reissue the Veterans Health Administration directives specifying oversight responsibilities for the Emergency Cache Program with a requirement for inventory to be timely rotated into the emergency cache after it is received.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2020
The Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, should assess whether the Emergency Cache Program is properly aligned within VA and coordinate with other VA offices as necessary to determine the appropriate roles and responsibilities by program office, and then review, update, and reissue Emergency Cache Program requirements to include (1) robust annual cache inspection and activation exercise requirements, (2) processes to ensure cache inspection and activation requirements are met, (3) processes to ensure that violations identified during annual cache inspections are timely addressed, and (4) specific accountability measures for the program offices and local facility personnel responsible for program oversight.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2019
The Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, should conduct a comprehensive assessment of the cache inventory to identify drugs and supplies that can be readily used in medical facilities’ general operations and develop a mechanism to monitor and ensure medical facilities are maximizing the use of these items before they expire.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/15/2020
The Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, should initiate steps to update and reissue the Veterans Health Administration directives specifying oversight responsibilities for the Emergency Cache Program to reflect the Office of Public Health’s reorganization and reassign responsibilities as needed.
Total Monetary Impact of All Recommendations
Open: $ 0.00
Closed: $ 34,263,584.00
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center, Clarksburg, West Virginia
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18-01136-313

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/27/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/11/2019
The Facility Director ensures the interdisciplinary group or committee that reviews utilization management data includes required representatives and meets regularly and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/26/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers consistently collect and review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/26/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures the Medical Executive Council uses and documents the use of the results of Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations in the determination of whether to recommend continuation of licensed independent practitioners’ privileges and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/24/2018
The Associate Director ensures that damaged furniture is repaired or removed from service and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/27/2019
The Associate Director ensures weekly inspections of the emergency power supply system are performed and documented and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/27/2019
The Facility Director ensures that controlled substance inspectors perform reconciliation of controlled substance dispensing from the pharmacy to automated dispensing cabinets and returns to pharmacy stock during monthly area inspections and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/27/2019
The Facility Director ensures that controlled substance inspectors verify controlled substance orders during monthly area inspections and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/26/2019
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that all staff involved in inserting and managing central lines receive the required central line-associated bloodstream infection and infection prevention education and monitors compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts
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17-05570-06

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/4/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that peer reviewers consistently use at least one of the important aspects of care to evaluate peer review findings and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/26/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that Service Chiefs initiate and complete Focused Professional Practice Evaluations for newly hired licensed independent providers and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/25/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations include the review of service-specific practitioner data and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/9/2020
The Chief of Staff ensures that Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations of pathology practitioners include required pathology-specific criteria, as appropriate, and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/24/2018
The Deputy Director ensures that clean and dirty equipment is stored separately and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/24/2018
The Deputy Director ensures that bottom shelves in equipment storage areas are solid and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/24/2018
The Facility Director ensures that deficiencies identified on the annual physical security survey are addressed and monitors compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Charles George VA Medical Center, Asheville, North Carolina
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18-01140-312

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/16/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the interdisciplinary group or committee that reviews utilization management data includes representatives from the Chief Business Office Revenue–Utilization Review and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/31/2019
The Facility Director ensures that the Patient Safety Manager or designee provides feedback to employees or departments who submit patient safety incidents that result in root cause analysis and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/12/2019
The Director ensures that managers consistently implement improvement actions arising from peer review and root cause analysis activities and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/26/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that the Medical Staff Executive Council minutes consistently reflect the documents reviewed and the rationale to recommend approval of clinical privileges for license independent practitioners and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/18/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that clinical managers initiate and complete Focused and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations for the determination of providers’ privileges and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 10/16/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that mammogram results are linked to radiology orders and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 10/16/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that mammogram results are communicated to ordering providers and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 10/16/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures providers or designees communicate mammogram results to patients and monitors compliance.
Timeliness of Final Competency Determinations
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17-05535-292

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 8/22/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits ensures cases requiring final competency determinations are entered into the Beneficiary Fiduciary Field System as soon as the cases are established in the Veterans Benefits Management System.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 5/15/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits reminds Veterans Benefits Administration staff of their responsibility to notify Fiduciary Hubs when waivers are received of the due process notification period for cases with proposed incompetency, and implements a plan to ensure compliance.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 8/22/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits implements a plan to ensure the processing of final competency determinations under the jurisdiction of the Fiduciary Hubs meet Veterans Benefits Administration’s established timeliness standard.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 6/3/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits implements a plan to prioritize the processing of final competency determinations under the jurisdiction of Veterans Service Centers and Pension Management Centers.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 3/7/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits ensures the National Work Queue distributes final competency determinations according to the Veterans Benefits Administration policy for processing these cases.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 5/15/2019
The Under Secretary for Benefits implements a plan to ensure Fiduciary Hub staff who complete final competency determinations have access to documents containing federal taxpayer information in the Legacy Content Manager.
VA’s Management of Land Use Under the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016
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18-00474-300

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 3/18/2026

The Principal Executive Director, Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction and the Acting Under Secretary for Health in conjunction with the Director, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System implement a plan that puts the West LA campus in compliance with the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016, the Draft Master Plan, and other federal laws, including reasonable time periods to correct deficiencies noted in this report.

No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA),Acquisitions, Logistics, and Construction (OALC)
Closure Date: 1/25/2022
The Principal Executive Director, Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction and the Acting Under Secretary for Health in conjunction with the Director, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System ensure all non-VA entities operating on the West LA campus with expired or undocumented land use agreements establish new agreements compliant with the West Los Angeles Leasing Act.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 6/25/2021
The Acting Under Secretary for Health in conjunction with the Director, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System create a process to allow the Veterans Community Oversight and Engagement Board an opportunity to provide input to the executive leadership on West LA campus land use.
No. 4
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to Acquisitions, Logistics, and Construction (OALC)
Closure Date: 12/17/2019
The Principal Executive Director, Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction create documented policies and procedures for out leases and Revocable Licenses to govern their use, management, and pricing to ensure fair value is received and negotiations are documented.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 9/3/2020
The Acting Under Secretary for Health in conjunction with the Director, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System ensure VA’s Capital Asset Inventory accurately reflects all land use agreements six months or longer on West LA campus.
Quality of Care Concerns Regarding a Patient Who had Cardiac Surgery at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Michigan
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17-04875-308

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 5/7/2019
The Veterans Integrated System Network 10 Director ensures the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Director complies with Veterans Health Administration policies regarding requirements for root cause analysis, peer review, and institutional disclosure.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 5/7/2019
The VA Ann Arbor Healthcare Facility Director applies quality management processes to evaluate modifications made by the anesthesiologist and surgeon for cardiothoracic surgeries and determines if modifications should be implemented system-wide.
Quality of Care Concerns in the Hemodialysis Unit at the Wilmington VA Medical Center, Delaware
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17-03676-307

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that Hemodialysis Unit providers and staff are educated on laboratory and medication order urgency policy/processes and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 8/12/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that Facility leaders develop and implement a nursing policy that addresses verbal orders and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that Hemodialysis Unit providers receive training on the use of verbal orders including the use of verbal orders only in emergencies within the guidelines presented in the Facility bylaws and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director reviews Hemodialysis Unit staff access to and administration of medications to patients who do not have a medication order or the order has expired and takes actions as necessary.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that a process is developed to notify Hemodialysis Unit staff of changes in hemodialysis orders and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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Closure Date: 4/29/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Hemodialysis Unit managers adopt and provide documentation programs that will enable accuracy and efficiency in record keeping and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 10/28/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Code Blue members utilize the Code Blue Flow Sheet and that Rapid Response and Code Blue events are documented and presented monthly to the Facility’s Health Care Delivery Council.
No. 8
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Closure Date: 4/29/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Education Department conducts unannounced mock code training twice a year in the Hemodialysis Unit with debriefings and monitors improvement and compliance.
No. 9
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Closure Date: 4/29/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director resolves the conflict between Hemodialysis Unit staff to provide a work place environment where staff collaborates to reduce the risk of adverse patient outcomes.
No. 10
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director evaluates the Facility’s education and training program to ensure that Safety Assessment Code assignments and Root Cause Analyses are conducted in accordance with Veterans Health Administration Handbook 1050.01, National Patient Safety Improvement.
No. 11
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director continues efforts to recruit and hire for Hemodialysis Unit staff vacancies, and ensures that, until optimal staffing is achieved, alternate methods are consistently available to meet patient care needs.
No. 12
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Chief of Medicine establishes a safe discharge process for hemodialysis patients including those who receive not routinely scheduled medications during hemodialysis and monitors compliance.
No. 13
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures Facility policies are consistent with Veterans Health Administration Handbook 1042.01, Criteria and Standards for VA Dialysis Programs, and Hemodialysis Unit providers and staff adhere to the policies.
No. 14
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Closure Date: 2/24/2019
The Wilmington VA Medical Center Director ensures that the Facility Police Department act in alignment with VA Directive 0730 and Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations and takes actions as appropriate.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, North Chicago, Illinois
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18-01143-302

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 2/8/2019
The Chief Medical Executive ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 5/6/2019
The Facility Director ensures all required members consistently participate in the interdisciplinary group that reviews utilization management data and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/6/2019
The Chief Medical Executive ensures that the Credentialing and Privileging Subcommittee consistently review Focus Professional Practice Evaluations in the granting of continued privileges and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/8/2019
The Associate Director for Facility Support ensures that a safe and clean environment is maintained throughout the Facility and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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Closure Date: 8/29/2019
The Facility Director ensures that deficiencies identified on the annual physical security survey are addressed and monitors compliance.
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