All Reports

Audit of Interior Design and Furnishing Contract Mismanagement by Network Contracting Office 21
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16-00409-64

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/6/2018
The OIG recommended Service Area Office West Executive Director ensure the Network Contracting Office 21 Director implements the required integrated oversight process to perform the required pre-award contract reviews to ensure contracting officers’ compliance with Federal and VA acquisition regulations prior to contract award.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/6/2018
The OIG recommended the Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 Director consult with the appropriate VA financial and legal officials to determine steps the Northern California Health Care System Director should take to remedy the violation of the bona fide needs rule.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/20/2018
The OIG recommended the Service Area Office West Executive Directortake steps to ensure the Network Contracting Office 21 Director developand implement processes to effectively monitor the status of contractsand ensure contracting officers appropriately modify the contracts orclose them out in accordance with contract terms and the FederalAcquisition Regulation.
Total Monetary Impact of All Recommendations
Open: $ 0.00
Closed: $ 3,300,000.00
Healthcare Inspection—Quality of Care and Patient Safety Concerns in the Community Living Center, James A. Haley VA Hospital, Tampa, Florida
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17-01491-112

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 5/7/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that Community Living Center and Emergency Department staff understand and comply with policies for communication about residents requiring evaluation and treatment.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/7/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that Community Living Center leaders develop a system to ensure fall precautions identified in the Falls Assessment are consistently reflected in the Individual Care Plan and implemented accordingly, and that staff are held accountable.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/1/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure the availability and functionality of fall prevention and safety devices such as hip protectors and chair alarms.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/7/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that Community Living Center leaders follow through on efforts to determine staff knowledge deficits related to fall prevention and institute training and process improvements.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/1/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure that Community Living Center leaders conduct appropriate reviews and implement required actions in cases of suspected abuse or neglect.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/1/2018
We recommended that the Facility Director ensure an adequate nurse staffing mix to meet the acuity levels and needs of the Community Living Center’s residents.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center, Walla Walla, Washington
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17-01746-116

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/10/2018
The Facility Director ensures that a senior-level committee is established and responsible for key Quality, Safety, and Value functions.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/10/2018
The Facility Director ensures the Patient Safety Manager completes the required minimum of eight root cause analyses each fiscal year and monitors the manager’s compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that anticoagulation management program quality assurance data are analyzed and reported to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and monitors program managers’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/10/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently provide specific education to patients with newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and monitors clinicians' compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/10/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently obtain and document all required laboratory tests prior to initiating anticoagulant medications and monitors clinicians' compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures all required elements specific to anticoagulation management are included in competency assessments for employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/6/2018
The Associate Director ensures environment of care inspections are conducted at the required frequency and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/10/2018
The Associate Director ensures core team members consistently participate in environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/6/2018
The Chief of Staff and the Nurse Executive ensure that the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee includes representation by all required disciplines and monitor compliance
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/6/2018
The Nurse Executive ensures social workers conduct cyclical clinical visits with the frequency required by Veterans Health Administration policy and monitors social workers’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Hampton VA Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia
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17-01758-104

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/18/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that clinical managers communicate to the Peer Review Committee all completions of individual improvement actions and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data with the frequency required by facility policy and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Chief of Staff requires clinicians to ensure patients with newly prescribed warfarin have international normalized ratio measurements taken within 7 days of warfarin initiation, and monitor compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Chief of Staff requires clinical managers to complete competency assessments annually for employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/10/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently include identification of the receiving provider in transfer documentation and monitors the clinicians’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures all areas of the facility are inspected at the required frequency and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures core team members consistently attend environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures the Chesapeake community based outpatient clinic panic alarms are tested monthly and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures storage carts and shelves at the Chesapeake Community Based Outpatient Clinic have solid bottom shelves and monitors compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures locked mental health unit panic alarm testing includes documentation of VA Police response time and monitors compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures that adequate security surveillance is provided through functional and regularly tested equipment and monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members receive annual training for identification and correction of environmental hazards and proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist and monitors compliance.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures providers include a history of previous adverse experience with sedation and anesthesia in the history and physical and/or pre-sedation assessment and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that physicians who perform or assist with moderate sedation procedures receive training for the provision of moderate sedation care prior to being re-privileged and that training is documented and monitors compliance with training and documentation.
No. 15
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Facility Director ensures that the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee meets at least quarterly, includes representatives from all required disciplines, and integrates processes into the facility’s quality improvement program with documentation of these processes in the facility’s executive-level committee meeting minutes and monitors compliance.
No. 16
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Review Team completes annual reviews within the required timeframe and submits exclusionary criteria exemption requests when a community nursing home meets the threshold of four or more deficiencies and monitors the team’s compliance.
No. 17
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures social workers and registered nurses conduct and document cyclical clinical visits with the frequency required by Veterans Health Administration policy for community nursing home oversight and monitors social workers’ and registered nurses’ compliance.
No. 18
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures that Domiciliary Care for Homeless Veterans Program, general domiciliary, and Substance Abuse and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program employees conduct and document daily resident room inspections for unsecured medications and monitors employees’ compliance.
No. 19
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/25/2018
The Associate Director ensures that adequate security surveillance is provided through functional and regularly tested equipment and monitors compliance.
Healthcare Inspection - Review of Montana Board of Psychologists Complaint and Assessment of VA Protocols for Traumatic Brain Injury Compensation and Pension Examinations
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15-01580-108

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA),Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 7/6/2018
We recommended that the Executive in Charge, Office of the Under Secretary for Health and Acting Under Secretary for Benefits convene experts to develop a plan to ensure that personnel performing the traumatic brain injury Compensation and Pension examination have comprehensive training on the evaluation of traumatic brain injury, including the assessment and evaluation of cognitive disorders.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA),Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 7/6/2018
We recommended that the Executive in Charge, Office of the Under Secretary for Health and Acting Under Secretary for Benefits convene experts to develop a plan to develop requirements for documentation of the traumatic brain injury Compensation and Pension examination process, including the basis for determinations of cognitive impairment and other residuals of traumatic brain injury.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA),Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)
Closure Date: 5/9/2018
We recommended that the Executive in Charge, Office of the Under Secretary for Health and Acting Under Secretary for Benefits convene experts to develop a plan to consider whether to provide disability ratings to veterans with claims arising from cognitive issues based upon their clinical signs and symptoms, not primarily based upon the diagnosis or cause of their cognitive deficits (that is. traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder).
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, California
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17-01750-97

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures peer reviewers consistently use at least one of the important aspects of care to evaluate peer review findings and monitors reviewers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data every 6 months and monitors the service chiefs’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures pharmacy managers implement an anticoagulation management standard operating procedure that contains all elements required by the Veterans Health Administration.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently obtain all required laboratory tests prior to initiating anticoagulant medications and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers include all required elements in competency assessments for employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently include patient or surrogate informed consent in transfer documentation and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/17/2018
The Associate Directors ensure required team members participate on environment of care rounds and monitor compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Associate Director ensures VA Police conduct required testing of the locked mental health unit security surveillance television system and monitors VA Police compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/17/2018
The Associate Director ensures all locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members complete the required training on identification and correction of environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures providers include the history of previous experience with sedation and anesthesia in the history and physical exams and/or pre-sedation assessments and monitors compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical teams use a checklist that includes all required elements to conduct and document timeouts prior to moderate sedation procedures and monitors the teams’ compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Review Team completes required annual reviews and monitors the team’s compliance.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures social workers and registered nurses conduct cyclical clinical visits with the frequency required and monitors social workers’ and registered nurses’ compliance.
Administrative Investigation – VA Secretary and Delegation Travel to Europe
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17-05909-106

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No. 1
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to Office of the Secretary (SVA)
Closure Date: 5/14/2018
Secretary Shulkin reimburses the $4,312 paid by VA to cover Dr. Bari’s travel costs.
No. 2
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to Office of the Secretary (SVA)
Closure Date: 5/14/2018
Secretary Shulkin consults with the Office of General Counsel to determine the value of the Wimbledon tickets; grounds pass; and any food, parking, and other tangible benefits Ms. Gosling provided in connection with Wimbledon and reimburse that amount to her. If Ms. Gosling declines to accept reimbursement, Secretary Shulkin reimburses such amount to the US Treasury.
No. 3
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to Office of the Secretary (SVA)
Closure Date: 5/14/2018
The Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs confers with the Offices of General Counsel, Human Resources, and Accountability and Whistleblower Protection to determine the appropriate administrative action to take, if any, against Ms. Wright Simpson and any other individuals associated with the Europe trip.
No. 4
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to Office of the Secretary (SVA)
Closure Date: 5/16/2018
The Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs ensures that a thorough audit is conducted of the expense vouchers, travel authorizations, and the time and attendance records for all travelers on the Europe trip. Any overpayments should be reimbursed to VA by the traveler and any required leave adjustments should be made. Detailed results of the audits, including supporting documentation, shall be provided to the Office of Inspector General no later than thirty days following the publication of this report.
No. 5
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to Office of the Secretary (SVA)
Closure Date: 5/14/2018
The Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs ensures that the Office of General Counsel (i) reviews and enhances the training provided to staff on travel planning, approvals, and the solicitation or acceptance of gifts; and (ii) provides refresher training on these topics to all travelers on the Europe trip as well as all staff involved in the planning and implementation of the trip.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, Florida
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17-01756-86

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data every 6 months and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/18/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/18/2018
The Facility Director ensures patient transfer data for transfers out of the facility are collected, analyzed, and reported to an identified quality oversight committee and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Associate Director ensures all areas of the facility are inspected at the required frequency and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/18/2019
The Associate Director ensures core team members consistently participate in environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/18/2018
The Associate Director ensures locked mental health unit panic alarm testing documentation includes VA Police response time and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that providers notify patients of changes in who is performing the moderate sedation procedure and document this in the electronic health record, and the Chief of Staff monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/18/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee meets at least quarterly, includes representation by all required disciplines, and demonstrates integration with the facility quality improvement program, and the Chief of Staff monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Review Team completes the required annual reviews for the community nursing homes and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/2/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures social workers and registered nurses conduct and document cyclical clinical visits with the frequency required by Veterans Health Administration and monitors compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/18/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that Domiciliary Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program employees in units 5A and 5D conduct and document daily resident room inspections for unsecured medications and monitors compliance.
Healthcare Inspection—Medical Foster Home Program Concerns, Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center, Columbus, Ohio
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17-03860-100

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/1/2018
The Under Secretary for Health amends Medical Foster Home policy to include processes for reporting Medical Foster Home revocations to appropriate authorities to ensure current and future resident safety.
Review of Excessive Procurement Costs at VHA’s Rural Outreach Clinic in Laughlin, Nevada
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16-02695-51

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/8/2018
The OIG recommended the Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, ensure required oversight reviews are conducted and documented prior to the award of leases, contracting officers perform acquisitions in accordance with Department of Veterans Affairs and Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements, and awarded lease rates are in the best interest of the government.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/7/2018
The OIG recommended the Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, ensure the lease for the Laughlin Rural Outreach Clinicis is reevaluated to determine the financial advantages and disadvantages of renegotiating the terms of the contract to obtain a Fair Rental Value commensurate with the Laughlin Nevada area.
Total Monetary Impact of All Recommendations
Open: $ 0.00
Closed: $ 290,010.00
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA Black Hills Health Care System, Fort Meade, South Dakota
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17-01745-96

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/3/2019
The Facility Director ensures inter-facility patient transfer data are analyzed and reported to a quality oversight committee as part of the facility’s quality management program and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/9/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members participate in environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/3/2019
The Associate Director ensures the locked mental health unit’s seclusion room bed is secured to the floor.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/9/2018
The Associate Director ensures that locked mental health unit employees and members of the Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team complete the required training for the identification and correction of environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and the Associate Director monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/21/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that providers assess for patients’ previous adverse experiences with sedation or anesthesia prior to performing moderate sedation procedures and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/9/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that clinical team members conduct timeouts using a checklist with all the required elements prior to performing moderate sedation procedures and monitors compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York
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17-01762-88

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Medicine Service clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data every 6 months and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures quality assurance data for the anticoagulation management program are collected, analyzed, and reported quarterly at Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee meetings and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently provide specific education to patients with newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and refer patients prescribed direct-acting oral anticoagulants to the anticoagulation clinic and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Chief of Staff requires that clinical managers include in the competency assessments of employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program knowledge of standard terminology, pharmacology of anticoagulants, monitoring requirements, dose calculation, common side effects, nutrient interactions associated with anticoagulation therapy, and drug to drug interactions associated with anticoagulation therapy, and the Chief of Staff monitors clinical managers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures inter-facility patient transfer data are analyzed and reported and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers consistently complete VA Forms 10-2649A and 10-2649B as required by Veterans Integrated Service Network policy and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers communicate with or send to the accepting facility pertinent patient information, and the Chief of Staff monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Associate Director for Facilities and Human Resources ensures the VA Police Service consistently participates on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Associate Director for Facilities and Human Resources ensures locked mental health unit panic alarm testing documentation includes VA Police Service response time and monitors compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/27/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that a risk assessment is completed when a locked mental health unit patient is using an electrical or mechanical hospital bed and that the room containing the bed is locked when not in use, and the Associate Director for Patient Care Services monitors compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/31/2018
The Facility Director ensures all members of the Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team complete the required training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and the Facility Director monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/1/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that the use of reversal agents in moderate sedation cases and the presence or absence of adverse events for all areas administering moderate sedation are reported to and trended by the Surgical, Procedural, Operative, and Therapeutic Committee and monitors compliance.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 1/6/2020
The Chief of Staff ensures providers include a review of abnormalities of major organ systems; an airway assessment; and a review of alcohol, tobacco, or substance use or abuse in the history and physical exams and/or pre-sedation assessments and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/1/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures providers notify patients of changes in who is performing the moderate sedation procedure and document this in the electronic health record and monitors providers’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas
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17-01748-82

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Facility Director ensures revision of local policy to specify the Quality and Performance Council as the senior-level committee responsible for key quality, safety, and value functions and co-chairs this committee.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures Physician Utilization Management Advisors consistently document their decisions in the National Utilization Management Integration database and monitors physician advisors’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that anticoagulation management program quality assurance data are collected, analyzed, and reported quarterly at the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and monitors program managers’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers include anticoagulation-specific elements in competency assessments for employees actively involved in the anticoagulant program and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/5/2018
The Facility Director ensures inter-facility patient transfer data are collected, reported, and analyzed as part of the facility’s quality management program and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures transfer notes written by acceptable designees include a staff/attending physician countersignature and monitors acceptable designees’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members consistently participate in environment of care rounds and monitors team members’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Associate Director ensures that VA Police perform and document system-wide panic alarm testing at the Salina community based outpatient clinic and monitors compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures providers include an airway assessment in the history and physical examination and/or pre-sedation assessment and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians perform post-procedure assessments of patient pain level and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Facility Director ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee continues to meet at least quarterly and monitors compliance.
No. 12
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Facility Director ensures that the community nursing home program is integrated into the facility quality improvement program.
No. 13
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Review Team completes required annual reviews and monitors the team’s compliance.
No. 14
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff and Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensure social workers and registered nurses conduct and document cyclical clinical visits with the frequency required by Veterans Health Administration policy for community nursing home oversight and monitor social workers’ and registered nurses’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System, Montgomery, Alabama
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17-01851-72

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 10/1/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data every 6 months and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers consistently include patient or surrogate informed consent, medical and/or behavioral stability, and identification of transferring and receiving provider or designee in transfer documentation and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/21/2019
The Associate Director ensures the team members responsible for comprehensive EOC rounds consistently participate and use the Comprehensive Environment of Care Assessment and Compliance Tool to document results of those rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Associate Director ensures Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members receive annual training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers perform suicide risk assessments for all patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers offer further diagnostic evaluations to patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that providers complete diagnostic evaluations for patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens within 30 days of the referral and monitors providers’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the West Texas VA Health Care System, Big Spring, Texas
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17-01742-90

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently provide patient education specific for newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently obtain all required laboratory tests prior to initiating warfarin and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for emergent transfers, provider transfer notes document patient stability for transfer and provision of all medical care within the facility’s capacity and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/4/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers document sending or communicating to the accepting facility pertinent patient information and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program employees document details of the observations and deficiencies identified during monthly self-inspections, submit work orders for all items needing repair, and document corrective actions taken, and the Chief of Staff monitors employees’ compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program employees consistently conduct and document weekly contraband inspections and monitors employees’ compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Associate Director ensures that Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program managers ensure that all doors not considered as the main point of entry have audible alarms and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/25/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers perform and document suicide risk assessments for all patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/10/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers offer further diagnostic evaluations to patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and refer them and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 10
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 9/6/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers complete diagnostic evaluations within 30 days for patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 11
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that resident physicians are assigned and granted the correct user class computer option and that clinical managers review and monitor residents’ progress notes to ensure that resident supervision documentation meets requirements, and the Chief of Staff monitors managers’ compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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17-01855-81

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/23/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members participate on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 2/1/2018
The Associate Director ensures a safe respiratory environment for patients and employees in the Community Living Center units and monitors compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 7/23/2018
The Chief of Staff and Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensure social workers and registered nurses conduct cyclical clinical visits with the required frequency and monitor compliance.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Alexandria VA Health Care System, Pineville, Louisiana
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17-01853-89

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 12/17/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that clinical managers consistently review Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data at least every 6 months and monitors managers’ compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures clinicians consistently provide specific education to patients with newly prescribed anticoagulant medications and monitors clinicians’ compliance.
No. 3
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/11/2019
The Associate Director ensures required team members consistently participate on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/11/2019
The Associate Director ensures that facility managers maintain a safe and clean environment in all patient care areas and monitors the managers’ compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Associate Director ensures locked mental health unit employees and Interdisciplinary Safety Inspection Team members complete the required training on how to identify and correct environmental hazards, including the proper use of the Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist, and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee includes consistent representation by the medical staff and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures social workers and registered nurses conduct alternating, cyclical clinical visits with the required frequency and monitors their compliance.
No. 8
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 3/11/2019
The Chief of Staff ensures acceptable providers perform and document suicide risk assessments for all patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 9
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 6/20/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that acceptable providers offer further diagnostic evaluations to patients with positive post-traumatic stress disorder screens and monitors providers’ compliance.
Review of Alleged Funding Security Issues of the Veterans Services Adaptable Network at VA Medical Center Orlando, FL
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15-03059-384

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No. 1
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA),Information and Technology (OIT)
Closure Date: 1/31/2018
The OIG recommended the executive in charge for the Office of the Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with the executive in charge for the Office of Information and Technology, ensure that all guest internet access networks, external air gapped networks, and industrial control systems are appropriately segregated from VA networks and meet the department’s information security requirements.
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program Review of the Huntington VA Medical Center, Huntington, West Virginia
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17-01760-85

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No. 1
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Closure Date: 1/31/2018
The Facility Director requires the Quality, Safety, and Value Council to document meeting minutes that include evidence of the review and analysis of aggregated data, identification of opportunities for improvement, implementation of corrective actions, and evaluation of effectiveness of the actions and monitors the Quality, Safety, and Value Council’s compliance.
No. 2
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/30/2018
The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, sending nurses document transfer assessments/notes and monitors the nurses’ compliance.
No. 3
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Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures that for patients transferred out of the facility, providers communicate with or send to the accepting facility pertinent patient information and monitors providers’ compliance.
No. 4
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 8/30/2018
The Associate Director ensures required team members consistently participate on environment of care rounds and monitors compliance.
No. 5
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Associate Director ensures access to sterile supplies at the Gallipolis community based outpatient clinic is restricted and monitors compliance.
No. 6
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to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Closure Date: 11/26/2018
The Associate Director ensures medical (biohazardous) waste stored for pick-up at the Gallipolis community based outpatient clinic is secured and monitors compliance.
No. 7
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Closure Date: 7/5/2018
The Chief of Staff ensures the Community Nursing Home Oversight Committee includes a representative from acquisitions.
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