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The Director ensures staff have written procedures for responding to utility system disruptions.

The Director ensures staff identify, minimize, or eliminate safety and security risks in the physical environment.

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

The Director ensures clinical staff notify the suicide prevention team when patients report suicidal behaviors during the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation.

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

The Medical Center Director ensures the Safety and Occupational Health Specialist or designee schedules and ensures staff complete and document environment of care inspections at the required frequency.

The Medical Center Director ensures staff monitor and document VA police response times to panic alarm testing in the Acute Inpatient Mental Health Unit at least quarterly.

The Medical Center Director ensures the Suicide Prevention Coordinator conducts a minimum of five outreach activities each month.

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

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

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

The Associate Director ensures managers maintain a safe and clean environment throughout the medical center.

The Chief of Staff ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same day as a positive suicide risk screen when it is clinically appropriate.

The Chief of Staff ensures providers complete a Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation following a positive suicide risk screen.

The Chief of Staff ensures clinical staff notify the suicide prevention team if patients report suicidal or other self-directed violent behaviors that occurred in the 12 months preceding the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation.

The Chief of Staff ensures leaders appoint one full-time suicide prevention coordinator to each community-based outpatient clinic that serves at least 10,000 unique veterans annually.

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

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

The Chief of Staff ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same calendar day, when it is clinically appropriate, following a positive suicide risk screen.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, ensures staff document veterans’ care coordination needs within the Community Care Coordination Plan note for consults assigned a level of care coordination above basic.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, ensures staff act on consults no later than two business days after receipt and document accordingly.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, ensures staff schedule community care appointments in a timely manner.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, ensures staff make three attempts to retrieve medical documentation from non-VA providers.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, ensures patients in the home dialysis program receive initial and annual home visits.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, ensures staff implement and sustain processes to monitor the delivery of non-VA home dialysis.

The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors, ensures each Veterans Integrated Service Network establishes a dialysis council.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures service chiefs complete Focused Professional Practice Evaluations for all licensed independent practitioners.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures practitioners with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges complete licensed independent practitioners’ professional practice evaluations.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures service chiefs incorporate service-specific criteria in licensed independent practitioners’ professional practice evaluations.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures service chiefs consider relevant Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data in reprivileging recommendations.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures the Medical Executive Board uses professional practice evaluation results to recommend privileges for licensed independent practitioners.

The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff conduct environment of care inspections in patient care areas at the required frequency.

The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures Automated External Defibrillator cabinets containing naloxone have alarms set in the “on” position, contain tamper-evident seals, display laminated “N” signs, and include naloxone inspection logs and administration reference cards.

The Medical Center Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff check inventory in clean storerooms and remove expired supplies in the Emergency Department and medical/surgical inpatient unit.

The Associate Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures the Chief of Environmental Management Service maintains clean floors in the Dialysis Unit and medical/surgical inpatient unit clean storage and supply rooms.

The Associate Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff maintain safe and functional environments in the Dialysis Unit and medical/surgical inpatient unit.

The Associate Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff keep furnishings safe and in good repair in the intensive care and medical/surgical inpatient units.

The Associate Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff repair damaged walls in the Dental Clinic and Emergency Department.

The Associate Director evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff replace stained ceiling tiles in the Emergency Department and Primary Care Red Team.

The Medical Center Director determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures staff post signage where recording equipment is used in the intensive care and medical/surgical inpatient units, Dental Clinic, and Primary Care Red Team indicating the areas are subject to photography, digital imaging, video, or audio recording.

The Chief of Staff evaluates and determines any additional reasons for noncompliance and ensures providers assess whether patients’ most recent suicide attempt was their most lethal when completing the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation.

The VA Black Hills Health Care System Director reviews the sexual harassment policy to ensure that leaders and supervisors can identify, thoroughly investigate, and respond to sexual harassment allegations.

The VA Black Hills Health Care System Director ensures that facility policy addresses the safety and rights of patients who are both VA employees and participants in the Transitional Residence program.

The VA Black Hills Health Care System Director continues to monitor and track the identified action plan through to completion.

The VA Black Hills Health Care System Director reviews the evidence and independently determines if the state licensing board should be notified.

The Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center Director considers establishing written procedures for discharge planning in the Emergency Department, including documentation of contact with family members regarding notification of discharge and follow-up when applicable.

The Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center Director expedites written guidance for primary care staff’s care coordination of patients discharged from the Emergency Department including documentation expectations and oversight responsibilities, and monitors compliance.

The Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center Director establishes a protocol for the administrative staff management of potentially urgent patient care needs, ensures training, and monitors compliance.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director reviews the supervision provided to the psychiatry trainee regarding the patient’s treatment, documentation, and document control, to include electronic health records and video recordings, and determines if standards were met, and takes action as indicated.

The Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director reviews the facility leader and staff responses, including those of the supervisor and patient advocate, to ensure the patient’s concerns were adequately addressed, and takes action as indicated.

The Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Director ensures records control schedules, including one for video recordings, are completed for the Mental Health Department as required by Veterans Health Administration policy.