Recommendations
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| 23-00016-132 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Syracuse VA Medical Center in New York | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Chief of Staff ensures staff record the Peer Review Committee’s formal discussions related to changes in peer review level assignments in the meeting minutes.
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2 The Chief of Staff ensures the Medical Staff Executive Committee reviews data provided by the Peer Review Committee to determine the need for further action.
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3 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs complete Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations prior to reprivileging to ensure continuous delivery of quality care.
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4 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs use specialty-specific criteria in the professional practice evaluations of licensed independent practitioners.
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5 The Associate Director ensures the Comprehensive Environment of Care Rounds Coordinator or designee schedules environment of care inspections and staff complete and document them at the required frequency.
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6 The Associate Director ensures staff keep patient care areas safe and clean.
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7 The Medical Center Director ensures staff document police response times to panic alarm testing in the mental health inpatient unit.
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8 The Medical Center Director ensures staff test over-the-door alarms based on the manufacturer’s recommendations for mental health inpatient unit sleeping rooms.
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9 The Medical Center Director ensures staff check all mental health inpatient unit ceiling tiles semiannually.
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10 The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures the Medical Center Director has sufficient biomedical staff and confirms they inspect and test all medical equipment for scheduled maintenance.
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11 The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures compliance with VHA Directive 1860, Biomedical Engineering Performance Monitoring and Improvement, for oversight structure of the medical center’s biomedical program.
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12 The Medical Center Director ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same calendar day as a positive suicide risk screen, when clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients.
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| 22-03013-129 | Deficiencies in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnostic Assessment, Evaluation of Stimulant Medication Risks, and Policy Guidance | National Healthcare Review | ||
1 The Under Secretary for Health ensures Veterans Health Administration prescribers establish a diagnosis based on a complete and documented assessment prior to initiation of a stimulant to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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2 The Under Secretary for Health ensures Veterans Health Administration prescribers assess risks and contraindications associated with stimulant prescribing.
3 The Under Secretary for Health evaluates the prescription drug monitoring program query adherence goal for initial stimulant prescribing and takes action as warranted.
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4 The Under Secretary for Health evaluates the adequacy of the referral processes related to complex mental health disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and takes action as warranted.
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5 The Under Secretary for Health considers establishing policy and clinical practice guidance related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnostic assessment and treatment with a stimulant and takes action as warranted.
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| 22-04112-125 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the VA Northern Indiana Health Care System in Marion | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs define the time frames for Focused Professional Practice Evaluations.
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2 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs recommend reprivileging based, in part, on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation activities
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3 The Director ensures staff remove corrugated containers from patient care areas.
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4 The Director ensures staff keep storerooms clean and free of visible dust and soiling.
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5 The Director ensures Environmental Management Services staff keep patient care areas clean.
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6 The Associate Director for Patient Care Services ensures staff remove expired commercial products from patient care areas.
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7 The Director ensures staff store clean and dirty equipment separately.
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8 The Director ensures staff maintain walls to allow for thorough cleaning.
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9 The Associate Director ensures staff test over-the-door alarms in the Inpatient Mental Health unit per the manufacturer’s recommendations.
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10 The Director ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation following a patient’s positive suicide risk screen.
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| 23-00109-121 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the VA Maine Healthcare System in Augusta | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Medical Center Director ensures leaders identify and evaluate sentinel events and conduct and document institutional disclosures when criteria are met.
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2 The Medical Center Director ensures staff complete a root cause analysis for all patient safety events assigned an actual or potential safety assessment code score of 3.
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3 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs recommend reprivileging for licensed independent practitioners based, in part, on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data.
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4 The Chief of Staff ensures staff report licensed independent practitioners’ Focused Professional Practice Evaluation results to the Clinical Executive Board.
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5 The Veterans Integrated Service Network Chief Medical Officer provides effective oversight of credentialing and privileging processes at the healthcare system.
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6 The Medical Center Director ensures the comprehensive environment of care coordinator schedules environment of care inspections at the required frequency and verifies staff complete and document them.
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7 The Medical Center Director ensures staff document police response times to panic alarm testing in the Inpatient Mental Health Unit.
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8 The Medical Center Director ensures staff follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for testing over-the-door alarms on Inpatient Mental Health Unit sleeping room doors.
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9 The Medical Center Director ensures staff maintain a safe environment in the Inpatient Mental Health Unit.
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10 The Medical Center Director ensures staff post hazard warning signs on all access doors where potentially infectious materials are located.
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11 The Medical Center Director ensures staff keep patient care areas safe and clean.
12 The Chief of Staff ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation the same calendar day, when logistically feasible and clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients with a positive suicide risk screen.
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| 23-00111-119 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Medical Center Director ensures staff identify sentinel events and take appropriate action when home oxygen fires occur.
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2 The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures network staff track and monitor home oxygen vendor completion of root cause analyses when sentinel events occur.
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3 The Chief of Staff ensures designated staff complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation the same calendar day, when logistically feasible and clinically appropriate, for all ambulatory care patients with a positive suicide risk screen.
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| 23-00096-122 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the VA Central Iowa Health Care System in Des Moines | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Chief of Staff ensures providers with equivalent specialized training and similar privileges complete licensed independent practitioners’ Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.
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2 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs recommend continued privileges for licensed independent practitioners based, in part, on Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation activities.
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3 The Chief of Staff ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same day as a patient’s positive suicide risk screen in ambulatory care settings.
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| 23-00967-64 | Veteran Readiness and Employment Staff Improperly Sent Participants to Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses | Review | ||
1 Develop and implement policies and system controls to ensure all programs approved for use by vocational rehabilitation counselors for Veteran Readiness and Employment participants meet the requirements of applicable laws and regulations
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2 Train all appropriate Veteran Readiness and Employment regional office staff on manual requirement to verify the programs are approved for use before selecting participants and to verify facility codes match from authorization through enrollment.
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| 23-00097-113 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the VA Black Hills Health Care System in Fort Meade, South Dakota | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs regularly complete Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations for each licensed independent practitioner.
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2 The Chief of Staff ensures the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff reviews Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation data and documents its review prior to recommending licensed independent practitioners’ ongoing privileges to the Director.
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3 The Director ensures staff complete environment of care inspections at the required frequency.
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4 The Chief of Staff ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation the same calendar day as a patient’s positive suicide risk screen in all ambulatory care settings.
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| 23-00122-118 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Cheyenne VA Medical Center in Wyoming | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Chief of Staff ensures medical staff review and document licensed independent practitioners’ Focused Professional Practice Evaluation results and report them to the Medical Executive Board.
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2 The Chief of Staff ensures service chiefs monitor licensed independent practitioners’ performance by regularly conducting Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations.
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3 The Medical Center Director ensures staff conduct environment of care inspections in patient care areas at the required frequency.
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4 The Medical Center Director ensures the Suicide Prevention Coordinator reports suicide-related events to mental health leaders and quality management staff at least monthly.
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5 The Medical Center Director ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation following a patient’s positive suicide risk screen.
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| 22-03164-106 | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Michigan | Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program | ||
1 The Chief of Staff ensures providers complete the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation on the same day as a patient’s positive suicide risk screen in all ambulatory care settings.
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