Combined Assessment Program Review of the St. Cloud VA Health Care System, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Report Information

Issue Date
Report Number
14-04218-92
VISN
State
Minnesota
District
VA Office
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Report Author
Office of Healthcare Inspections
Report Type
Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program
Recommendations
1
Questioned Costs
$0
Better Use of Funds
$0
Congressionally Mandated
No

Summary

Summary
The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review to evaluate selected health care facility operations, focusing on patient care quality and the environment of care. During the review, OIG provided crime awareness briefings to 167 employees. This review focused on eight operational activities. The facility complied with selected standards in the following seven activities: (1) quality management, (2) environment of care, (3) medication management, (4) coordination of care, (5) continuity of care, (6) emergency airway management, and (7) Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program. The facility’s reported accomplishment was increasing access to primary and specialty medicine services. OIG made a recommendation for improvement in the magnetic resonance imaging safety activity.

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No. 1
Closed and Implemented Recommendation Image, Checkmark
to Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
We recommended that radiologists and/or Level 2 magnetic resonance imaging personnel document resolution in patients' electronic health records of all identified magnetic resonance imaging contraindications prior to the scan and that facility managers monitor compliance.