Federal Reports

The U.S. Postal Service’s mission is to provide timely, reliable, secure, and affordable mail and package delivery to more than 160 million residential and business addresses across the country. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews delivery operations at facilities across the country and provides management with timely feedback in furtherance of this mission.

The U.S. Postal Service’s mission is to provide timely, reliable, secure, and affordable mail and package delivery to more than 160 million residential and business addresses across the country. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews delivery operations at facilities across the country and provides management with timely feedback in furtherance of this mission.

The U.S. Postal Service’s mission is to provide timely, reliable, secure, and affordable mail and package delivery to more than 160 million residential and business addresses across the country. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General  reviews delivery operations at facilities across the country and provides management with timely feedback in furtherance of this mission. 

The U.S. Postal Service’s mission is to provide timely, reliable, secure, and affordable mail and package delivery to more than 160 million residential and business addresses across the country. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews delivery operations at facilities across the country and provides management with timely feedback in furtherance of this mission. 

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued this preliminary result advisory memorandum to communicate a serious patient safety risk related to acute ischemic stroke (AIS) management at the Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center (facility) in Columbia, South Carolina. During a healthcare inspection, the OIG found that the facility’s AIS practices did not align with Veterans Health Administration (VHA) or facility policy, resulting in delays in diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and disposition of patients with stroke symptoms. These concerns were shared with Veterans Integrated Service Network and facility leaders during a site visit on August 28, 2025, prompting immediate interim corrective actions.

To promote proactive risk mitigation across the enterprise, the OIG is broadly sharing this preliminary finding with other VHA facilities.

VHA Directive 1155(1) requires VA medical centers to maintain a protocol for emergent stroke management. The OIG found that the facility’s actual practices contradicted its own policy, which outlined a code stroke protocol, stroke team responsibilities, emergency department evaluation for all suspected AIS cases, and use of the VA National Telestroke Program. In practice, inpatient units lacked a stroke team or code stroke protocol, and patients were not transferred to the emergency department or evaluated by telestroke neurologists unless already in the emergency department.

The OIG observed a case in which intensive care unit staff failed to promptly respond to a suspected stroke, resulting in delayed imaging, neurology evaluation, and transfer to a community stroke center. The absence of a clear transfer protocol further hindered timely care.

During the site visit, the OIG advised facility leaders to take corrective actions by September 5, 2025. The facility has since developed a new standard operating procedure, initiated staff training, and plans to revise its policy. The OIG will continue monitoring progress and include full findings in the final report.

Management and performance challenges facing the Commission and briefly assesses management's progress

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System in Muskogee. This evaluation focused on five key content domains:
•    Culture
•    Environment of care
•    Patient safety
•    Primary care
•    Veteran-centered safety net

The OIG issued three recommendations for VA to correct identified deficiencies in two domains:
1.    Environment of care
•    Clean and safe environment
2.    Patient safety
•    Service-level workflows for test result communication
•    Effectiveness of the patient notification process

What Was Reviewed
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation Office of Inspector General contracted with the independent public accounting firm RMA Associates, LLC (RMA) to conduct the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) Performance Audit of the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 to evaluate the effectiveness of the DFC’s information security program and practices, and determine what maturity level DFC achieved for each of the core metrics and supplemental metrics outlined in the FY 2025 Inspectors General (IG) FISMA Reporting Metrics v2.0 (April 2025).

Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of the DFC’s information security program and practices and determine the maturity level DFC achieved for each of the core metrics and supplemental metrics outlined in the FY 2025 IG FISMA Reporting Metrics v2.0 (April 2025).

What Was Found
In this Performance Audit of DFC, RMA determined that DFC’s information security program and practices were effective for FY 2025, as DFC’s information security program met the criteria required to be assessed at a maturity level of Managed and Measurable (Effective). RMA’s tests of the information security program identified two findings that fell within the data protection and privacy and information security continuous monitoring domains.