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The Medical Center Director ensures each service develops a workflow for the communication of test results.

The Medical Center Director ensures quality management staff report deficiencies identified from the External Peer Review Program to executive leaders, and staff take corrective actions as needed.

The Medical Center Director ensures the facility has a written policy for communication of test results.

The Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Patient Care Services ensure leaders in each service develop written service-level workflows that outline the process for staff to communicate test results to providers and patients.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures executive leaders implement a process to monitor actions related to Veterans Health Administration policy changes.

The Medical Center Director ensures the Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Patient Care Services review performance metrics for test result communications and take action for identified deficiencies.

The Medical Center Director ensures executive leaders attend Quality and Patient Safety Council meetings.

Facility leaders ensure the community living centers dementia unit shower room is clean and free from hazards, and that leaders conduct a risk assessment to determine the need for other safety measures.

The Medical Center Director ensures facility staff conduct a privacy assessment and take actions to protect patient information in the Emergency Department.

Facility leaders ensure all eyewash stations are clean and function properly.

The Medical Center Director ensures the facility has a written policy for communication of test results.

The Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Patient Care Services ensure leaders in each service develop written service-level workflows that outline the process for staff to communicate test results to providers and patients.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensures executive leaders implement a process to monitor actions related to Veterans Health Administration policy changes.

The Medical Center Director ensures the Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Patient Care Services review performance metrics for test result communications and take action for identified deficiencies.

The Medical Center Director ensures executive leaders attend Quality and Patient Safety Council meetings.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures clinical staff can open all doors to shared bathrooms.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures staff keep exterior doors closed to minimize risk to wandering patients.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures each service has workflows to communicate test results.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures clinical staff can open all doors to shared bathrooms.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures staff keep exterior doors closed to minimize risk to wandering patients.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures staff store clean and dirty equipment and supplies separately.

The Executive Medical Center Director ensures each service has workflows to communicate test results.

The Facility Director ensures the Mental Health Executive Council operates in accordance with Veterans Health Administration requirements.

The Chief of Mental Health ensures compliance with Veterans Health Administration requirements for a full-time local recovery coordinator.

The Chief of Mental Health ensures a minimum of four hours of recovery-oriented, interdisciplinary programming on weekdays and weekends on the inpatient mental health unit.