Open Recommendations

The Chief of Staff ensures the facility has workflows for all services to identify team members roles in the test result communication process.

The Chief of Staff ensures the facility has workflows for all services to identify team members roles in the test result communication process.

The Associate Director for Operations ensures staff keep patient care areas clean and clean storage areas free of dirty items and equipment.

Facility leaders assess how staff monitor video laryngoscope supplies to ensure theyare readily available, and staff remove supplies when they expire.

Facility leaders ensure staff develop service-level workflows for the communicationof test results per the VHA directive.

Facility leaders assess how staff monitor video laryngoscope supplies to ensure theyare readily available, and staff remove supplies when they expire.

Document and fully implement the Departmentwide process for monthly monitoring of compliance with in-person work requirements.

Ensure medical facilities establish and implement clear written Homeless Screening Clinical Reminder policies that define the roles and responsibilities of staff involved in the referral, follow-up, and monitoring processes.

Ensure medical facility staff involved in the Homeless Screening Clinical Reminder process are aware of and trained on written local policies and procedures for making referrals, conducting follow-up, and monitoring.

Develop and implement a review process to determine whether medical facility staff followed local Homeless Screening Clinical Reminder policies whenever a veteran does not receive a follow-up encounter within 30 days of a positive screening and correct any identified deficiencies.

Ensure all medical facilities have a reliable report that accurately lists veterans who screened positive and accepted referrals as well as the status of follow-up actions.

Embassy Bridgetown should implement a records management program in Bridgetown and at Embassy St. Georges that complies with Department standards.

Embassy Bridgetown should coordinate and consult with counterparts at Embassy St. George's regarding management, information technology, and security functions.

The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, in coordination with the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Bureau of Consular Affairs, and the Office of the Legal Adviser, should develop a written agreement delineating the responsibilities of Embassy Bridgetown with respect to the British and French territories in the Eastern Caribbean.

Embassy Bridgetown should require the Consular Section chief to strategically direct and lead the section in accordance with Department leadership and management principles.

Embassy Bridgetown should bring its consular cashier operations into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Bridgetown should update its Duty Officer Guide to include all consular information required by Department guidance.

Embassy Bridgetown should bring its consular interview facilities into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Bridgetown should archive Consular Section communications in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Bridgetown, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should inspect its elevators and obtain certificates of use for them in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Bridgetown should bring the fire protection program in Bridgetown and at Embassy St. George's into compliance with Department and federal standards.

Embassy Bridgetown, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should bring the safety, health, and environmental management program in Bridgetown and at Embassy St. George's into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Bridgetown should conduct and document workplace safety inspections in Bridgetown and at Embassy St. George's in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Bridgetown should bring its playground into compliance with federal safety standards.

Embassy Bridgetown should review and de-obligate or validate all open unliquidated obligations without activity for an extended period, in accordance with Department standards, so funds up to $1,656,734 can be put to better use.