Open Recommendations

Executive leaders evaluate the toxic exposure screening process and develop a sustainable action plan to ensure staff complete secondary screenings.

Executive leaders ensure facility staff complete preventive maintenance inspections for all medical equipment.

Executive leaders ensure facility staff develop and implement processes to properly disinfect wheelchairs, remove dust from ceiling vents, and repair walls.

Executive leaders ensure facility staff keep clean and dirty equipment and supplies separated in storage areas and ensure staff can access medical equipment when needed.

Veterans Integrated Service Network leaders ensure facility executive leaders provide effective oversight of the environment of care program.

Executive leaders ensure quality management staff implement a system-wide process to monitor the effectiveness of patient notification of all urgent, noncritical test results.

Evaluate employee staffing and scheduling at mail processing facilities with declining productivity and develop a plan to right-size the complement.

Assess training needs of mail processing employees at facilities with declining productivity and address employee competency gaps.

Conduct annual reviews of cost and volume inputs for the PostalPro Undeliverable-as-Addressed data model to verify they are accurate and up-to-date.

Identify, address, and monitor delivery unit supervisors and carriers not following Undeliverable Marketing Mail policy.

Determine the frequency in which supervisors perform and document reviews of carrier handling and disposal of Undeliverable Marketing Mail, and implement accordingly.

Identify, address, and monitor delivery units with elevated rates of No Record Mail to achieve the nationwide target.

Determine the frequency in which supervisors perform and document reviews on proper handling of Carrier Identified Forward mail and verification of Change of Address forms, and implement accordingly.

We recommend that the Ohio Department of Medicaid ensure providers correct the 117 instances of provider noncompliance identified in this report.

We recommend that the Ohio Department of Medicaid improve its oversight and monitoring of all providers.

We recommend that the Ohio Department of Medicaid work with providers to improve their facilities, staffing, and training.

We recommend that the Ohio Department of Medicaid ensure providers correct the 117 instances of provider noncompliance identified in this report.

We recommend that the Ohio Department of Medicaid improve its oversight and monitoring of all providers.

We recommend that the Ohio Department of Medicaid work with providers to improve their facilities, staffing, and training.

Rec. A.1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy, establish and implement additional training on awarding lowest price technically acceptable contracts or clarify best practices for lowest price technically acceptable awards to ensure contracting personnel understand and follow the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement requirements.

Rec. B.1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy assess the deficiencies identified in this report and develop and implement processes, procedures, and guidance sufficient to ensure the data contracting personnel enter into the Federal Procurement Data System is accurate through either additional training, data entry controls, or oversight of the data.

Rec. B.1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy direct the Services and other Defense agencies to require contracting personnel to review and correct contract actions that were incorrectly labeled as lowest price technically acceptable awards in the Federal Procurement Data System.

1. We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator update and finalize the industry engagement plan to define regularly scheduled opportunities to meet with the technology industry and other stakeholders.

2.  We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator incorporate all known program challenges into the risk assessment and design a comprehensive mitigation plan to address these risks in accordance with departmental requirements. 

3. We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator develop a programmatic plan that includes how the Innovation Fund’s statutory objectives will be met and how program performance will be measured.