Federal Reports

Standing Review Boards (SRB) conduct independent assessments of programs and projects and offer recommendations to improve performance and reduce risk. However, the SRB process lacks Agency-level oversight, improved SRB composition and training can add greater value to the assessments, improvements are needed to ensure adequacy of SRB engagement and accuracy of information provided to decision-makers, and the SRB process does not adequately capture lessons learned.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Care in the Community healthcare inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of community care processes at eight Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 4: VA Healthcare medical facilities with a community care program. 

This evaluation focused on five domains:
   •    Leadership and Administration of Community Care
   •    Administratively Closed Community Care Consults
   •    Community Care Provider Requests for Additional Services
   •    Care Coordination Activities for Patients Referred for Community Care
   •    Community Urgent Care Coordination and Management

The OIG issued 13 recommendations for VA to correct identified deficiencies in the five domains:
   •    Leadership and Administration of Community Care
     o    Community care oversight councils
     o    Staffing tool reassessments
     o    Patient safety events
     o    Patient safety trends, lessons learned, and corrective actions
     o    Community care document importing
   •    Administratively Closed Community Care Consults
     o    Community care appointment confirmation
     o    Medical documents
   •    Community Care Provider Requests for Additional Services
     o    Request processing
     o    Approval and denial letters for community providers and patients
   •    Care Coordination Activities for Patients Referred for Community Care
     o    Community Care–Care Coordination Plan note use to document care coordination activities
     o    Appointment confirmation
   •    Community Urgent Care Coordination and Management
     o    Community Care–Urgent Care Record note creation

The audit objectives were to determine whether program funds were managed in accordance with the ARC and Federal grant requirements.

The audit objectives were to determine whether program funds were managed in accordance with the ARC and Federal grant requirements.

Evaluation of the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s Compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, Fiscal Year 2025

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