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Recommendation Details
Text of Recommendation
The VA New Mexico Health Care System Director ensures Sterile Processing Service has a process to communicate all instances when high-level disinfection documentation cannot be located to the associated clinical services when the reusable medical devices was used in patient care.
Recommendation Number
04
Recommendation Status
Open
Significant Recommendation
No
Associated Report Details
Submitting OIG
Department of Veterans Affairs OIG
Linked Report
Deficiencies in Documentation of Reusable Medical Device Reprocessing and Failures in VISN 22 Oversight of Sterile Processing Service at the Raymond G. Murphy VAMC in Albuquerque, New Mexico