Healthcare Inspection: Provider Availability VA Roseburg Healthcare System, Roseburg, Oregon.

摘要

The VA Office of Inspector General Office of Healthcare Inspections conducted an inspection in response to complaints about the quality of inpatient care at the VA Roseburg Healthcare System, Roseburg, OR. The complainant alleged that on-call hospitalists live too far away from the facility to provide onsite care between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. and therefore only provide orders that temporized care until the hospitalist arrived at 7:00 a.m. The complainant alleged that the inpatient nursing staff was unable to secure medical intervention and that patients failed to receive prompt care from 7:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. unless they were to deteriorate to the point of requiring a full medical code.