Fort Wayne Indiana VAMC : Report highlights VA Hospital violations

Report highlights VA Hospital violations

In 2010, an anonymous complaint spurred inspectors to take a look at the hospital. It claimed a physician was responsible for several patient deaths. Inspectors found that complaint to be invalid, but discovered several other problems.

The OHI found “inadequate management, documentation, and review” of a patient’s cardiac arrest. It also found “inadequate Intensive Care Unit (ICU) monitoring” of a second patient.

A third patient should not have accepted in a community hospital transfer.

In a six month period, the inspectors found 23 days where there was no staff that could perform out-of-operating room airway management at one time or another.

The final violation found that Medical Officers of the Day were providing care opposing Veterans Health Administration policy.

Inspectors gave the hospital five recommendations to complete in order to help fix and prevent further violations.

Local V-A Hospital Probed Following Patient Deaths

Local V-A Hospital Probed Following Patient Deaths

A Fort Wayne medical provider is scolded about its patient care.

The V-A Medical Center on Lake Avenue is taken to task in a national report, following a probe into two deaths.

The hospital got bad marks for providing inadequate management, documentation and review of a patient's cardiopulmonary arrest, prior to that patient's death.

Staff was also critiqued for not properly monitoring another patient in an intensive care unit.

Policies, committee minutes and documentation were also reviewed, Stutzman says, leading to five corrective recommendations.