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Poor Paperwork Potentially Puts Patients at Risk: New Mexico VAMC Reuses Medical Devices without Documenting Proper Cleaning
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In the latest episode of Veteran Oversight Now, a VA OIG healthcare inspection hotline director discusses findings at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where there was no documentation of required reusable medical device reprocessing, which put patients at risk for infection if the reusable medical devices used during subsequent procedures were, in fact, not cleaned per requirements. The VA OIG also found that high-level disinfection documentation was missing and made seven recommendations related to oversight of the medical center’s Sterile Processing Service. This episode also includes highlights of the VA OIG’s work from July 2024.
“If it’s [medical device] not documented properly and it’s not documented in the system so that we can track the cleaning, the disinfecting, the sterilization, then we don’t know if it’s processed appropriately.” – Trina Rollins, VA Office of Inspector General, Office of Healthcare Inspections, Hotline Director
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