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GAO Report Finds Gaps In IHS Anti-Abuse Oversight
Law360 (December 11, 2020, 5:39 PM EST) The Indian Health Service has fallen short in monitoring its regional offices and tracking patient complaints to prevent misconduct by its providers, including abuse and assault, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The nine IHS regional offices that oversee at least two facilities were examined. Only three of those offices offer supervisor training focused specifically on investigating alleged misconduct, the GAO found Thursday in the report titled, Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Provider Misconduct and Substandard Performance.
And while IHS hospitals have governing boards that oversee quality of care, there isn t one agencywide protocol for documenting.
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Top Four Ways that the Biden Administration Can Center Environmental Justice Reform
Anita Desikan, Research Analyst | December 10, 2020, 4:30 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on
One of the greatest tragedies in our country is that many communities especially communities of color, low-income communities, and Indigenous communities are unnecessarily burdened with higher levels of air pollution, contaminated water, and other environmental stressors. This level of pollution results in a heightened risk of a number of serious health issues like asthma, cancer, severe COVID-19 symptoms, and death. Members of underserved communities not only face these long-standing and deeply entrenched inequities, but they also usually have the least access to decisionmakers who will listen to them and who will try and reform the current system.
11 December 2020
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Actions to mitigate risks to the USA s domestic uranium supply chain could be better planned and coordinated, according to a report published yesterday by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). Improving cost estimates to support future funding requests for the proposed uranium reserve is one of several recommendations by the GAO to improve the strategy to address concerns expressed by domestic uranium industry and support new uranium production.
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The GAO report is in response the strategy released earlier this year by the Nuclear Fuel Working Group (NFWG) set up in 2019 by President Donald Trump to look into national security considerations with respect to the entire nuclear fuel supply chain. The strategy outlined by the NFWG includes setting up a uranium reserve with the purchase of uranium from US mines and of US conversion services.
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