Prevention
- Onsite Risk Assessment/Gap analysis with recommendations for remediation
- Customized recommendations for implementing and operationalizing industry best practice
- eLearning module creation and development (example topics include: Diversion Awareness, Discrepancy Resolution)
- Onsite or Virtual live training sessions
- Diversion Prevention Program Oversight and Monitoring
- Interim Diversion Prevention Program Leadership
- Controlled Substance Handling process review: Anesthesia, Nursing, Inpatient Pharmacy, & Outpatient/Retail Pharmacy
- Review of ADC settings and configurations
- Review and guidance on best practice for wasting controlled substances
- Review and guidance on best practice for storage of controlled substances
- Review and guidance on complying with the Controlled Substances Act and other DEA regulations
- Review and guidance on complying with State specific regulations
- Onboarding and training for Diversion prevention staff
- Oversight program building and implementation
Detection
- Manual chart audits
- Review of Acudose, Pyxis, and Omnicell (ADC) Transactions for anomalies
- Review of ADC reports
- Expert Review of Pharmacy Vault (CII Safe, CSM, Narc Station)
- Expert guidance on discrepancy resolution
- ADC to EHR Audits:
- Transaction Audits for Anesthesia
- Transaction Audits for Nursing
- Transaction Audits for Pharmacy
- Guidance on implementing an analytics solution
- Guidance on maximizing your analytics solution
- Review of and recommendations for improving physical security
Response
- Create customized, site or system specific diversion response process
- Set up and train Diversion Response Team
- Independent review of cases suspicious for diversion
- Diversion Investigation support
- Conduct interviews with suspected diverting staff members
- Regulatory Report guidance and filing
DISCLAIMER: Diversion Specialists does not provide medical or legal advice. Every institution should be advised by counsel in legal and regulatory matters.