Sovah Health has agreed to pay $4.36 million to settle claims that the hospital system violated the Controlled Substance Act. The violations occurred between 2017
How does the DEA define significant loss? That is a question many of you who oversee controlled substances have asked over the years. I have
How common are verbal orders at your facility? How timely are the physicians authenticating those verbal orders? Does anyone other than the nurse entering the
What kind of evidence do you need to pronounce a guilty verdict when it comes to diversion? Catching someone in the act of placing medication
In hospitals everywhere, we need to have a contingency plan for our key employees. It is so easy to fall into the rhythm of having
All across the country, pharmacy staff are picking up returned controlled substances and placing them back into pharmacy stock. They are removing them from automated
A colleague shared that a good friend of theirs admitted they had a substance abuse problem and had been diverting from work. They are a
There has been a lot of chatter on list serves within the diversion prevention community about the nearly 8 gallons of fentanyl diverted from a
Drug diversion rarely happens because of one obvious failure. In most healthcare organizations, it develops through small control gaps that go unnoticed over time: inconsistent
The more addiction and recovery stories healthcare leaders hear, the harder it becomes to reduce substance use disorder to a stereotype. That is exactly why
In a recent RXPERT podcast discussion, diversion mitigation leaders explored a question many healthcare organizations still wrestle with: what actually makes someone effective in a
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