Hospital authority approves multiple vendor contracts flagged in internal audit

The Nashville General Hospital Authority voted to approve a group of vendor contracts and contract amendments that had been flagged in a recent internal audit, including an amendment to a trauma registry contract, a three‑year agreement for an in‑office liver‑scanning device, a medical waste disposal contract, a bed‑tracking service and an amendment to an exclusion‑check service.

Board Chair (name not specified) opened the contracting portion of the meeting and introduced the items. "These are two of the contracts that need to come back before the board that were listed as recommendations in the internal audit to bring them into compliance," said Doctor Elders, a board member, before staff presenters described each contract.

Bill Campbell, trauma program manager at Nashville General Hospital, described an amendment to the existing KJ Trauma Consulting agreement, which manages the hospital's trauma registry. "They manage our data collection, the abstraction, the coding of the injuries, the report writing, and then our submissions to the state," Campbell said. He said the hospital is a state‑designated Level III trauma center…