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DPH compliance office details new training and monitoring after whistleblower raises Laguna Honda concerns
Summary
Acting director Garrett Chatfield outlined OCPA's fiscal 2018—19 work, including new interactive training, expanded monitoring and plans for an executive compliance committee; whistleblower Dr. Derek Kerr told the commission the program missed repeated patient-abuse reports at Laguna Honda and urged more frequent disclosure of investigation outcomes.
Acting Office of Compliance & Privacy Affairs Director Garrett Chatfield told the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) Health Commission that his office expanded monitoring, updated its code of conduct and launched an interactive privacy-and-compliance training module as part of efforts to detect and prevent fraud, privacy breaches and misuse of city resources.
Chatfield said the office increased hospital monitoring projects (from about 14 to about 25), added a compliance officer for population health and revised the code of conduct and conflict-of-interest rules. He described plans to convene an executive-level DPH compliance committee and to use EPIC's audit tools to…
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