If you are like most health centers this year, you may have been overwhelmed with the changes in the FTCA (Federal Tort Claims Act) requirements. You may have felt the changes were unclear and you were confused about how to meet the requirements. Or maybe you had significant turnover in your staff and some of your quarterly Risk Management Assessments or risk management trainings fell through the cracks. The submission deadline may have crept up on you amidst summer vacations, EMR “go-lives”, and budgetary struggles. If any of this describes your experience, you’re not alone.

But the silver lining in all of this is that you made it through and now is the time to put the systems in place so next year’s application is much less stressful! In the following article, we will share strategies for moving toward continuous FTCA compliance.

So, you’re done with submitting your UDS data for the year and you are now turning your focus to this year’s Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) application…you may be asking yourself, “What do I need to do first?”.