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?”.

The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) assessment in the FTCA Deeming Requirements section of the Site Visit Protocol (SVP) was discontinued effective October 27, 2023.

Community health centers are required to develop and maintain policies or procedures that demonstrate the health center is working to mitigate patient safety risks. Four of those policies are Referral Tracking (RT), Hospitalization Tracking (HT), Diagnostic Tracking (DT), and After-Hours Call Follow-up Tracking (AH) policies.

HRSA has updated this year’s FTCA deeming application! The RegLantern team has reviewed the document in detail and guides your team through the changes.

FTCA redeeming application…don’t wait!

HRSA updates Site Visit Protocol with minor changes focused on look-alikes and FTCA-deemed organizations.

HRSA has recently updated its FTCA application requirements. Read more how health centers can be prepared.

HRSA released two new tools to help health centers improve their Form 5B accuracy.

Health centers often wonder how utilizing volunteer health professionals impacts their FTCA deeming.