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Your Experience Matters — Share Guidance on Vendor Compliance

1.Which vendor management services does your organization use? (Check all that apply)
2.Vendor representatives consistently adhere to our facility’s perioperative access, credentialing, and compliance requirements.
3.Vendor representatives entering procedural areas in scrubs worn into the facility rather than obtained on site poses an infection-prevention concern.
4.Our organization consistently verifies the credentials of vendor representatives (including immunizations, background checks, and TB tests) before granting perioperative access.
5.Hospital staff are consistently empowered and supported to enforce vendor compliance requirements when issues arise in perioperative areas.
6.Vendor representatives only enter perioperative areas when they have a clearly defined appointment or a documented purpose.
7.Our organization could produce documentation for all vendor visits during a regulatory survey.
8.An automated vendor management system would strengthen the enforcement of vendor compliance requirements in perioperative areas.
9.Our facility would be receptive to adopting an automated solution that standardizes vendor access, OR attire control, credential verification, and audit reporting.
10.Monitoring and enforcing vendor compliance requirements places a significant burden on perioperative staff.
11.Time spent monitoring or policing vendor compliance takes away from direct patient care or clinical priorities.
12.Vendor representatives entering perioperative areas in OR attire that cannot be verified as clean pose an infection-prevention risk.
13.Vendor representatives are easily identifiable in perioperative areas at all times.
14.Vendor representatives are required to check in through a controlled process before entering restricted or sterile areas.
15.Our organization routinely reviews vendor management practices to identify gaps and strengthen compliance policies and processes.
16.Are there any additional opportunities or challenges related to vendor access, attire, or compliance in perioperative areas that you feel warrant further attention?
17.If you would be open to being contacted for follow up or clarification related to your responses, please share your contact information below. (This is optional.)