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VA OIG: one Environment of care recommendation for VA Columbia Missouri Healthcare System
Healthcare Facility Inspection report 26-00046-284, issued October 5, 2026. OIG evaluated five domains and made one recommendation — Clean and safe environment — under Environment of care. VISN 4 · Missouri · VHA. This is a Notice Nearby brief, not Legal Publication.
On October 5, 2026, the VA Office of Inspector General published Healthcare Facility Inspection report 26-00046-284 on the VA Columbia Missouri Healthcare System. The Office of Healthcare Inspections described a focused evaluation of care at that system.
Inspectors covered five domains: Culture; Environment of care; Patient safety; Integrated veteran care; and Veteran-centered safety net. The OIG made one recommendation in one domain — Environment of care: Clean and safe environment.
The report sits under VISN 4, State Missouri, Veterans Health Administration. Full official report (no tracking params): https://www.vaoig.gov/reports/healthcare-facility-inspection/healthcare-facility-inspection-va-columbia-missouri
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This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk brief summarizing a public VA OIG Healthcare Facility Inspection alert sent to publisher@noticenearby.com. It is not a legal notice, not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement. Read the full report on vaoig.gov for the findings and recommendations.
Source: the official public federal record va-oig-26-00046-284 · VA OIG · HFI VA Columbia Missouri Healthcare System · Report 26-00046-284 · Oct 5, 2026 · VA-OIG-26-00046-284.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.