Report 2010-103R Recommendations
When an audit is completed and a report is issued, auditees must provide the State Auditor with information regarding their progress in implementing recommendations from our reports at three intervals from the release of the report: 60 days, six months, and one year. Additionally, Senate Bill 1452 (Chapter 452, Statutes of 2006), requires auditees who have not implemented recommendations after one year, to report to us and to the Legislature why they have not implemented them or to state when they intend to implement them. Below, is a listing of each recommendation the State Auditor made in the report referenced and a link to the most recent response from the auditee addressing their progress in implementing the recommendation and the State Auditor's assessment of auditee's response based on our review of the supporting documentation.
Recommendations in Report 2010-103R: Department of Public Health: It Faces Significant Fiscal Challenges and Lacks Transparency in Its Administration of the Every Woman Counts Program (Release Date: July 2010)
| Recommendations to Health Care Services, Department of | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
| 1 | To the extent that Public Health continues to fund its various contracts, it should establish clearer expectations with its contractors concerning how much money is to be spent directly on the different aspects of the EWC program and should monitor spending to confirm that these expectations are being met. |
Will Not Implement |
| 2 | To ensure better public transparency and accountability for how the EWC program is administered, Public Health should comply with state law to develop regulations, based on input from the public and interested parties, that will direct how Public Health administers the EWC program. At a minimum, such regulations should define the eligibility criteria for women seeking access to EWC screening services. |
Not Fully Implemented |
| Recommendations to Public Health, Department of | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
| 3 | To ensure that Public Health maximizes its use of available funding for breast cancer screening services, it should evaluate each of the EWC program’s existing contracts to determine whether the funds spent on nonclinical activities are a better use of taxpayer money than paying for a woman’s breast or cervical cancer screening. |
Fully Implemented |
| 4 | To ensure that Public Health can maintain fiscal control over the EWC program, we recommend that it develop budgets for the EWC program that clearly communicate to the Legislature the level of service that it can provide based on available resources. One way Public Health could do this would be to estimate the number of women that can be screened at different levels of funding. |
Fully Implemented |
| 5 | To ensure that Public Health can maintain fiscal control over the EWC program, we recommend that it seek legislation or other guidance from the Legislature to define actions the program may take to ensure that spending stays within amounts appropriated for a fiscal year. |
Fully Implemented |
| 6 | To ensure better public transparency and accountability for how the EWC program is administered, Public Health should provide the Legislature and the public with a time frame indicating when Public Health will issue its annual report on the effectiveness of the EWC program. Further, Public Health should inform the Legislature and the public of the steps it is taking to continue to comply with the annual reporting requirement in the future. |
Fully Implemented |