State Audit Finds Lax Medication Tracking In Nebraska Corrections System

A state audit found that the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) had lax pharmacy inventory control practices that were not on par with a community standard of health care as required by state law and left gaps that could result in drug diversion. The DCS central pharmacy lacked adequate segregation of duties and procedures for distributing medications from inventory, medications shipments to the five prison health care facilities were not accompanied by a list of medications sent, and facility returns of refused or unused medications were not reconciled to the shipments. Although the central pharmacy pharmacists stored returned Schedule . . .