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Hospital Checklist

8-section, 63-item assessment for acute care, inpatient, and surgical settings

Community Pharmacy Checklist

7-section, 41-item assessment for retail pharmacy and outpatient dispensing settings

Multi-Hospital System Checklist

Per-site checklists with consolidated scoring across multiple facilities

Guides & Resources
Diversion Settlements & Fines

Settlements, civil penalties and criminal fines paid by hospitals and pharmacies in documented drug diversion cases, with the amount, year and primary source for each

Drug Diversion Statistics

Charts and data tables from 716 documented federal and state cases — drugs, settings, outcomes, and cases by year

Prevention Value Deck (Download)

Free 10-slide PowerPoint that makes the case for a diversion prevention program — documented penalties, deaths and how to evidence your own value, every figure cited

Investigation Playbook

Step-by-step guide from initial report through resolution and corrective action

Policy Templates

Ready-to-adapt diversion prevention, waste witnessing, POM, and camera policies

Training Materials

New hire awareness, annual competency, red flag recognition, and waste documentation

Regulatory Guide

DEA requirements, state board obligations, PDMP mandates, and Joint Commission standards

Risk Assessment by Unit

Risk profiles for ED, ICU, OR, Med-Surg, Oncology, and Pharmacy departments

Interview Guide

Preparation, questioning techniques, documentation standards, and legal considerations

DEA 106 Filing Guide

When to file, step-by-step form completion, common mistakes, and sample scenarios

Analytics Dashboard

KPIs, benchmarks, sample SQL, and Power BI/Tableau layout blueprint for surveillance

Drug Diversion Monitoring Software: A Buyer's Guide

What monitoring, detection, surveillance, and auditing software actually do, the real categories of tooling, what the data can and can't prove, and how to evaluate a vendor

Power BI for Diversion Prevention

ETL, data model, DAX measures, and dashboard design for controlled substance surveillance

Communication Tips

Tailored messaging for anesthesia, nursing, pharmacy, and executive leadership

15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion

Behavioral, documentation, and inventory warning signs your staff should know

Employee Screening & Fitness for Duty

Pre-employment vetting, DEA screening requirements, and ongoing fitness-for-duty monitoring for staff with controlled substance access

Patient Notification After Drug Diversion

When and how to notify patients potentially exposed through drug diversion, with bloodborne pathogen testing guidance

AI Prompting for Drug Diversion: A Prompt Library

Copy-paste AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot to detect waste, overrides, discrepancies, and off-hours access

Diversion Prevention Insights

Daily practical insights for pharmacy diversion prevention programs — controls to check, patterns to watch, and compliance questions to ask.

Most Commonly Diverted Drugs

Which controlled substances appear most often in federal cases, with audit red flags and linked case examples for each drug

Diversion Trends

What's trending up in healthcare drug diversion, tracked from recent DEA/DOJ enforcement news

Tools & References
Tough Issues

High-risk scenarios with annotated SQL: PCA, multidose vials, overrides, waste lag

Camera Setup

Placement guides, retention requirements, OR strategy, and maintenance schedule

Resources

Regulatory references, industry publications, state board contacts, DEA field offices

Useful Items

Curated tools, templates, and reference materials for diversion prevention programs

About DivertGuard

Purpose, scope, and methodology behind the DivertGuard assessment tool

Alex Rodriguez, MHIIM, CPhT

Author of DivertGuard — IHFDA Annual Conference presenter, ASHP Drug Diversion Certificate faculty, and HCCA speaker

Content Review Policy

How DivertGuard content is researched, reviewed, and kept current

Vendor & Association Directory

Reference listing of diversion prevention technology vendors and professional associations by category

Diversion Case Studies

Real-world drug diversion events with analysis and prevention lessons

Compliance Tools & Calculators

DEA 106 deadline calculator, controlled substance discrepancy calculator, and waste percentage calculator

Community
Discussion Forum

Ask questions and share lessons learned on diversion prevention with peers

Events & Conferences

Conferences, training, and webinars for diversion prevention, pharmacy compliance, and regulatory professionals

Free Diversion Prevention Toolkit for IHFDA Attendees

Free assessments, case data, and playbooks for IHFDA members and attendees, from a 3-time IHFDA presenter

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