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state provided that the employee is acting within the scope of his/her employment and that injury or damage did not result from intentional wrongdoing. Students are covered under a separate certificate of insurance purchased by the University as they are not deemed state employees. Appendix VIII-13 contains the declaration page and policy for this coverage. The College’s University Police has primary responsibility for security and safety on campus. The department consists of University Police Officers and Security Officers who have the responsibility for crime prevention, building safety, fire and medical emergencies. Fire drills and building evacuation drills are conducted periodically and in accordance with the rules and regulations for Article 28 Diagnostic and Treatment Centers. Safety and security procedures are included in the UEC Policy and Procedure Manual (C-28: Child Protection Policy; E-4: Emergency Response Management Plan; L-1: Life Safety Management Plan; S-2: Safety; and S-5: Security Management Plan), which can be found in Appendix VIII-6 . The College’s policy and procedures for environmental safety and infection control are contained in Appendix 8 of the UEC Policy and Procedure Manual ( Appendix VIII-6 ). The Environmental Safety and Infection Control Committee promotes a safe and functional environment which monitors and improves patient and staff safety as well as reducing the possibility of acquiring and transmitting infections. On an annual basis all employees and students must complete the necessary infection control training and periodically attend course updates as mandated by state law. Credentialed optometrists and students are required to have active CPR certification. Incident reports dealing with patients are reviewed by the Director of Clinical Operations and the Chief Medical Officer to ensure that sentinel events as well as potential risk management issues are reviewed and that appropriate action is timely. Patient complaints are also reviewed for timeliness and appropriate follow up by senior management in the UEC. In addition, the QA&I program addresses risk management issues as they arise during record reviews. 8.3 The program must provide eye and vision care services, which are consistent with accepted and well-established health care standards such as clinical practice guidelines. The University Eye Center (UEC) utilizes the Clinical Practice Guidelines from the American Optometric Association’s (AOA) Clinical Practice Guidelines as published in C -4: The American Optometric (AOA) Clinical Practice Guidelines of the UEC Policy and Procedure Manual ( Appendix VIII-6 ). These guidelines represent the framework for the management of specific vision and ocular disorders, or visual-related sequelae of systemic disease and/or trauma. Following these guidelines assures that patient care rendered in the UEC is consistent with established standards of care. Clinical faculty have been instructed to incorporate the Clinical Practice Guidelines into their patient care processes at the UEC and into their clinically-based academic activities at the College. The AOA’s Clinical P ractice Guidelines are available in a folder on the desktop of the computer in each examination room, via SUNY Optometry’s library webpage (http://www.sunyopt.edu/library/resources/clinical_point_of_care#eye_disease_management) and at the AOA’s website https://www.aoa.org/optometrists/tools-and-resources/clinical-care-

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