Download or read book Va Health Care written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VA Health Care: Overview of VA's Capital Asset Management

Download or read book VA Health Care Overview of VA s Capital Asset Management written by Mark L. Goldstein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vet. Health Admin. (VHA) operates one of the largest integrated health care systems in the country. Better mgmt. of VHA's large inventory of aged capital assets could result in savings that could be used to enhance health care services for vets. In response, VHA initiated a process known as Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES). Through CARES, VHA sought to determine the future resources needed to provide health care to our nation's vets. This testimony describes: (1) how CARES contributes to VHA's capital planning process; (2) the extent to which VHA has implemented CARES decisions; and (3) the legal authorities that VHA has to manage its real property and the extent to which VHA has used these authorities.

Download or read book VA Health Care written by Mark L. Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VA health care key challenges to aligning capital assets and enhancing veterans care report to the Honorable Christopher S Bond U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Va Health Care written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates one of the largest health care systems in the country. In 1999, GAO reported that better management of VA's large inventory of aged capital assets could result in savings that could be used to enhance health care services for veterans. In response, VA initiated a process known as Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES). Through CARES, VA sought to enhance veteran care by the appropriate sizing, upgrading, and locating of VA facilities. GAO was asked to examine the CARES process. Specifically, GAO examined (1) how CARES contributes to VHA's capital planning process, (2) the extent to which the CARES process considered capital asset alignment alternatives, and (3) the extent to which VA has implemented CARES decisions and how this implementation has helped VA carry out its mission. To address these issues, we analyzed CARES documents, interviewed VA officials, and conducted six site visits, among other things.

Download or read book VA health care overview written by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.

Download or read book VA Health Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessing Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services and the Future of the U S Department of Veterans Affairs Health Infrastructure written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Va Health Care written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO noted that: (1) VA's large, aged infrastructure could be the biggest obstacle confronting its efforts to transform itself from a hospital-based operator to a health care provider that relies on integrated networks of VA and non-VA providers to meet veterans' health care needs; (2) over the next few years, VA could spend one of every four of its health care dollars operating, maintaining, and improving capital assets at its 181 major delivery locations that encompass over 4,700 buildings on 18,000 acres of land nationwide; (3) VA has delegated basic health care planning responsibilities to its 22 regional offices, each of which oversees from 5 to 11 major health care delivery locations; (4) each regional office has developed a 5-year business plan that includes management of the health care assets under its control; (5) these plans indicate that billions of dollars may be used to operate hundreds of unneeded buildings over the next 5 years or more; (6) this is because VA plans to continue to operate and therefore necessarily maintain its 181 major delivery locations, even though most locations operate in markets that include two or more VA locations; (7) if VA followed the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) guidelines on managing capital resources, in GAO's view, its planning would focus on assets needed to meet veterans' needs in 106 markets; (8) these markets include: (a) 66 with a single VA location; and (b) 40 with multiple locations; (9) VA's budgeting processes have weaknesses that could result in unwise capital asset investment decisions totalling hundreds of millions of dollars; (10) VA has significantly improved its centralized budget process by requiring more rigorous, systematic assessments of proposed major investments than VA has done previously; (11) GAO also expressed concerns about VA's decentralized assessment process for less expensive capital investments; (12) VA's 22 regional offices use varying approaches, which are considerably less rigorous than that used in VA's centralized process; (13) over the last 3 years, VA has significantly reduced the number of high-cost investment proposals, involving alterations or improvements, submitted for VA's centralized review and prioritization; and (14) VA could enhance veterans' health care benefits if it reduced the level of resources spent on underused or inefficient buildings and used these resources instead to provide health care more efficiently in existing locations or closer to where veterans live.

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Download or read book Va Health Care written by United States Accounting Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T-HEHS-99-83 VA Health Care: Capital Asset Planning and Budgeting Need Improvement

Download or read book Va Health Care written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VA Health Care: Framework for Analyzing Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services Decisions

Download or read book Case Study of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services as Applied to the Wyoming VA Healthcare Market written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Veterans Affairs has embarked on a sweeping initiative to align capital assets with patient demand in order to improve access, quality, and cost effectiveness of care to veterans now and in the future. This study documents the first four steps of the nine-step Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Service (CARES) process as it applies to the Sheridan market area. This process involved establishing a communication plan and leading teams that analyzed and validated data and developed a strategic plan for the Sheridan market. The outcome of the study suggests that improving access to levels prescribed by CARES standards is possible but very expensive in a highly rural market. However, improving access through conscientious strategic planning is possible and practical. The CARES process is an accelerated program that relies heavily upon data and projections. Data validity, expedience, and political pressure may affect the outcomes. Nonetheless, CARES is a sound and dynamic process for improving the cost, quality, and access of the care delivered to our nation s veterans.

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Download or read book Gao 05 429 Va Health Care written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-05-429 VA Health Care: Key Challenges to Aligning Capital Assets and Enhancing Veterans' Care