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 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 Quality of Care Issues at a Va Healthcare System written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality of care issues at a VA healthcare system .

Download or read book Quality of Care Issues at a VA Healthcare System written by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.

Download or read book Healthcare Inspection written by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VA Health Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quality of Care in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VA Health Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VA Health Care written by David P. Baine and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VA Has Not Fully Implemented Its Health Care Quality Assurance Systems written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Presentation of Health System Or Facility Data about Quality and Safety a Systematic Review written by U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) “Open Government Plan” outlines the agency's commitment to transparency, and defines transparency as both increasing access to public information and enabling better engagement and advocacy on behalf of Veterans. Key elements of the transparency initiative involve public presentation of health system and facility data about quality of care and safety. Examples include the VA Hospital Compare website, which provides outcomes and process data for selected diagnoses and the ASPIRE dashboard, which reports quality and safety goals for all VA hospitals. There are many reasons to make quality and safety information available to the public. One of the key goals of public reporting is to improve the quality of services. Theories and experience suggest multiple pathways from public reporting to health services improvement and ultimately to better patient outcomes. In a situation where patients and families have a choice among health care providers (systems or facilities), quality information makes it possible for patients to select providers based on performance. Public reporting also “levels the playing field” by making the knowledge about quality more accessible to patients. Without public reporting this information may only be known by providers. In turn, concern about loss of market share may motivate providers to improve processes and strive to improve outcomes. Publicly available data may also give provider organizations direct incentives to improve care. Report cards, rankings, and websites about quality allow organizations to compare their performance to that of their peers, but also make providers aware that others can make these comparisons as well. Concern about reputation can itself be a powerful motivator for change. Patient advocates, policy makers, and the media can also use publicly reported data to identify high and low performing organizations, track change over time, and promote high quality care. VA is committed to making its publicly reported performance data as accessible and useful as possible. This review and synthesis seeks to identify the key lessons for VA drawn from available research on public reporting that could be applied to future VA transparency efforts. The Key Questions were: 1. What is the most effective way of displaying quality and service information so that it is understandable? 2. How do patients prefer to receive or access this information? 3. What is the evidence that patients or their families use publicly reported quality and safety information to make informed health care decisions? 4. What is the evidence that public reporting of quality and safety information leads to improved quality of safety?

Download or read book Quality Management at the Veterans Health Administration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VA is now treating more than 5 million vets each year. The quality of care in the veterans¿ health system has been bolstered by concerted efforts to track performance measures, expand the use of health IT, manage chronic diseases, coordinate care by different providers, and enhance the provision of evidence-based medical practices. This report is an assessment of quality improvement, cost and utilization of services, and health IT in the VHA. It examines VHA¿s experience with quality improvement and health IT. The assessment also aims to improve understanding of how VHA¿s system serves its patients. That info. may prove useful as decisionmakers consider how veterans¿ health care might be affected by proposals for health care reform.

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 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed management issues at the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Medical Center in Salem, Virginia, focusing on how to: (1) restore confidence in the Center; and (2) ensure that high-quality patient services are provided. GAO found that: (1) new management initiatives and the appointment of a new medical center director have improved the medical center's work environment, restored staff and public confidence in the management of the facility, and begun to address quality-of-care issues; (2) although the new medical center director has resolved many labor-management issues and is attempting to reduce nurse staffing shortages, nurse staffing shortages continue; (3) medical records are incomplete; (4) staff psychiatrists are not conducting regular exams or performing other essential functions; (5) the center's quality assurance program needs improvement because staffing and records management problems continue and result in poor-quality care for some patients; and (6) management should ensure that the quality assurance program objectively and systematically monitors and improves the quality and appropriateness of the services delivered.

Download or read book Quality of Care Patient and Employee Safety and Management Effectiveness at the Marion VA Medical Center written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quality Initiatives Undertaken by the Veterans Health Administration written by Allison Percy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And introduction -- The health care system for veterans -- Quality improvements within VHA -- Appendix A: VistA outside the Veterans Health Administration -- Appendix B: Comparing the cost of care from the Veterans Health Administration and alternative sources -- Appendix C: The LinKS dashboard.