VA Medical Center Quality Improvement at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center The Philadelphia Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center is in the process of improving their quality of care for patients. The VA Medical Center provides care to veterans of Continue Reading...
Furthermore, the VA hospitals are devoted to new research on Parkinson's disease in the development of surgical treatment for late-stage patients for whom medical therapy is no longer effective and development of new medications, which are more effe Continue Reading...
components of value-based purchasing (VBP) that are most pertinent to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) based on its vital mission to provide high-quality health care services to the nation's veterans while identifying opportunities to re Continue Reading...
Healthcare Agency Evaluation: Jacksonville, Florida Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates a national network of healthcare facilities, including medical centers, outpatients clinics, Continue Reading...
Provider Education for Chronic Pain Management Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest healthcare provider in the United States and one of the largest in the world. In fact, fully half of the physicians in the United States rec Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform Reform and Electronic Medical Records An Interview with Bernie Saunders "Imagine a world where everything important about a patient is known to the physician the first time that patient presents," says Andrew Rubin, vice presiden Continue Reading...
cabinet-level agency in the U.S. government termed "Agency X" herein is the largest healthcare provider in the nation. With a multi-billion dollar budget, virtually universal support from the American public and a national network of healthcare faci Continue Reading...
Organizational Development at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been a cabinet-level agency since 1989 that is tasked with providing an array of services to eligible veterans and their familie Continue Reading...
Making available recovery program treatment besides collaborating with partnership to leverage resources and knowledge is a role that I perform in efforts of helping clients access care. I am also involved in continual community-based quality improv Continue Reading...
Benchmarking Human Resources: Monitoring the Effectiveness of a "Tell it to the Director" Initiative on Patient Satisfaction at a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center As the nation's largest healthcare provider, the Department of Veterans A Continue Reading...
This performance data will be graphed to identify general trends and specific repeat offenders for corrective action, including contacting the individual(s) responsible for minute preparation to clarify requirements and reiterate their responsibilit Continue Reading...
Veterans & Retirees; Is Government Keeping its Promise This study aimed at exploring the experiences and perceptions of Veterans belonging to Lousiana and Mississippi about three variables; the accessibility of organization; the accessibility of Continue Reading...
Organizational Assessment as Impetus for Change at a Vet Center Organizational Assessment as an Impetus for Change at a Vet Center Organizational Context. Every type of organization has, or should have, as a major goal, the need to optimize the pro Continue Reading...
Force 12: Image of Nursing. The VA recognizes the importance of individual care to the perception of quality healthcare in its facilities. Even if the entire organization operates in an effective and compassionate manner, if the nurse that cares fo Continue Reading...
VHA Managerial Challenge In recent years, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has experienced a great deal of challenges ranging from lack of accountability and lack of employee apprehension to mismanagement of finances. In particular, Continue Reading...
Reducing Length of Stays on Critical Care Wards in a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates the nation's largest healthcare system and provides training for more than half of all of the Continue Reading...
Patients in hospitals often complain of pain regardless of the diagnosis. Several activities in a patient's life contribute to pain. Some of the activities include amount of sleep, daily chores and quality of life (Alaloul, Williams, Myers, Jones, &a Continue Reading...
Dropping the interest rates and doing other things to make consumers breathe a little easier when they make a purchase shows that the country is pulling together, which is something that the recession is teaching almost everyone in America - that pe Continue Reading...
Fault: An Alternative to the Current Tort-Based System in England and Wales The United Kingdom statistics regarding claims THE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM OBSTACLES TO DUE PROCESS THE CASE FOR REFORM THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT THE RISING COST OF LI Continue Reading...
Department of Veterans Affairs Claims Processing Dilemmas Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a cabinet-level agency in the U.S. government. The mission of the VA is taken from Lincoln's second inaugural address and is to "care for him who shall Continue Reading...
Bioethics: Transplant Case Study thorough examination of any "real life" ethical question involves the examination of all of the issues at hand. It is no different for issues of problematic bioethics. Thus, in consideration of the famous "botched hea Continue Reading...
The authors describe findings from a survey designed to gather baseline data about changes organizations experience after implementing the Clinical Practice Model framework, and report how the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center staff used the s Continue Reading...
In addition, contracts for supplies or other services takes 6 to 9 months to establish. He says that a lot of companies won't even bid on VA contracts because of this. This results in higher costs, with the exception of pharmaceuticals, because the Continue Reading...
5) Celebrate the customer decision and ask for feedback- Many customers will be with us for the duration of their lives. Everyone will inevitably become sick and will need to make tough decisions in regards to their health. Whatever their decision, Continue Reading...
Organizational Development Contracting Process at the Department of Veterans Affairs Organizational development (OD) consultation is a complex enterprise, and the contracting process that is used to define and manage the work can also be a challeng Continue Reading...
" (1999) Moran states that it has been demonstrated in many studies that a "familial aggregation f risk factors for obesity exist and the family "provides the child's major social learning environment." (1999) Surgical and Pharmacological Treatment Continue Reading...
(Worcestershire Diabetes: a New model of care Stakeholder event, 2007) The continuum of care for the diabetic patient is shown in the following illustration labeled Figure 1. Diabetes: Continuum of Care Source: Worcestershire Diabetes: a New mode Continue Reading...
(Chizek, 2003) The Role legal nurse consultant may provide service in a number of roles, including but not limited to: Consulting expert Testifying expert Facility-based investigator Trainer and in-service presenter Peer reviewer Quality impr Continue Reading...
First of all only a scant few of these Veterans groups will acknowledge the "promise" of free health care; for the most part these groups will tout the benefits already promised by the Veterans Administration and assert that cuts in these benefits Continue Reading...
VA and Medical Care One key factor to be taken into account, while evaluating the healthcare structure of the United States (U.S.) Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), is the number of veterans actually availing themselves of VA medical services. Ov Continue Reading...
Veteran/Purple Heart Recipient CAREER Profile Highly qualified and well-rounded healthcare administrator that has a strong and diverse background in healthcare, operations, facility management, strategic planning, Lean, healthcare development and r Continue Reading...
Its main goals are to examine and evaluate the main areas requiring improvements. The technology transfer programs are the key information sources, which enables the veteran access the latest technologies that can lead to improvement of their liveli Continue Reading...
Practice Experience Interviews Interview with "Jennifer," RN, MPH, director of quality assurance at a Veterans Affairs medical center. In a telephonic interview with this nursing professional, questions were posed concerning how research is found, Continue Reading...
The subjects were 613 injured Army personnel Military Deployment Services TF Report 13 admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from March 2003 to September 2004 who were capable of completing the screening battery. Soldiers were assessed at appr Continue Reading...
SWOT Analysis DraftSection I: SWOT TableThe organization of interest is the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) which operates the nations largest integrated network of health care services, providing caring for 9 million enrolled veterans annu Continue Reading...
Quality and Sustainability Paper Part Two - Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Medication Error Rates by Nursing Staff As reported previously, medication errors can occur in virtually any treatment setting, including patients’ homes, but the p Continue Reading...
Problem and Solutions at the Veterans Health Administration The chances are good that most Americans have either received health care services from the Department of Veterans Affairs’s (VA’s) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) directly Continue Reading...
Strategic Leadership and Future Delivery Models The issue of life expectancy at birth is a relatively novel one. Before the 19th century for instance, the United Kingdom -- the country with the longest time-series of measured life expectancy -- had Continue Reading...
