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The Veterans Health Administration says its best ideas for improvement come from its own employees. It says putting those ideas into practice saved the agency nearly $23 million.
The Veterans Health Administration's Diffusion of Excellence Initiative so far has worked with 3,198 VHA employees to replicate 344 practices, which has resulted in cost savings worth about $22.6 million, the agency said.
In today's Federal Newscast, a Government Accountability Office report finds Veterans Health Administration has no rules or stipulations to ensure the equipment is properly processed after use.
Medical house calls largely disappeared sometime in the 1960s but now they're making a comeback, only virtually.
The latest research and advancements from the Veterans Affairs Department include a power-wheelchair that can climb stairs and curbs, new prosthetics and a powerful study on the impacts of opioids.
A small group of senators says the Veterans Health Administration should have its own chief information officer, who would report to the department's undersecretary for health and would oversee all management and procurement decisions related to the health administration's IT systems. It's one of a few specific recommendations from the VA Commission on Care that are beginning to appear in new pieces of legislation.
A Veterans Affairs Inspector General report caused the agency to take immediate action and rethink who it put in charge of the Washington, D.C. medical center. The report detailed serious deficiencies in inventory management, including surgeries and other procedures being performed with expired or possibly non-sterile materials, or postponed due to a lack of supplies altogether.
Veterans groups are calling for an 8.3 percent increase in medical funding for the Veterans Health Administration and a 10 percent overall increase for the Department of Veterans Affairs next year. Carlos Fuentes, legislative director for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to provide details on 'independent budget' recommendations and others.
Human resource issues hinder the Veterans Health Administration ability to recruit and hire best medical staff. Robert Goldenkoff, GAO director of strategic issues, discusses on Federal Drive with Tom Temin some suggestions the agency has to fix VHA's problem.
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Dr. David Shulkin, the undersecretary for health at VA, says the agency needs better integration with private sector medical providers in order to "re-engineer" the way veterans access treatment.
Roughly half of a congressionally appointed commission to reform the Veterans Affairs Department suggested an expansion of community care for veterans and a systematic closure of some VA medical facilities. The "strawman document" emerged as the VA pilots a few new programs to help veterans gain more control over their health care.
While new laws and programs have focused on patients, employee morale remains low at the Veterans Health Administration. As long as that remains the case, patients will not get the best from the VA's health system, says VA Under Secretary of Health Dr. David Shulkin.
Mark Day, the General Services Administration’s deputy assistant commissioner in the Integrated Technology Services office in the Federal Acquisition Service, and Kathleen Turco, the chief financial officer for the Veterans Health Administration, are among a growing wave of longtime federal employees retiring.