Proceedings of the Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care, Part 4Department of Veterans Affairs, 1991 |
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ACUTE 80 Administration affiliations ambulatory appropriate areas average beds budget Category Census CHAMPUS CHANGE MODEL column C.
E. Column Column E divided Column F Commission Committee construction continue coordination copayments costs decision tree dental Department of Veterans domiciliary educational programs eligibility employees episodes episodes of care evaluation federal fiscal funds geriatric Health Services hospice care hospital improve increased inpatient JCAHO length of stay Medicaid medical centers medical schools Medicare Medicine million needs non-VA nursing home organization outpatient outpatient clinics patients percent personnel physicians planning private sector projects PSYC psychiatry Quality Management Range of Services rates rehabilitation reimbursement Resource Sharing responsibility service-connected sharing agreements staff surgery tertiary tertiary care Total Quality Management treatment tree sort users VA medical centers VA-DOD VA's VAMC veteran population Veterans Affairs Veterans Health VHS&RA workload
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Page 38 - The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.
Page 51 - Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in immediate or future outlays.
Page 13 - ... the standard of medical practice in the United States by the expression of facilities for graduate education. The purpose of the Veterans' Administration is simple: affording the veteran a much higher standard of medical care than could be given him with a wholly fulltime medical service. The purposes of both parties being unselfish, and there being no conflict of objectives, there can be no serious disagreement over methods. It will be recognized that the Veterans...
Page 16 - Will be diplomates of their respective boards and acceptable to such boards for direction of resident training. Exception may be made in the case of a veteran who has completed the first part of his board examination, but whose completion of the examination was interrupted by the exigencies of the military service.
Page 13 - Subject: Policy in association of veterans' hospitals with medical schools. 1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS (a) Necessity for mutual understanding and cooperation. — The Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration is embarking upon a program that is without precedent in the history of Federal hospitalization. It would, therefore, be most unusual if numerous problems did not arise for which no fully satisfactory solution were immediately apparent. Such problems frequently can be...
Page 40 - Administrator may. when he determines it to be in the best interest of the prevailing standards of the Veterans' Administration medical care program, make arrangements, by contract or other form of agreement, as set forth in...
Page 13 - Administration is charged with certain legal responsibilities in connection with the medical care of veterans which it cannot delegate, if it would. Yet the discharge of these responsibilities need not interfere with the exercise by the schools of their prerogatives in the field of education. All medical authorities of the Veterans' Administration will cooperate fully at all times with the representatives of associated schools and other centers.
Page 27 - PL 94r-581, §205(a)(l).) (b) In order to carry out more effectively the primary function of the Department of Medicine and Surgery and in order to assist in providing an adequate supply of health...
Page 13 - The schools of medicine and other teaching centers are cooperating with the three-fold purpose of giving the veteran the highest quality of medical care, of affording the medical veteran the opportunity for post-graduate study which he was compelled to forego in serving his country, and of raising generally the standard of medical practice in the United States by the expression of facilities for graduate education. The purpose of the Veterans...
Page 6 - The surviving spouse or child of a veteran who died as a result of a serviceconnected condition; or who at the time of death was permanently and totally disabled from a service-connected condition.