Author: United States. Congressional Budget OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acute diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Projected Acute-care Bed Needs of Veterans Administration Hospitals
Author: United States. Congressional Budget OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acute diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Veterans
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289017514
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The North Chicago Veterans Administration (VA) hospital was constructed in 1925 as a long-term neuropsychiatric facility with supporting medical and surgical capability. Since 1974, the hospital has attempted to expedite the return of psychiatric patients to the community and, concurrent with the reduction in the number of psychiatric beds, the hospital has taken steps to upgrade and expand its general medical and surgical role in VA Medical District 17. An affiliation was proposed with the University of Chicago Medical School. The transfer has not occurred, however, because the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare questioned the propriety of the university's proposed relocation and the efforts of the VA to transfer land to the university. The hospital's plan to expand its acute-care capability was not based on demonstrated need; instead, it was based on the assumption that expanded capability would lead to increased demand for acute-care beds. The hospital's plan did not recognize the availability of existing acute-care medical and surgical beds at three other VA hospitals in the Chicago area. These beds are more than will be needed to meet projected 1985 acute-care requirements for the area. VA is planning too many acute-care beds and too few long-term-care beds for the Chicago area. The Administrator of Veterans Affairs should: (1) suspend further expansion of the acute-care capabilities at the North Chicago VA hospital; (2) reduce the number of acute-care beds at the hospital and redistribute them as necessary for long-term care; and (3) reduce the number of acute-care beds at the other three VA hospitals and redistribute them as necessary for lower levels of care.
Veterans
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289232467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The process used by the Veterans Administration to determine the bed size of new and replacement health care facilities was evaluated. Three of eight hospitals currently authorized for construction were analyzed. GAO's results from its computer-based model nearly agrees with the VA's proposed number of beds, but showed that the mix of beds was wrong. The VA was planning too many acute care beds and too few nursing home care beds. Given the significant cost differentials, building and operating costs can be reduced if GAO analyses were used to determine the mix of hospital beds.
Constructing New VA Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, Unjustified
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Veterans
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289227739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Veterans Administration's (VA) rationale and basis for determining that it needed a 538-bed hospital and 240-bed nursing home as part of its proposed modernization of the Philadelphia medical center. GAO found that VA failed to adequately justify the adjustments it made to the computer model's results when it established its hospital bed requirement for 1990. Consequently, the hospital's size, which served as the requirement for both the conceptual design and preliminary planning contracts that VA awarded, appears to have been overstated. GAO also found that projected increases for some hospital bed sections were not offset by reductions in other sections, which resulted in a double counting of bed requirements for some sections. GAO was unable to assess whether other adjustments to the model's results were justified because VA officials could not locate documentation supporting those adjustments. Finally, the proposed construction of a 240-bed nursing home was justified because there is no space available at the medical center to renovate or convert space into a nursing home care unit, and the planners followed VA central office guidance and adequately considered local needs and resources as well as alternatives to new construction in their decision.
Construction, Alterations, and Acquisition of Veterans' Administration Medical Facilities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on HospitalsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Increase Bed Capacity of VA Hospitals
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital size
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Considers S. Con. Res. 13, expressing the sense of Congress that the authorized bed capacity for all VA hospitals should be increased.
Better Use of Outpatient Services and Nursing Care Bed Facilities Could Improve Health Care Delivery to Veterans
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital utilization
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Construction, Alteration, and Acquisition of Veterans' Administration Medical Facilities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on HospitalsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
List of Publications
Author: United States. Congressional Budget OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description