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An 8 page paper discussing the Veterans Administration's (VA) transformation in health care quality, to the extent that VA hospitals and clinics now may provide the highest-quality care in a local area rather than care of the last resort. Addressing operations, the purpose here is to review the strategies of program design and evaluation of a VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) to comment on staffing considerations. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCarVAclin.rtf
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Administration (VA) operates 157 hospitals, 134 nursing homes, and 887 clinics (Gearon, 2005). In years past few of those operations would have been characterized as operating according to the
precepts of high quality, but the VA undertook reengineering activities in the mid-1990s. The result of that effort has been that not only has quality improved system-wide, in many
cases VA-based care is the best available in a local area (Longman, 2005). There is much more attention dedicated to operations and staffing
now than in the past. The purpose here is to review the strategies of program design and evaluation of a VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) to comment on staffing
considerations. A Local Clinic The CBOC in Knoxville, Tennessee recently underwent transformation to come in line with the VAs overall effort. The
change initiative has been a decade-long effort. Knoxvilles CBOC is associated with the James H. Quillen Veterans Administration Medical Center in the Mountain
Home section of Johnson City, Tennessee, in the eastern district of the state. The James H. Quillen VAMC is a tertiary care facility that also maintains a nursing home
and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its patients to Mountain Home, providing transportation for those requesting it.
The Knoxville CBOC provides primary care for some of its patients, and follow-up care for others who have been treated at VA hospitals in
any location. The ubiquitous "paperwork" initiating the process of becoming registered with the CBOC still exists, but it consists only of two sheets of paper and is used only
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