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Veterans Integrated Services Networks (VISN), Markets, Submarkets, Sectors and Counties by Geographic Location
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2024-02-15T19:42:03.000ZThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides healthcare services to its veterans across the USA including territories and possessions. Healthcare services are delivered through 18 geographically divided administrative areas called Veterans Integrated Services Networks (VISN). Each VISN is divided into healthcare areas called Markets and Submarkets. Each Submarket is divided into Sectors and each Sector comprises one or more counties. In 1995 a process was created to coordinate and review the realignment of the Heath Care Networks. The Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) process established VISN 'subsets' called Markets, Submarkets and Sectors which, being smaller than VISNs, allowed for more precise analyses for greater access measurement to health care. The County layer is the base geographic unit of the VISN-Market-Submarket-Sector-County hierarchy. The key attribute in this data set is the FIPS which is defined as a string of 5 characters with unique alphanumeric combinations for each site. The first 2 are the State FIPS code and the next 3 designate the County FIPS code. Example: '01031' is the FIPS for Coffee County, Alabama. A Sector is a cluster of geographically adjacent counties within a VA Submarket. The process of aggregating counties into sectors uses a combination of automated algorithms and manual inspection of maps. The key attribute in this data set is the SECTOR which is defined as a string of eight characters broken down into four parts in the order of VISN (2-char), Market (1-char), Submarket (1-char), and Sector(1-char) connected by a hyphen. For example, Sector 12-a-3-A indicates VISN 12, Market a, Submarket 3 and Sector A. Sub-markets reflect a clustering of the enrollee population within a market and are an aggregation of Sectors. The key attribute in this data set is the SUBMARKET which is defined as a string of six characters broken down in three parts in the order of VISN (2-char), Market (1-char), and Submarket (1-char) connected by a hyphen. For example, Submarket 12-a-3 indicates VISN 12, Market a, and Submarket 3. CARES defines Markets as "an aggregated geographic area having a sufficient population and geographic size to both benefit from the coordination and planning of health care services and to support a full healthcare delivery system (i.e. primary care, mental health care, inpatient care, tertiary care, and long term care)". Each Market is built from Submarkets. The key attribute in this data set is the MARKET which is defined as a string of four characters broken down in two parts in the order of HCN (2-char) and Market (1-char) connected by a hyphen. For example, Market 12-a indicates VISN 12 and Market a. The key attribute in the VISN data set is defined as a string of two characters from 01-23, excluding 3, 11, 13, 14 and 18; a VISN also has an officially recognized VA title. For example, VISN 06 is the Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network. VISNs can span across neighboring countries to include areas that are not contiguous. For example, VISN 08 includes Florida and Puerto Rico in addition to most of Florida and southern Georgia, and VISN 20 includes Alaska and parts of the northwest conterminous United States. Each VISN is built from Markets, Submarkets, Sectors and Counties derived from Census (2010) County data. Because VISNs are composed of VHA markets, VISN boundaries align with the outer edges of their constituent markets’ boundaries. Markets cross state borders wherever it is necessary to keep outpatient clinics (e.g. Community-Based Outpatient Clinics(CBOCs)) and their catchment areas in the same market as their parent medical centers. Thus, VISN boundaries also cross state borders. In 2016 senior leadership considered the challenge of conforming VISN boundaries to MyVA Districts, which coincide with state boundaries. It was agreed that VHA would not separate outpatient clinics from their parent medical centers due to added complexity. Many outpat
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Authorization Management Service
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2022-03-21T16:12:31.000Z<p>Provides an enterprise-wide capability for managing individual authorizations for access to protected information. An Individual Authorization is an abstract concept and can be realized by different possible instances of concrete authorization types. Currently, the supported authorization types are Personal Representative Delegation (PR Delegation) and VA Healthcare Proxy delegation (VAHP Delegation). Delegations are a type of authorization whereby a delegator,typically a Veteran or Beneficiary, delegates specific access privileges to a delegaten such as Caregivers, Family members, Legal guardians, etc.</p>
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Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 6, Rates of Use within Age Groups by Gender - FY2018
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-22T14:12:30.000ZVA Program Use Rates within Age Groups by Gender - FY2018. Data underlying the fifth figure of Part 1 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.
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Profile of Rural Veterans: 2014
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-05-15T21:02:08.000Z<p>VA released Profile of Rural Veterans: 2014. located on the Reports page under the Population category. This profile uses data from the 2014 American Community Survey data to compare the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Veterans who live in rural and urban areas. The profile also compares Rural Veterans with Rural non-Veterans</p>
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Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 5, Age Distribution of Users by Gender FY2018
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-22T14:09:58.000ZAge Distribution of Users by Gender FY2018. Data underlying the fourth figure of Part 1 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.
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Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 4, Trend in Rate of Users by Gender over Time
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-22T13:01:02.000ZTrend in Rate of Users by Gender over Time, FY 2009 - 2018. Data underlying the third figure of Part 1 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.
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Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig. 9 - Use Rate of Genders within Era
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-22T14:21:26.000ZRate of Veteran use of VA programs and services by gender within each era of conflict in which they first served. Data underlying the eighth figure of Part 1 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.
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Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 8, Percentage distributions of genders across eras of initial service
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-22T14:19:18.000ZPercentage distributions of genders across eras of initial service. Data underlying the seventh figure of Part 1 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.
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Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Table 1, Participation Trend by Gender FY 2008-2019
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-22T12:58:28.000ZParticipation Trend by Gender FY 2008-2019. Reports number of participants in one or more VA programs. Data underlying the first table of Part 1 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.
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Profile of Women Veterans: 2016
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-05-15T21:29:33.000Z<p>VA released Profile of Women Veterans: 2016 located on the Reports page under the Population category. This profile shows the demographics and socioeconomic characteristics of women Veterans. It compares women to men Veterans and women Veterans to women non-Veterans. This report uses data from the 2014 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample.</p>