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VHA Leadership and Workforce Development System (VHALWD (Prior Executive Information System (EIS)))
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-01T23:17:44.000Z<p>The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Leadership and Workforce Development System (VHALWD) has 36 separate databases that contain information on people, positions, and organizations, work groups, workforce, workforce and leadership classes, workforce development programs and participation, personal development plans, supervisory levels, mentor and coach attributes, High Performance Development Model (HPDM) core competency, intern data, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting, succession planning, workforce planning, senior executive information, applicant tracking and recruitment, Executive Career Field (ECF) position and performance information, and education funding and programs. The VHA Executive Management Program consists of the functions that fall under the purview of the VHA Executive Resources Board (ERB) and the VHA Performance Review Board (PRB). Their functions include executive development, recruitment and placement, organizational analysis, succession planning, workforce planning, EEO and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) assessment, workload tracking and reporting of human capital and HR, and individual and organizational performance assessment and recognition. The method used to collect this information is a proprietary system using relational database technology. Information from these databases are joined and expanded to inform programs and processes. This combination of information is used in the administration of talent management, VHA human capital objectives, and in the support of the ERB and PRB functions.</p>
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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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VA National Bed Control System
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-01T23:19:32.000Z<p>The VA National Bed Control System records the levels of operating, unavailable and authorized beds at each VAMC, and it tracks requests for changes in these levels. For changes in operating, unavailable and authorized bed levels, the Director of a Medical Center or his/her authorized delegate enters a bed change request into the Bed Control Database. A Bed Control Database trigger automatically notifies the respective Veterans Integrated Support Network (VISN) director. The VISN director's designated staff reviews the request and either approves, disapproves, or cancels it through the Bed Control Database. If a medical center request is approved by the VISN director, a Bed Control Database trigger notifies staff in the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management (10N) to review and take action, followed by the appropriate VHA Program Office and then the Under Secretary for Health. Once a request has been approved, cancelled, or disapproved by either the Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management, VHA Program Office, or the Under Secretary for Health, the medical center director and the appropriate VISN director are automatically notified of the action. The approval process is tracked and visible to the authorized user of the system. When changes are approved, the database updates its bed level information accordingly. Pertinent justification and documents associated with each bed change request are stored in the database.</p>
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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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COIN 0022 CARS Monthly Totals, Part I - 9/30/2015
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-11-03T03:55:06.000Z<p>CARS Monthly Totals, Part I - 9/30/2015; Activity in terms of establishments and dispositions for CARS on a monthly basis</p>
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Nuclear Medicine National Headquarter System
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-01T23:21:55.000Z<p>The Nuclear Medicine National HQ System database is a series of MS Excel spreadsheets and Access Database Tables by fiscal year. They consist of information from all Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) performing or contracting nuclear medicine services in Veterans Affairs medical facilities. The medical centers are required to complete questionnaires annually (RCS 10-0010-Nuclear Medicine Service Annual Report). The information is then manually entered into the Access Tables, which includes: * Distribution and cost of in-house VA - Contract Physician Services, whether contracted services are made via sharing agreement (with another VA medical facility or other government medical providers) or with private providers. * Workload data for the performance and/or purchase of PET/CT studies. * Organizational structure of services. * Updated changes in key imaging service personnel (chiefs, chief technicians, radiation safety officers). * Workload data on the number and type of studies (scans) performed, including Medicare Relative Value Units (RVUs), also referred to as Weighted Work Units (WWUs). WWUs are a workload measure calculated as the product of a study's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, which consists of total work costs (the cost of physician medical expertise and time), and total practice costs (the costs of running a practice, such as equipment, supplies, salaries, utilities etc). Medicare combines WWUs together with one other parameter to derive RVUs, a workload measure widely used in the health care industry. WWUs allow Nuclear Medicine to account for the complexity of each study in assessing workload, that some studies are more time consuming and require higher levels of expertise. This gives a more accurate picture of workload; productivity etc than using just 'total studies' would yield. * A detailed Full-Time Equivalent Employee (FTEE) grid, and staffing distributions of FTEEs across nuclear medicine services. * Information on Radiation Safety Committees and Radiation Safety Officers (RSOs). Beginning in 2011 this will include data collection on part-time and non VA (contract) RSOs; other affiliations they may have and if so to whom they report (supervision) at their VA medical center.<em>Collection of data on nuclear medicine services' progress in meeting the special needs of our female veterans.</em> Revolving documentation of all major VA-owned gamma cameras (by type) and computer systems, their specifications and ages. * Revolving data collection for PET/CT cameras owned or leased by VA; and the numbers and types of PET/CT studies performed on VA patients whether produced on-site, via mobile PET/CT contract or from non-VA providers in the community.* Types of educational training/certification programs available at VA sites * Ongoing funded research projects by Nuclear Medicine (NM) staff, identified by source of funding and research purpose. * Data on physician-specific quality indicators at each nuclear medicine service.* Academic achievements by NM staff, including published books/chapters, journals and abstracts. * Information from polling field sites re: relevant issues and programs Headquarters needs to address. * Results of a Congressionally mandated contracted quality assessment exercise, also known as a Proficiency study. Study results are analyzed for comparison within VA facilities (for example by mission or size), and against participating private sector health care groups. * Information collected on current issues in nuclear medicine as they arise. Radiation Safety Committee structures and membership, Radiation Safety Officer information and information on how nuclear medicine services provided for female Veterans are examples of current issues.The database is now stored completely within MS Access Database Tables with output still presented in the form of Excel graphs and tables.</p>
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Disaster Emergency Medical Personnel System (DEMPS)
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-12-01T23:18:26.000Z<p>The Disaster Emergency Medical Personnel System (DEMPS) is the Veterans Health Administrations main deployment program for clinical and non-clinical staff to an emergency or disaster. The DEMPS Program may be used for an internal VA mission, as well as supporting a mission after a Presidential Disaster Declaration under the National Response Frameworks Emergency Support Function #8 (Public Health and Medical Services). Interested, qualified VHA staff can apply online by submitting a DEMPS Application. DEMPS Coordinators and Administrators can manage volunteer data by accessing DEMPS Administration.The DEMPS Program is made up of the following entities:The DEMPS Volunteers (Full-time VHA employee, or Retiree Emergency Reserve Corps Volunteer (ERC)) VAMC DEMPS Coordinator DEMPS VAMC Facility Support Staff (Fiscal, Payroll, and Travel) DEMPS VISN Points of Contact DEMPS National Program Manager VHA Office of Emergency Management staff (Area Emergency Managers, and Regional Emergency Managers) Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management, and The DEMPS database. In order for DEMPS to work successfully, all eight entities above must work together to deploy the DEMPS Volunteer to an emergency or disaster site.The DEMPS database was developed to collect specific information on full-time VHA medical personnel (clinical and non-clinical) and Retiree Emergency Reserve Corps (ERC) Volunteers who have volunteered and been approved by their Medical Center Director to be deployed (full-time staff or ERC Volunteers) in the event of a disaster, or to back fill a medical center (ERC Volunteers). When disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, etc., occur and the state and local resources to handle the response/recovery process are overwhelmed, the state in which the disaster occurs may request federal assistance. In this case, a Presidential Disaster Declaration is issued and the National Response Framework (NRF) is activated. Once the damage to the area and needs have been assessed, and it is determined that medical resources are required, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may task VA to provide these resources. Generally, these requests are for medical personnel (nurses, physicians, pharmacists, etc.), pharmaceutical (or other medical) supplies, and medical equipment. However, depending on the mission, VHA may deploy non-clinical staff to support the infrastructure of the deployment.</p>
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State Summary: Maine
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-05-15T21:52:36.000Z<p>This summary describes the programs and services VA provided in Maine in fiscal year 2015.</p>
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State Summary: Maine
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-05-15T21:56:35.000Z<p>This is a summary of the programs and services provided by VA in Maine in fiscal year 2014.</p>
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COIN 0145 MONTHLY CRS TOTALS REPORT MAR 2015
www.datahub.va.gov | Last Updated 2020-11-03T03:55:05.000Z<p>COIN 0145 MONTHLY CRS TOTALS REPORT Nov 2014</p>