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VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 1
NOVA 36th Annual Meeting
June 24, 2016
Deborah Dort, M.D. Deputy Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health
Veterans Health Administration
VA’s Vision for Change: Top Priorities
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Our Mission
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With the words, “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan,” President Lincoln affirmed the government’s obligation to care for those injured during the war and to provide for the families of those who perished on the battlefield.
Core Values: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect &
Excellence
Core Characteristics: Trustworthy, Accessible, Quality, Innovative,
Agile & Integrated
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Our Mission
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“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.” – George Washington
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Eight of the 12 Priorities are about directly improving service to Veterans:
1. Improve the Veteran Experience*2. Increase Access to Health Care*3. Improve Community Care*4. Deliver a Unified Veteran Experience5. Modernize Contact Centers6. Improve Compensation & Pension Examination7. Develop a Simplified Appeals Process8. Reduce Veteran Homelessness
SecVA’s 12 Breakthrough Priorities
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Four of the Priorities represent critical enablers to reform internal systems and give employees the tools and resources they need to consistently deliver an exceptional Veteran experience:
1. Improve the employee experience* 2. Staff Critical Positions*3. Transform the Office of Information & Technology4. Transform Supply Chain
SecVA’s 12 Breakthrough Priorities
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Under Secretary for Health’s Top 5 Priorities
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Veterans First: Trust in VA Care
Improved Access
Increased Employee Engagement
Building a High-Performing Network
Consistency of Best Practice
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Increasing Access to Health Care
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Will require a multi-pronged approach to manage clinical processes • This includes the recent (January 2016) deployment of a real-time
Health Operations Dashboard.
• In the second quarter FY16, VA launched a myAccess Deployment Center to provide facility-level coaching and consultation.
• VA will also expand its alternatives to an office-based visit using Telehealth, Secure Messaging, and other modalities.
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Nursing Role in Access
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• Veterans’ needs will be met at the right time and place and by the right person appropriate to their clinical situation• Not just an outpatient clinic
appointment issue but having appropriate beds in the right levels• Nursing coverage is appropriate to
deliver care so that access is available
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Improve the Veteran Experience
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SECVA’s Vision: Veterans Affairs as the #1 customer-service agency in the Federal government
Build trust one experience at a time – measures on surveys will include:
o Effectiveness: “I got the service I needed.” o Ease: “It was easy to get the service I
needed.” o Engagement: “I felt like a valued
customer.”
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• By September 30, 2017, reach 90% agreement with the statement “I trust VA to fulfill our country’s commitment to Veterans.”
• Because this is a new measure, VA will establish the baseline in FY16 and add the measure to surveys covering all of VA’s primary services and product lines.
Improve the Veteran Experience
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Improve the Veteran Experience
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Veterans First: Trust in VA Care
WHAT’S YOUR ROLE?
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Nursing’s Role: Veterans First – Trust in VA Care
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Caring for your patients with personal and proactive attention helps earn high trust from Veterans, their families and caregivers.
Positive experiences lead to positive stories and further build the trust critical to our mission.
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Improve Community Care
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Building a High-Performing Network
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Transforming VA Community Care
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Our Goal for Community Care
Deliver a program that is easy to understand, simple to administer, and meets the needs of Veterans,
community providers, and VA Staff
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Transforming VA Community Care
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VA is taking immediate steps to improve stakeholders’ experiences while also planning and implementing long-term improvements for the new community care
program.
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Improve Community Care
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Building a High-Performing Network
WHAT’S YOUR ROLE?
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Nursing’s Role in Building a High-Performing Network
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Contributing to a strong network of coordinated care between the VA and the community to best serve Veterans’ needs
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VA is a leader in the application of best practices
• VA is a leader in creating and applying best practices, as evidenced in comparative studies of VA and the private sector.
• Four peer reviewed studies demonstrate that VA outperforms private industry in several areas, to include: – Mental health care quality1
– Risk-adjusted mortality rates for patients with cardiovascular conditions2
– Clinical care quality performance meaures3
– Cancer care4,5
References: 1. Watkins KE, et al. “The Quality of Medication Treatment for Mental Disorders...” Psychiatr Serv. 2016 Apr 1;67(4):391-6.2. Nuti SV, et. Al. “Association of Admission to Veterans Affairs Hospitals vs Non–Veterans Affairs Hospitals...” JAMA. 2016;315(6):582-592.3. Trivedi AN, et al. “Agreement Between HEDIS Performance Assessments in the VA and Medicare Advantage…” Inquiry. 2016 Mar 31;53.4. Kizer KW, Wilson NJ. “Oncology Management by the “New” Veterans Health Administration.” Cancer. 06/1998; 82(10 Suppl):2003-9.5. Keating NL, Landrym MB, Lamont EB, et al. “Quality of care for older patients with cancer in the Veterans Health Administration versus the private sector: a
cohort study.” Ann Intern Med. 2011 Jun 7;154(11):727-36
Best Practices
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300 Submissions received in first Under Secretary for Health (USH) Promising Practices competition
35,351Visits to the online Best Practices Community since November
28 Medical Center and VISN directors committed to this effort by serving as the first Shark Tank “Sharks”
434,865 Twitter Views of #VADiffusion over two days in March
70 Sites participating in the Initiative
250+ submissionsEvaluated by VHACO SMEs in each category
40 Semi-FinalistsEvaluated by Field "Peer" SMEs
20 FinalistsEvaluated by Field leaders in "Shark Tank"
13 Gold Status
Select Accomplishments by the Numbers
Final Gold Status selections were made
by the Diffusion Council Governance
Board
Best Practices
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VHA Gold Status Practice Highlights
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Practice Summary
eScreening Mobile screening tool that inputs key data from the waiting room to the health record. Decreased time in clinic by 17 minutes per Veteran at San Diego, allowing for more time to discuss urgent patient needs.
Healthcare Decision Planning via Group Visits
Nearly 1,200 Veterans have attended a facilitated group discussion on health care decision planning in Little Rock; 85% took steps to develop a more comprehensive care plan.
Regional Liver Cancer Tumor Board
Virtual forum pools experts across a region to provide more timely care to Veterans. Reduced time from abnormal image recognition to diagnosis by 24 days in VISN 4.
Improving Access with Pharmacists
Use of pharmacists to manage chronic disease patients at Madison increased primary care appointment capacity by 27 percent.
Direct Scheduling for Audiology & Optometry
Removing primary care consult requirement for routine audiology and optometry care reduced wait times by nearly 10 days, increasing primary care capacity.
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Nursing’s Role in Diffusion of Best Practices
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• Developing practices that are successful, exportable and sustainable are some of the best ways to ensure our care is efficient, effective, high quality and safe.
• Reaching out to sites doing well or that have shown improvement and learning what worked for them
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Improve the Employee Experience
VA is one of the largest civilian employers in the federal government and one of the largest health care employers in the world.
315,000+ Total VHA Employees
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98,000+Veteran
Employees
203,000+Clinical
Employees
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Improve VA’s Employee Experience by developing engaged leaders at all levels who inspire and empower all VA employees to deliver a seamless, integrated, and responsive VA customer service experience.
• Improve level of performance feedback provided to employees by supervisors
• Increase the level of empowerment that employees feel with respect to work processes
• Improve employees' perception that their ideas are considered
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Measuring VA’s Employee Experience
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Success by September 30, 2017 will be measured by an increase (over VA’s FY 2015 baseline) of 4 points or more in the percent of VA employees’ positive responses to the following statements from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey:
• My supervisor provides me with constructive suggestions to improve my job performance.
• In my work unit, steps are taken to deal with a poor performer who cannot or will not improve.
• Employees have a feeling of personal empowerment with respect to work processes.
• I feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things.
• How satisfied are you with the information you receive from management on what's going on in your organization?
• My organization's leaders maintain high standards of honesty and integrity.
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Staff Critical Positions
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Filling leadership vacancies with high-quality leaders is a top priority.
• VHA is actively utilizing all available recruitment tools to fill these critical leadership positions including Title 38 authority to attract highly qualified physicians to serve in these leadership roles.
• VHA implemented a national recruitment effort for medical center director positions in multiple locations.
• All vacant medical center director positions are announced for recruitment at the same time therefore improving the speed at which VHA will be able to identify and select leaders for these key positions.
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Hiring Update: Results
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• Thanks to focused efforts to staff critical positions, as of April 2016, 75 percent of VA Medical Center Director positions are filled with permanent appointments.
• VHA currently employs 25,000 physicians and 92,000 nurses (RN, LPN & NA).
• VHA has increased net onboard* staff by more than 18,000 employees since the beginning of FY 2015 through March 2016. That’s more than 6,300 nurses, 1,575 physicians, 99 psychiatrists, and 460 psychologists caring for Veterans.
*Net Onboard Increase reflects the increase in available workforce based on actual onboard at the end of the time period. In addition to hires and losses, it also reflects changes associated with pay and duty status, and at the occupation level, changes from one occupation to another. The count at the end of the period reflects actual head count and is not impacted by delays in coding hires and losses.
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Improve the Employee Experience
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Increase Employee Engagement
WHAT’S YOUR ROLE?
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Nursing’s Role in Increasing Employee Engagement
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Nursing’s greater voice into their work environment – through shared decision-making, self-scheduling, shared governance, regular nursing town hall meetings, etc.
Front line driven improvement projects.
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Think About Your Role
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Veterans First: Trust in VA Care
Improved Access
Increased Employee Engagement
Building a High-Performing Network
Consistency of Best Practice