VA System: A Case Study

This meek beginning social work had progressed into a professional service with treatment obligations in all patient care areas, helping patients ←and→ families to attain their highest level of adjustment/coping in society, endorsing vocational ←and→ psychosocial rehabilitation. Social workers developed implemented treatment approaches which addressed individual social difficulties work with acute/chronic medical conditions, dying patients, bereaved families. VA social workers were liable for ensuring continuity of care through the admission, evaluation, treatment, follow-up processes this consisted of coordinating discharge planning providing case management services based on the patients clinical community health social services

Our government gets a grade of C. The layers of bureaucratic waste were front in center with each week’s lesson. The founding fathers had good intentions but our leaders today seemed to have lost direction and proper focus. The negativity and division even, within their own parties of government officials is disconcerting. The system would work better if THEY learned how to be civil, respectful and more understanding of each other and realize that ever opinion matters and that working together they can archive more.

Over the past 15 years, the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) has seen a dramatic increase in the average degree of disability, growth in the number of compensation recipients, a rise in the number of medical issues claimed and an increased level of complexity of claimed issues. To illustrate this point, prior to the September 2011 terrorist attacks, 333,700 Veterans received compensation at the 70-100 percent level; however, these figures rose to over 1.1 million by the end of 2013. Additionally, since 2009, VA’s disability compensation workload rose 132 percent. This is in large part due to an unprecedented demand resulting from over a decade of war, military downsizing, economic issues, increased outreach, the addition of presumptive conditions and an aging Veteran population.

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) has been tasked with providing support and benefits to Veterans after they have completed their service. However, many Veterans are reporting difficulty accessing care due to systematic barriers within the VA’s Veterans Health Administration (Oliver, 2007). Complex eligibility requirements, long wait lists and lack of providers are a few of the issues Veterans are faced with when trying to access health and mental health care. Additionally, studies indicate that veterans, predominantly those from the recent wars in Iran and Iraq, have disproportionately high amounts of mental illness (Shim & Rust, 2013). These same veterans are experiencing difficulty accessing mental health care due to issues around a backlog of healthcare eligibility applications and a shortage of mental health providers through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which operates the Nation’s largest, integrated health care delivery system (APA, 2014). In 2014, at the request of the Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) evaluated the merit of the allegations of mismanagement at the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) and the Health Eligibility Center (HEC).

In the past few years there has been increasing discussion about how to provide adequate care for the increasing number of veterasn who are eligible for care through the Veterans’ healthcare administration (VHA). There are concerns is that the VHA is not providing the level of access, efficiency, and quality of care that veterans expect. Lee & Begley, (2016) suggest access to care for the veteran population may be resulting in poor health outcomes. In response to these concerns, the Veterans ' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act (VACAA) of 2014, also known as the Veterans Choice Act, was created to improve Veterans’ healthcare. The VACAA proposed to do this by expanding the number of options veterans have for receiving healthcare, by providing access for healthcare at non-VA care centers as well as providing for an increase in staffing at VA facilities (U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2016).

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ mission statement is to fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's veterans. The department attempts to fulfill its mission through its Core Values. These values are captured in the acronym “I CARE”. It stands for Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence. The department has a presidential cabinet secretary and is responsible for overseeing all veterans’ affairs on behalf of the United States government. The department has three administrations: Veterans Benefits Administration, Veterans Health Administration and National Cemetery Administration which

The VA health care program is a disaster. Some candidates want to get rid of it, but our veterans need the VA to be there for them and their families. That’s why the Trump plan will:

The Texas Veterans Commission was created in 1927, after the Indian, Spanish-American and first world wars. Their sole purpose is to support and advocate for our veterans. They provide support in many different capacities such as, disability claims, employment assistance, educational services, and providing grants to agencies and organizations to directly aide veterans and their families through the Fund for Veterans Assistance.

Under Virginia Code § 60.2-618 is Ms. Johnson disqualified from receiving benefits if she was sexually harassed and quit her job with good cause?

Currently, the Alvin C. York VA Medical Center utilizes a poorly implemented and poorly designed incentive program. The current inventive program rewards the majority of employees solely based on a yearly evaluation. The terms of the evaluation are set by human resources employees including the criteria for what constitutes an adequate performance level. Ideally, this evaluation rating system should be developed by individual supervisors so that departmental and unit goals can be effectively achieved. After all, the purpose of an organization exists to reach the organizations goals (Nassar, 2007). There are some general incentives that appear to be effective incentives for acute care nurses. These general incentives include providing adequate

In looking at the general organizational map for the Veterans Affairs administration, it is fairly clear that there is a strong structure and division to the department. There is perhaps a little too much bureaucracy for the department given the amount of "secretary" positions and the like, but there seems to be at least a fairly good order to their current structure. Also strong is the fact that the different positions and jobs within the leadership realm seem to be well-defined with the duties of each position clearly spelled out. As for the downsides, it is a government agency and the amount of red-tape and other shortcomings have apparently been an issue with the Veterans Affairs Administration

Every day veterans are unattended to, or their appointments are rescheduled. So many veterans are homeless because they can’t or won’t be hired, to me this is unfair. I know many veterans that would rather not go to the VA or be cared for at the VA because of their lack of being cared. The way I see it is, if the people/ workers at the VA work there they should know what they’re getting themselves into. yes the VA is insane, and deranged etc., but hey if you work there stay committed to help and take good care of our veterans, to help the people who is or have fought for our country as a favor in return to

My mortgage balance is approximately $175,000. Can you please provide as estimate of how much the processing fee and ownership records revision fee would be if VA approves a VA Loan Assumption?

Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) is an agency that specifically provides programs and services to those who have served in Canada’s armed forces. This organization plans to recruit post-secondary students to fill in their various positions through the use of giving away free VAC puzzles, which allowed users to twist and reassemble the pieces; the information presented on the item include the website URL (which is repeated multiple times), the Canadian flag, and key messages. Thus, their recruitment strategy was able to help them gather a large pool of potential candidates. Based on this case study, an analysis of the competitive advantages, the effectiveness of this strategy will be briefly summarized; recommendations will

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