...The United States Department of Veteran Affairs PAD 705 Organization Theory and Management May 12, 2015 Brian Wilson Since an Executive Order in 1930 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been an independent agency dedicated to serving America’s Veterans. “The Department’s mission is to serve America’s Veterans and their families with dignity and compassion and to their principal advocate in ensuring that they receive medical care, benefits, social support, and lasting memorials promoting the health, welfare, and dignity of all Veterans in recognition of their service to this nation” (VA 2010). The VA is the second largest Federal department with over 278,000 employees as of 2010. Among these employees are a wide array of professions including; nurses, physicians, counselors, statisticians, architects, computer specialists, and attorneys. The VA is comprised of a Central Office, and field facilities throughout the Nation administered by its three major line organizations: Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration, and National Cemetery Administration. The services and benefits provided to our nations Veterans are presented through a nationwide network comprised of 153 hospitals, 956 outpatient clinics, 134 community living centers, 90 domiciliary residential rehabilitation treatment programs, 232 Vet centers, 57 Veterans benefits regional offices, and 131 national cemeteries. The Secretary has identified five strategic goals for...
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...first started and how it has evolved over the years to become the entity it is today, serving our nations veterans. I will also discuss how the Veteran’s Administration has been plagued with many scandals throughout its existence, from when it was known as the Veterans Bureau during the early 1920’s and also the many issues that the Veterans Administration has dealt with over the years to include those that were involved and their official capacity in wrong doings. This paper will look at how the Veterans administration has tried to make changes to support the increased number of Veterans after many of our past wars and some of the difficulties veterans from the Vietnam War have faced to receive care and benefits that were exposed to Agent Orange. I will also looked at the many problems veterans have faced over the years to include most recent allegation that the VA has gone through since the earlier part of this year and the changes that has taken place to correct the problem. According to an article written by CNN, during the end of the Revolutionary War Congress was supposed to pay those veterans that were disabled during the war, but the service members individual states were left up to the task, leaving only a few thousand to receive any type of payment pay. Congress establishes the Veterans Bureau which was to help administer assistance to veterans of World War I. In 1921 President Harding appointed Colonel Charles R. Forbes as the head of a newly established...
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...fundamental and core concepts to follow are plan, organize, lead, and control. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has forgone such challenges in the process of reinventing itself (United States Department of Veteran Affairs, 2011). The VA fought internal and external factors that impacted areas in globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics. As the United States continues to fight against terrorism, members of the military continue to come home broken and disabled. Some disabilities require long-term recovery. The Department of Veteran Affairs makes every possible effort to ensure veterans receive the quality of care they need to enable them in performing their daily functions. The VA uses globalization not in a way to sell goods or services throughout the world but as an internal measure to promote acceptance, appreciation and tolerance of people from all backgrounds, cultures and nationalities. (businessdictionary.com, n.d.) Veterans gave of themselves to preserve the freedoms Americans now cherish without any concern to one’s background, religion, race, or culture. A veteran is a hero who deserves to be treated with honor and dignity no matter what part of the world he or she comes from. According to the businessdictionary.com, Technology is the purposeful application of information used in the health care field. The Department of Veterans Affairs health care system is using various types of technologies in the VA hospitals. Telemetry is an example...
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...Head: VETERANS DISABILITY SYSTEM 1 The Veterans Disability System: How Do We Fix the Claims Backlog? HCAD 660, 9041 Ceola Larry March 29, 2015 Turnitin Score 2% VETERANS DISABILTY SYSTEM 2 Abstract The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), once known as the Veterans Administration, was established in 1930. It is the second largest department of the federal government. Its main function is to provide benefits and support to veterans and their families. One of these benefits provided is disability compensation, which is administered by the Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA), one of three divisions of the VA. This compensations is given to U.S. military service members who are injured or develop illnesses while serving in the armed forces. Over the last 15 years or so, the disability claims, which allow these service members to receive compensation, have grown to such an amount, that the VA has fallen drastically behind in processing these claims. This has lead to an overwhelming issue, which has been labeled as the “claims backlog”. By the end of 2012, the claims backlog had reached over half a million claims. The VBA has implemented a Transformation Plan that hopes to solve this problem by the end of 2015. This report will discuss the veterans disability...
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...1120 Dr. Soto-Schwartz 15 October 2015 Veterans Affairs Helps Homeless Veterans Veterans Affairs is taking decisive action to end Veteran homelessness in five years. All Veterans at risk for homelessness or attempting to exit homelessness must have easy access to programs and services including prevention, housing support, treatment, employment and job training. Veterans Affairs programs and services aim to help homeless Veterans live as self-sufficiently and independently as possible. Veterans Affairs offer outreach, clinical assessment and referral to medical treatment, employment assistance, and supported permanent housing. One-third of adult homeless men and nearly one-quarter of all homeless adults have served in the armed forces. While there is no true measure of the number of homeless veterans, it has been estimated that fewer than 200,000 veterans may be homeless on any given night and that twice as many veterans experience homelessness during a year. Many other veterans are considered at risk because of poverty, lack of support from family and friends and precarious living conditions in overcrowded or substandard housing. Ninety-seven percent of homeless veterans are male and the vast majority are single. About half of all homeless veterans suffer from mental illness and more than two-thirds suffer from alcohol or drug abuse problems. Nearly 40 percent have both psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. The Department of Veterans Affairs is the only federal agency that...
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...The Issues Arising From the Department of Veteran Affairs Victor N. Ijoma Texas Southern University Abstract The issue of veteran’s affairs is a very important aspect to who we are as a nation. There are thousands of men and women who put on uniforms to go and defend our rights thousands of miles away, they have fought to make our dreams of living free and equal a reality and I believe we owe them the least of caring for them when they return home. The situation currently going on in the Department of Veterans Affairs is a nightmare, veterans being denied care, not being able to receive adequate support when they come home is a national disgrace to us. The effect of not being able to attend to the need of our veterans is a very dangerous trend, and unless we take the matter as an emergency situation, the very strength of our armed forces will start to lose its glory. The most important means of making sure we are taking care of our veterans is by looking into the laws and policy that currently govern the department so as to find a more responsible approach to making these laws and policy’s even better. The veterans Affairs being the second largest department in the federal government, it is crucial to have a budget big enough to be able to sustain old working programs and implement new programs in order to help give our veterans the very best care they have earned and desire. Department of Veterans Affairs As early as 1636 when the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony were...
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...The Department of Veterans Affairs Information Management System: Serving those that Served Punefuolemotu E.L. Aiumu Everest University MBA Degree Program Information Management System Abstract I selected this title because I served in the United States Army from 2003 to 2010. I was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and several other operations. However, when I left the Service it became clear to me years later that Veterans Affairs weren’t ready to treat our Men and Women coming back from War. So I did some extensive research on how the system may have failed the people it was supposed to serve. And a good example of the system’s failure was the second Fort Hood incident in 2014. Keywords: Veterans Affairs, Fort Hood, Service The Department of Veterans Affairs Information Management System: Serving those that Served The reason why I chose this subject is because it is close to home and it also affects me. After two weeks of this class I wanted to dive deep into information management. I want to know why our system at the Department of Veterans Affairs do not stand ready to serve the Veteran population of our Nation properly. So many Veterans complain about loss or insufficient pensions because the VA hasn’t track them sufficiently. Sitting at Veterans Hospital in Orlando, FL I hear two Vietnam era Veterans talk about not having VA ID Cards. And they have been waiting for it since 2009. I asked them why it took this long, and they said, “The...
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...A Veteran Serving Veterans: Personal Statement for Gonzaga University Graduate Admissions Jennifer Parache The servant-leader is servant first… Becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first… The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and the most difficult to administer, is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? –Robert Greenleaf Practicing nursing at a Veterans Affairs hospital affords me an immersion in adult and geriatric nursing care. I am a veteran, committed to continuing to serve my former brothers and sisters in arms. Obtaining a Masters of Science in Nursing in the Adult/Geriatric Nurse Practitioner track will allow me to meet a dire need within the Veterans Affairs health system, while pursuing my dream of serving veterans in a primary care provider capacity. The Veterans Affairs health system serves adults, specifically geriatrics (as of 2011, less than one in twenty veterans were under the age of 30). The effects of poorly managed chronic illnesses in aging veterans are keenly visible within my practice in the intensive care unit, and on the hospital wards. I want...
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...W HCS/577 February 24, 2014 Comparative Summary According to Finkler & Ward (2006), “health care is an enormous part of the US economy, representing 17% of all personal consumption expenditures annually” (p. 7). The health care industry has multiple components, diverse types of providers, and many different types of health care organizations playing an integral part in the delivery of health care. Health care is provided by different health care financial environment namely for-profit organization (FP), not-for-profit organizations (NFP), and governmental organizations (Finkler & Ward, 2006). This paper will identify one entity from each health care financial environment identified from the previous week’s worksheet and will describe the financial structure of each financial environment. This paper will also address the policies that make this financial environment unique and identify which financial management practices are prevalent in the financial environment. This paper will also explain why effective financial management is more difficult in health care than in other industries. Entities FP, NFP, and government facilities exist throughout the country. This paper identifies the first entity FP healthcare organization JFK Medical Center. The second entity is Naples Community Hospital (NCH), a NFP healthcare organization, and the third entity is the Veterans Administration, a government funded facility. JFK Medical Center is a 460-bed acute care medical/...
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...Team A Construction halted on new VA hospital in Aurora Denise Beyard Com295 12/15/2014 Dion Williams Team A Construction halted on new VA hospital in Aurora The article we read involved the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Aurora. They hired a company called Kiewit-Turner joint venture to fulfill the construction of building their new hospital. As it stands the VA approved a project that was way over budget and would last well past their deadline. Kiewit-Turner ended up spending $1,000,000 of their own money to continue the project as they were obligated to continue working. Eventually the construction workers had to stop working and weren’t paid for their work and it was said they would have to wait possibly until after the holidays to be paid. The group each agreed that it was very unethical of the VA to force a project they didn’t have enough funds to cover and allow cause the Contractor to come out of pocket so much money. It was also agreed by most that the subcontractors should have been paid for their work completed or they should have remained on payroll as they depended on the income. No one was given notice of what was to happen. They didn’t know they would have to walk away from work and without pay. They didn’t even have a chance to go find out work to make up for their losses. It’s a very sad situation. Some said both the VA and Kiewit-Turner both acted unethically because Kiewit-Turner could have let the subcontractors know what was going on so they could find other...
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...RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Suicide Among Veterans in 16 States, 2005 to 2008: Comparisons Between Utilizers and Nonutilizers of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Services Based on Data From the National Death Index, the National Violent Death Reporting System, and VHA Administrative Records Ira R. Katz, MD, PhD, John F. McCarthy, PhD, Rosalinda V. Ignacio, MS, and Janet Kemp, RN, PhD Since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been increasing interest in suicide among American military veterans. This reflects a number of important issues. First, veterans constitute a sizeable population that has been identified as being at increased risk for suicide by some1,2 but not all,3 research studies. Second, there is increasing evidence that suicide may be a consequence of the stresses related to the experience of deployment and combat.4 Third, there have been concerns about the extent to which the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, has addressed the needs of veterans, especially those who have returned from service in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the start of OEF and OIF, there have been a number of reports on rates and risk factors for death from suicide among all American veterans, independent of whether they have received VHA health care services,1---3,5---9 as well as a greater number of reports on those who utilize VHA...
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...Contents Another Manufactured Crisis: What’s Next in the Fiscal Showdown………1 Federal Pay……………………………………………………………….…..…..4 Federal Employees’ Health Benefits Program……………………………….15 Official Time for Federal Employee Union Representatives………….........22 Arbitrary Cuts in Civil Servants………………………………………………..26 Sourcing: Complying with the Law……………………………………….......31 Capping Taxpayer-Funded Service Contractor Compensation……………43 Transportation Security Administration and TSOs…………………………..46 Domestic Partnership Benefits……………………………..………………….49 Employment Non-Discrimination Act……………………………………..…..55 Paid Parental Leave………………………………………………..…………..57 One America, Many Voices Act………………………………………….…....60 Department of Veterans Affairs…………………………………..……………62 Department of Defense……………………………...……….………………...71 Federal Prisons………………………………………………………………….90 Social Security Administration ……………………………………….…...…103 National Guard/Reserve Technicians ………………………...……….……108 D.C. Workers’ Issues …………………...……………………………..…..…117 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ……………………..……...120 Another Manufactured Crisis: What’s Next in the Fiscal Showdown? Background At the beginning of January, President Obama signed a tax deal that restored higher Clinton-era rates to those making over $450,000, and funded an extension of unemployment insurance benefits to the long-term unemployed, extended for another year the $240 monthly transit subsidy, but did not extend the 2% payroll tax holiday. The...
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...licensed with the state or other responsible party for licensing and that the hospital must also ensure that personnel are also licensed by applicable state laws. (ECFR, 2015). Section 482.22 of the conditions of participation goes on to say providers must be authorized by State laws and licensed in the state to work. (ECFR, 2015). Hospitals must undergo an inspection by state surveyors or hospitals can choose an accreditation agency such as The Joint Commission or The American Osteopathic Association/Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program. These other accreditation agencies have been approved by CMS and are required to be equivalent or higher in their standards. (CMS, n.d.). The Affordable Care Act enacted a requirement that all Health and Human Service agencies develop quality standards. CMS further developed quality initiatives such as Value Based Purchasing and Physician Quality Reporting System to obtain data that could measure the quality of healthcare being given to Medicare beneficiaries. Physician Quality Reporting System or PQRS is a system through which healthcare professionals submit reports on quality measures. This gives patients and caregivers information on healthcare providers to make better...
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...Ethical Dimensions of Business Keller Graduate School of Management May 15, 2014 I choose “Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Coverage for Certain Intermittent Employees”. The Office of Personnel Management controls this proposed regulation. I am pursuing my MBA with a concentration in accounting, but my second choice would have been HealthCare management so by choosing this regulation I will have a better understanding of the type of regulations currently in place or being proposed. At this time the regulation proposed does not have a direct impact on myself, nor the business I am in. I have attached a copy of the proposed regulation at then end of this assignment. The Office of Personnel Management is proposing to temporary adjust the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program regulations to make sure employees who work sporadic schedules are eligible to be enrolled in a health benefits under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). The Office of Personnel Management intentions on proposing this regulation is to allow agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency also known as FEMA to apply to OPM for “authorization to offer FEHBP coverage to intermittent employees engaged in emergency response functions.” The Office of Personnel Management is proposing to provide health coverage to those who work as temps/part time in emergency response functions. This proposal should be passed not only temporary but permanently...
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...Grooms THESIS: Many Veterans benefits are insufficient. The reasons I believe that the benefits are insufficient are many Veterans have a lack of documentation, because they do not go to the doctor for all of their injuries. Some veterans believe that going to the doctor will make them look weak. Congress has a backlog on pending claims, and some Veterans are hurt mentally and physically, and they need their benefits. BACKGROUND: I expect to cover some of the reasons why many veterans do not get their benefits. They do not have documentation of all of their injuries. Congress has a backlog on pending claims, and veterans deserve their benefits. I also will cover the caregivers getting training, “Veterans Affair will increase mental health issues”, and “Amputee veteran sues over botched surgery”. OBJECTIVE: Making sure that veterans who have insufficient benefits are aware of the benefits available. SUPPORTING POINTS: 1. A Veterans aren’t getting their paperwork documented. B Veterans don’t keep up with their medical records. C Veterans believes that going to the doctor makes them look weak. 2. A Congress has a back log on pending claims. B There are too many veterans who have some missing files from their entire packets. C Incomplete veterans’ files are lacking signatures from higher officials. 3. A Caregivers getting health training B Veterans Affair will increase mental health issues. ...
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