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 Preserving VA as an Integrated
Health Care System
 JAMA:
Assessment of Changes in US Veterans Health Administration Care
Delivery Methods During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AVAPL
Community Care Survey.
September 2021
In June 2021, the AVAPL Executive
Committee circulated a survey that asked AVAPL members who
interface with non-VA providers to voluntarily provide their
impressions of the Community Care program.
The results of the 36 respondents are
attached. (FYI, the Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs
just conducted a similar survey. Their results can be found at https://www.vanurse.org/news/581288/NOVA-Community-Care-Survey-Results-Show-Improvements-Needed.htm
Among the key highlights of AVAPL
survey, between 79 and 100 percent of respondents who interface
with the Community Care Program:
- feel that there were clinical
practices by community providers that were questionable.
- believe that specified
recommendations for the type of psychotherapy and issues
needing to be addressed in referrals to Community Care were
often not adhered to.
- feel that Community Care
providers don’t send progress measurements, treatment plan
updates or chart records when requesting additional
psychotherapy sessions.believe that their VA facility was
not generally supplied data about outcomes when veterans
were referred to residential program.
Veterans
Healthcare Policy Institute:
Asset and Infrastructure Review Criteria Comments
Stanford
University:
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans
Veterans
Healthcare Policy Institute:
Creating Effective
Solutions, Programs, and Policies to Improve Veterans’ Mental
Health Care
The
HIll:
VA hospitals still an excellent choice for veterans
AVAPL:
Position
Brief on PFC Joseph P. Dwyer Peer Support Program Act (H.R.
1749)
AVAPL:
Critique of S. 785 Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental
Health Care Improvement Act of 2019
AVAPL:
Position Paper on
Proposed Legislation on Posttraumatic Growth
Veterans
Healthcare Policy Institute, American Psychological Association,
AVAPL, Association of VA Social Workers, Nurses Organization of
Veterans Affairs:
Analysis of Improve Well-Being for Veterans Act
JAMA:
Implications for Veterans’ Health CareThe Danger Becomes Clearer
JAMA:
Association Between Dual Use of Department of Veterans Affairs
and Medicare Part D Drug Benefits and Potentially Unsafe
Prescribing
Veterans
Healthcare Policy Institute:
The Harm to Veterans, the Medical Profession and the Community
if Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission Recommendations
Lead to Closure of a VA Facility
Comparison
of Current VHA, TriWest, Optum and Proposed MISSION Act Section
133 Provider Competence Standards for EBP Treatment of Veterans
with PTSD
American
College of Physicians:
ACP Steps Up Efforts to Protect Veterans' Health Care
The
American Prospect:
Putting Veterans at Risk
Multiple
Organizations:
Public Comment--Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Proposed
Rule to Create New Regulations to Define and Implement the
Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP)
The
American Prospect:
The VA Is Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care While Launching a
Campaign to Deny It
The
Veterans Healthcare Action Campaign, Association of VA
Psychologist Leaders, Association of VA Social Workers, Nurses
Organization of Veterans Affairs:
Public Comment On The Access to Walk In Care Provision of the VA
MISSION Act 2018
Center
for a New American Security:
Congress Should Vigorously Oversee Implementation of the Mission
Act
Veterans
Healthcare Policy Institute:
Double Standards: Credentials, Training and Competence of
Community PTSD Providers Are Less Than Those For Veterans Health
Administration Providers
JAMA
Network:
Comparison of Wait Times for New Patients Between the Private
Sector and United States Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Centers
Click here to access an archive of
previous articles and links related to the preservation the VA
health care system.
 Commentary
on Proposed Legislation
Suzanne
Gordon: "Say
Never to the 'Never Again Act'"
"Never Again Act":
Click here to view the policy brief from
AVAPL and APA on the "Never Again Act."
Title 38 for Psychologists
The
Quest for Title 38 by VA Psychologists: A PowerPoint
presentation outlining the major issues about Title 38 for
psychologists.
Title 38 White Paper
Click here to view the revised
version of the Title 38
White Paper, developed by the AVAPL Executive Committee.
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