VA health care: VA faces challenges in meeting demand for long-term care : testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Government Accountability Office. issuing body. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health. issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, March 3, 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Government Regulation Long-Term Care -- legislation & jurisprudence United States United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- My testimony today highlights key findings from our February 2020 report, which described the (1) use of and spending for VA long-term care, and (2) challenges VA faces to meet veterans’ demand for long-term care and examines VA’s plans to address those challenges. We made three recommendations in our report aimed at strengthening VA’s efforts to address long-term care challenges. VA concurred with our recommendations. To describe the use of and spending for VA long-term care, we reviewed VA data on the utilization of and obligations for long-term care for fiscal years 2014 through 2018 and projections of utilization and expenditures developed by VA’s Enrollee Health Care Projection Model (EHCPM) for fiscal years 2017 through 2037.4 To discuss the challenges VA faces in meeting veterans’ demand for long-term care, we reviewed relevant VA documents and interviewed VA officials about VA’s capacity to provide long-term care, including officials from VA’s Geriatrics and Extended Care office (GEC) which oversees the long-term care programs, and officials from the Office of Policy and Planning. Further details on our scope and methodology are included in our report. The work on which this statement is based was performed in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918284267306676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918284267306676