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1 Introduction
Pages 21-26

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... , while the VA provided health care to military veterans in its own medical center located less than two miles from the naval hospital (the North Chicago VA Medical Center)
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... The Lovell FHCC differs from other DoD/VA health care collaborations in several significant aspects. It is intended to be a single organization -- a federal health care center rather than a military treatment facility or a VA medical center -- that features a single chain of command, a consolidated funding source, and, to the extent possible, health care service delivery that is seamless for the patient, regardless of whether he or she is a VA or a DoD beneficiary.
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... Determine if success criteria would be different if the partner DoD health care facility was supporting operational units instead of basic/ advanced training units, such as the Navy Health Clinic Great Lakes.
From page 24...
... • Culture • Transferring volume to critical status measures policies, goals, • Leadership personnel mass to maintain • Increased market share in objectives • Information • Orienting employees competency local area • Number and location technology • Communication/ • More in-house • Other of facilities capabilities education surgery -- added • Size and number of • Care management • Developing policies posttraumatic stress people served • Care improvement • Developing shared disorder unit • Local health care • Performance electronic health • Increased professional market -- public and measurement records opportunities for staff private sectors • Training and • Other • Residency • Local labor market human resources opportunities • Other development • Healthcare • Financial reserves Effectiveness Data • Other and Information Set, DoD, Joint Commission benchmark measures • Employee satisfaction • Patient experience measures • Other * It is important to evaluate shared services, joint ventures, and partial and full mergers, etc., against their own stated goals and objectives in addition to those expected by external parties, including accreditation bodies, payers, and others.
From page 25...
... The lessons learned from the VA/DoD joint ventures reported at the annual joint venture conferences are summarized in Chapter 5, and short profiles of the joint ventures and their reported lessons learned are in Appendix C The committee was also informed by a commissioned paper authored by Thomas D'Aunno on the experiences of joint ventures and private-sector health care mergers (Appendix D)


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