Become proactive with Government Initiatives
AcuStaf meets Government Initiatives in the VA
The Veterans Administration has listed several National Initiatives to help the VA health system remain one of the best health systems in the world. These initiatives are categorized as Access, Quality, Performance and Cost.
Government Needs:
- Access: "VAi2 invests in solutions that better ensure that Veterans and their families receive the benefits that they need and have earned. Access supports seamless, convenient, and effective interaction between VA and our Veterans, providing the right care at the right time and in the right place. Improving access is a central component of VA transformation because it serves as an enabler of improved service to Veterans."
- Quality: "Programs focused on quality improvements span the entire VA mission, from health care to benefits delivery to Veteran employment. VAi2 enables VA employees to investigate creative technologies, processes, and practices that offer an opportunity to improve health outcomes, increase patient care satisfaction, and enhance the benefits services Veterans receive."
- Performance: "21st-century transformation calls on VA to continually find the tools to serve more Veterans in more ways, with better results. VAi2 programs target innovations that can seamlessly integrate into VA and generate dramatically improved outcomes. By identifying industry-leading solutions, VAi2 gives VA the ability to improve services by increasing reliability, speed, and accuracy."
- Cost: "VA is and always will be committed to the best system of delivering quality care and benefits to Veterans. Continually finding cost-effective ways to deliver services allows VA to maintain that high level of service on a long-term basis. VAi2 plays an important role by enabling the use of promising technologies in the design of cost-effective solutions."
How can AcuStaf Help?
- Access: Providing the right care at the right time and the right place, allows Veterans better access to quality patient care. AcuStaf has developed a product that will allow healthcare providers knowledge about patient workload in order to make adequate staffing decisions in real time.
- Quality: AcuStaf's mission for the past 31 years has always centered around quality of care. Partnering with several leading researchers in the nursing industry, AcuStaf has developed a product dedicated to providing the accurate data needed to validate academic studies. Capturing nursing at the point-of-care, allows users to measure outcomes and correlating them to staffing decisions.
- Performance: Increase your patient services reliablity, speed and accuracy through automating your staffing and scheduling practices. By making your hospital's staffing levels more transparent for managers, they can easily make the necessary changes to increase patient satisfaction. By providing your managers and supervisors with more staffing information and costing reports, they will be able to make better staffing decisions that will allow for a DECREASE in Overtime and Agency use.
- Cost: Are you looking to establish a centralized float pool? Do you already have a float pool, but are not able to communicate shift openings in a timely manner? Displaying shift openings early can save your facility money by not using Contract Registry Personnel and providing shifts to make sure your full-time staff meets their Work Agreement. Having all of your staffing and labor analytic information in one centralized database allows for easy access and reporting capabilities. With information at your finger tips, you will be able to significantly decrease your operating costs.