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What is a veteran's hospital?
Veterans hospitals(also known as VA Hospitals) are medical centers that provide care to eligible veterans. Most veterans hospitals offer both inpatient and outpatient care. Services provided can include: emergency, medical, surgical (including reconstructive/plastic surgery as a result of disease or trauma), substance abuse, and mental health.
Who are eligible veterans?
How do you know if you are an eligible veteran? The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has a website. This page: Health Care Eligibility and Enrollment for Veterans provides more information on who qualifies as an eligible veteran. Their website also provides enrollment information and a list of standard medical benefits.
How do you choose the best veteran's hospital?
Selecting a veteran's hospital can be a difficult decision. When selecting a veteran's hospital, you should consider the following factors:
1. Services offered: Verify the veteran's hospital has specialists in the area you or your loved one needs care.
2. Location: Use the veteran's hospital search tool above to locate veteran's hospitals in your area.
3. Quality: Quality is often overlooked but it is extremely important. Below is a brief overview of veteran's hospital quality data available on our website.
First, understand the basics of quality data on WhereToFindCare.com
The nation’s largest purchaser of health care is the federal government. The agency in charge of buying health care, called CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), monitors the quality of health care it purchases by requiring veteran's hospitals to report information in four different categories:
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- Pneumonia
- Surgical infection prevention and mortality
These categories each have several pieces of data (called measures) that change often. But rest assured, the analysts at WhereToFindCare.com continuously monitor and update them as often as possible.
Next, compare quality scores
WhereToFindCare.com gives you two quality scores to assist you in choosing a veteran's hospital: the government quality score and the consumer quality score.
WhereToFindCare.com simplifies data from CMS into one score called the government quality score. This score is displayed in your search results and on each veteran's hospital’s profile page. Each veteran's hospital’s government quality score is the percentage of measures that met or exceeded the national average. Sometimes, however, CMS feels a veteran's hospital did not have enough patients to make a judgment on its quality. In these cases, government quality scores are not displayed. When available, detailed quality information is available on the quality tab of each hospital’s profile page.
The consumer quality score is the percentage of people who rated their veteran's hospital on WhereToFindCare.com and said they received quality care. This experience-based veteran's hospital satisfaction score cannot be found elsewhere today except by word of mouth.
Have you had experiences with veteran's hospitals in your area? Share your experiences with other users by rating the veteran's hospital on WhereToFindCare.com. Your feedback is invaluable to others in your community searching for veteran's hospitals.
4. Recommendations: Word of mouth recommendations can tell us whether we can get along with providers on a personal level. Ask friends, family, and other associates if they have had experiences with the veteran's hospitals on your list. You can also find word of mouth recommendations on WhereToFindCare.com.
How can WhereToFindCare.com help you find the best veteran's hospital?
Use the veteran's hospital search tool above to locate veteran's hospitals in your area. With the report generated, you can view quality information, word of mouth recommendations from people in your community, exceptional healthcare workers at veteran's hospitals(we call them CareStars), photos, video tours, services provided, insurance accepted, contact information, driving directions, and much more.
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