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Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration–Resource Planning and Methodology for the Future (2020) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Need for a Staffing Methodology for the Veterans Health Administration
Pages 11-17

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... requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine "prepare a comprehensive resource planning and staffing methodology guidebook for VHA Facility Management (Engineering) Programs" by reviewing the tasks of VHA building facilities staff and recommending actions for VHA to meet the mission goals of delivering patient care, research, and effective operations.
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From page 12...
... Programs and recommend actions for VHA to meet the mission goals of delivering patient care, research, and effective operations through a national VHA engineering resourcing and staffing methodology. The full statement of task for the Committee on Facilities Staffing Requirements for Veterans Health Administration is in Box 1.1.
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... The resource and staffing methodology must take into account all significant parameters and variables involved in the VHA Engineering Programs. The methodology should yield customized outputs based on site-specific input data, to enable specification of the optimal budget and staffing levels for each site.
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From page 14...
... Resourcing, Workforce Modeling, and Staffing1 -- This workshop formed the basis for future modeling of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Engineering staffing by covering the techniques used and experiences with other organizations' staffing models.
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From page 15...
... 2019. Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration Capital Asset Inventory Database Man agement and Strategic Capital: Proceedings of a Workshop in Brief.
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From page 16...
... . The interim report also discussed the importance of staffing models for VHA noting that the following: The Federal Property Management Reform Act of 20162 requires federal agencies, with respect to the use of federal real property, to perform workforce projections to assess the property-related requirements of the federal workforce.
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... At the VISN level, a model can be used to allocate staffing resources among sites as these same parameters change at a site level. At the VAMC, the director will have quantitative access to where facilities engineering demands are likely to exceed current staffing in coming years so that funding resources can be allocated optimally among the various functions within a VHA site.
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  • resource planning

  • staffing strategies
  • vha facility
  • federal property
  • facility management
  • management reform

  • property management
  • capital asset
  • effective operations
  • real property
  • reform act

  • allocate staffing
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