Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration—Resource Planning and Methodology for the Future Interim Report (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Facilities Staffing Requirements for the VHA: Interim Report.
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The Importance of Staffing Models for the VHA The Federal Property Management Reform Act of 20161 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. Apart from this obvious mandate, a staffing model enables quantitative planning of VHA Engineering staffing targets, which in turn provides the foundation for human resources activities.
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Any excess in the unforeseen events/emergencies fund can be allocated to a list of shovel-ready projects at the end of the fiscal year, but is this optimal? Directors have many demands on their limited budgets beyond facilities engineering but have staffing models only in some specific professional areas such as nursing or occupational safety and health.
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Presentation for the Committee on Facilities Staffing Requirements for Veterans Health Administration Meeting, September 26. 4 The Joint Commission is an independent nonprofit organization that accredits and certifies more than 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.
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TASKS TO DRIVE THE STAFFING MODELS OF VHA ENGINEERING Operations and Maintenance O&M comprises much of the visible daily work of Facilities Engineering. This includes inspecting; planning and executing required repairs or replacements by the trades (carpentry, electrical, plumbing, locksmith, painting)
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Variability in funding for capital projects makes predicting the necessary project staffing difficult and should be considered in resource staffing decisions. The actual form of the contract is important because different contract vehicles drive the level of administrative input.
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Presentation for the Committee on Facilities Staffing Requirements for Veterans Health Administration Meeting, March 12.
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Presentation for the Committee on Facilities Staffing Requirements for Veterans Health Administration Meeting, March 12.
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than a less-aggregated model, but would be much simpler to collect data for and to run. MEASURES OF FACILITIES ENGINEERING PERFORMANCE In a function where required tasks and their durations are not always predictable, it is important to understand relevant performance measures so that outcomes for different staffing levels can be predicted with accuracy.
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The challenge is to balance the costs of data collection and modeling with the strength of model predictions. A model based on process measures would be simpler and less costly than one based on, for example, patient outcomes but may not have the same effectiveness to model users at different levels of aggregation -- for example, when justifying Facilities Engineering budgets to Congress.
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Facilities: Functional Medical classification, load of patients/staff, clinical complexity Facilities: Grounds Acres, use, condition Relevant Performance Audit results, percent time facilities available, percent on-time PM, adverse incidents, energy use, quality of patient care, staff turnover Budgets Expenses for: Facilities Engineering (and breakdown by function) , capital expenditure, contracted staffing Current staffing: In house Administration, engineering, trades, contract oversight Current staffing: Contracted Project staff on contract, O&M staff on contract contains building and site information and also current staffing levels and contract details and is one possible approach to acquiring some of the data necessary for modeling.
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2019. Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration EngineeringAdministration: Proceedings of a Workshop in Brief.
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Any staffing model should have face validity as well as statistical validity for it to be well-accepted by users. This requires a balance between using perhaps obscure predictors and believability to those who must 26 Discussion with participants at Meeting 3 of the Committee on Facilities Staffing Requirements for Veterans Health Administration.
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Presentation for the Committee on Facilities Staffing Requirements for Veterans Health Administration Meeting, September 26, slide 98. 29 Public Law No.
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2019. Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health Administration Resourcing, Workforce Modeling, and Staffing: Proceedings of a Workshop.
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