VISN 12 Deputy Network Director Wins Federal Leadership Award Lynette Taylor, VISN 12 deputy network director and incident commanderDaniel Duverney
Updated 5/6/2021 9:17 AM
A VA Great Lakes Health Care System, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 12, leader was announced as a winner in the Chicago Federal Executive Board (FEB) 2021 awards competition.
Lynette Taylor, VISN 12 deputy network director, won the John F. Kennedy Leadership award in the competition for her role as VISN 12 incident commander, leading the COVID-19 response for VISN 12 s eight medical facilities.
I am proud that a VISN 12 leader was selected by the Chicago FEB as the winner of the JFK Leadership award, said Victoria Brahm, VISN 12 network director. Ms. Taylor proactively determined appropriate actions to keep our Veterans, employees and each other safe in the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System staff are working to reach more Veterans using mobile mental health apps.
VA’s National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) received funding to roll out a project seeking to increase Veterans’ access to mobile apps to improve mental health coping and reduce suicide risk.
One medical center in every VISN (Veterans Integrated Service Network) was selected to implement the project locally. When VA Pittsburgh Chief of Chaplain Service Paul Dordal learned about the project, he was immediately interested.
“They had never had a chaplain volunteer, but I saw it as an opportunity,” he said.
Dordal and VAPHS psychologist Dr. Michael Rosen received specific train-the-trainer instruction to become “mHealth specialists.” In this role, they work to empower and assist others, called mHealth ambassadors, to incorporate the mobile mental health apps into care. Anyone with connection to patients can become an ambassador, from psychologists a
VA suicide prevention staff face burnout as workload rises, watchdog warns 2 hours ago People walk part the entrance of the Washington D.C. VA Medical Center in June 2014. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) As demand for mental health services and suicide prevention programs increases within Veterans Affairs offices, staffers there may be at risk of exhaustion and burnout if changes aren’t made to better track and manage those employees, an outside watchdog warned Monday.
In a new report, the VA Inspector General said that department leaders have not done a thorough enough review of VA suicide prevention teams’ staffing, workloads and challenges. Without that, they cautioned, leaders do not have enough visibility over operations to ensure new prevention programs are being implemented properly.
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