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Become central. The veteran needs to be seen today, we have failed that veteran. You are looking for different ways i think we will be looking at different ways to evaluate timeliness of care, a combination of patient satisfaction, veterans waiting too long and seeing that number coming down steadily. And then as we have the system could ability to do things like you see in the private sector, metrics like the third next available appointment which gives you some gauge of the capacity of the system to be able to handle that veteran as they come in. Today at least we are able to look at same day appointments. Roughly in the primary care area we see about 100,000 veterans on the same day basis every single month in primary care. Thats coming to me, suggests that there is capacity being maintained to take care of that veteran who cannot wait 14 days or 21 days or 30 days. Okay. Health care from the private sector does play a Critical Role in making sure that veterans get the care in a tim
As well as why someone would have wound up on a further review list. Its taken us a while to do that and i want to apologize for him out of time. I want to make sure we dont miss the followup and anticipate that you would bet many cant do we have been a timeline . The question there as somebody mentioned earlier the ig said over 70 different locations. Do they want to do any additional review . They have created teams to go into all of those where the ig isnt in those are scheduled to be completed by think by midaugust is the completion time but in the meantime we are going to provide briefings on what the findings were. Thank you very much. Im going to be in reynaud in august. I have to go out there and speak. We will get you the dates. The dates when im going to be here and i will visit. Thank you very much. Lastly we appreciate the opportunity to provide technical input on the leasing issue. I think we furnish some of that information to the staff mr. Chairman that would help us be
On the veterans we are here to serve. Fifth, the va has failed to hold people accountable. And last we lack physicians, space, staff, Information Technology and perchase care funding to meet the current demand for Timely Health care. Furthermore we dont have the capacity to quantify the staffing because we have not built resources from the bottom up. We have instead managed to a budget number. As a consequence of all of the failures the trust that is the foundation of all we do, the trust of the veterans we serve and the trust of the American People and their elected representatives has eroded. We will have to earn that trust back through deliberate and Decisive Action and by creating an open, transparent approach to deal with veterans. To begin restoring trust we focused on six key priorities. Get veterans off the wait list and into clinics. Fix systemic scheduling problems, address cultural issues, hold people accountable, establish regular and ongoing disclosures of information, and
To va asserted reaching down the organization to get Additional Information. I think your sense is an accurate one. Historically they have operated in an insular organization. Part of what we have been doing is dismantling a lot of those barriers. Since my first day as acting secretary, every single morning at 9 00 a. M. We have something called access stand up. Senior leaders from across vha and the department up in our integrated Operations Center and bore into data are round access to care. This status, what are we doing, many contacts, appointments, the wait times, the status on many of these different initiatives i have alluded to in my opening statement. It is just part of what were putting in place. This young guy right here and as said before if i was half as smart as philippi would be darn smart. He has been doing an awful lot of the work to put in place the kind of Management System the youre talking about some of the and not just relying on by chance the information filters