50 Most Frequently Asked
Questions
1.
How many
patients do you serve?
2.
How many
outpatients do you serve?
3.
What is your
budget?
4.
How much do
you spend on employee salaries and benefits?
5.
How much do
you spend on drugs and medicine?
6.
How many
operating beds do you have?
7.
How many
hospital beds do you have?
8.
How many
nursing home care unit beds do you have?
9.
How many
domiciliary beds do you have?
10.
How many
patients do you admit?
11.
What is your
average daily census?
12.
What is your
acute length of stay?
13.
How many
inpatients do you treat?
14.
How many
employees do you have?
15.
What is your
FTEE?
16.
How many
full time physicians do you have?
17.
What is our
quadrant Score?
18.
How many
patients do we treat from our 4 spoke hospitals?
19.
How many
outpatient surgical procedures do you perform?
20.
How many
inpatient surgical procedures do you perform?
21.
How many
liver transplants do you perform?
22.
How many
kidney transplants do you perform?
23.
How many
prescriptions do you fill?
24.
How many
volunteers do you have?
25.
What are
your community gifts and donations?
26.
How much
money was received for the Medical Care Collections Fund?
27.
What is JCAHO
and when did VAPHS receive full accreditation?
28.
How many
Clinical Centers of Excellence do you have?
29.
How many
Research Centers of Excellence do you have?
30.
What is your
web site address?
31.
What is your
toll free number?
32.
What is your
veteran population?
33.
When was the
VAPHS built?
34.
How many
acres does University Drive occupy?
35.
How many
acres does Highland Drive occupy?
36.
How many
acres does the Heinz Division occupy?
37.
Who are your
major academic affiliates?
38.
How many
Residents do you have?
39.
How many
FTEE do you have for Residents?
40.
How many
Research Projects were done during 2005?
41.
How many
Research Investigators?
42.
What is your
Research budget?
43.
How many
Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC's) do
you have?
44.
How many VET
Centers are you affiliated with?
45.
When were
the three VA Hospitals in Pittsburgh
consolidated?
46.
What is the MRSA Prevention Initiative?
47.
When did VAPHS kick-off the MRSA Prevention Initiative program?
48.
What new additions are being made to VA Pittsburgh?
49.
When is all the construction projects estimated to be complete?
50.
What is the total cost of the VAPHS major construction project?
1. Q: How many patients do you serve?
A: 57,606 unique
patients in FY 2006
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2.Q: How many outpatients do you
serve?
A:480,927
outpatient visits in FY 2006
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3. Q: What is your budget?
A: Total Medical
Appropriations & MCCF was $351,917,483 in FY 2006
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4. Q: How much do you spend on employee
salaries
and benefits?
A: Over 200
million dollars in FY2006
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5.
Q: How much do you spend on drugs
and medicine?
A: $16,722,740
in FY 2006 plus approximately 29 million
to the consolidated mail out pharmacy
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6. Q: How many operating beds do you
have?
A: 692 operating
beds
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7. Q: How many hospital beds do you
have?
A: 291 hospital
beds
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8. Q: How many nursing home care unit
beds do you have?
A: 336 nursing
home care unit beds
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9. Q: How many domiciliary beds do you
have?
A: 65
domiciliary beds
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10. Q: How many patients do you admit?
A: 8,636
admissions in FY 2006
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11. Q: What is your average daily
census?
A: 491.6 in FY
2006
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12. Q: What is your acute length of
stay?
A: 8.3 days in
FY 2006
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13. Q: How many inpatients do you
treat?
A: 9,144 in FY
2006
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14. Q: How many employees do you have?
A: 2,707 at the
end of FY06
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15. Q: What is your FTEE?
A: 2,510.1 FTEE
at the end of FY06
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16. Q: How many
full time physicians do you have
A: 88.7 (at the
end of FY06)
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17. Q: What is our quadrant score?
A: In FY 2006,
VAPHS reached Exceptional (Quadrant I) in
infections, tobacco and nursing home care, and Fully
Successful (Quadrant IV) in cardiovascular,
endocrine
and cancer care.
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18. Q: How many patients do we treat
from
our 4 spoke hospitals?
A: In FY06 we
treated:
- 2,653 patients from Altoona
- 1,895 from Erie
- 4,481 from Butler
- 3,292 from Clarksburg
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19.Q: How many
outpatient surgical procedures
do you perform?
A: 2,656in FY
2006
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20. Q: How many inpatient surgical
procedures
do you perform?
A: 1,944 in
FY2006
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21. Q: How many liver transplants do
you perform?
A: 51 in 2006
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22. Q: How many kidney transplants do
you perform?
A: 26 in 2005,
including 8 living donors
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23. Q: How many prescriptions do you
fill?
A: 1,114,008
prescriptions were filled in FY 2006
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24.Q: How many volunteers do you have?
A: 3,015
volunteers performed 144,146 hours of service at
VPHS
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25. Q: What are your community gifts
and donations?
A: Over $950,130.47
in cash and miscellaneous donations
were received in FY 2006
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26. Q: How much money was recieved
for the Medical Care Collection Fund?
A: MCCF
Collections equaled $17,780,644, FY 2006
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27. Q: What is JCAHO
and when did VAPHS receive full accreditation?
A: JCAHO is the
Joint Commission on Accreditation Healthcare
Organization.
VAPHS
received full accreditation in 2005.
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28. Q: How many Clinical Centers of
Excellence do you have?
A: Two (2):
- Renal Dialysis
- Women Veterans Program
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29. Q: How many Research Centers of Excellence do you have?
A: Four (4):
- Geriatrics
- Rehabilitation Research
- Behavioral Health
- Health Equities Research and
Promotion
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30. Q: What is
your website address?
A: www.va.gov/pittsburgh
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31. Q: What is your toll free number?
A: 1-866-4 VA
PITT (1-866-482-7488)
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32. Q: What is your veteran population?
A: Approximately
360,000
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33. Q: When was the VAPHS built?
A: University
Drive and Highland Drive were built and
activated in the early 1950s. The replacement
hospital
at the Heinz Division was completed in 1995.
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34. Q: How many acres does University
Drive occupy?
A: 13.86 acres
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35. Q: How many acres does Highland
Drive occupy?
A: 168.68 acres
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36. Q: How many acres does the Heinz
Division occupy?
A: 50.29 acres
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37. : Who are your major academic
affiliates?
A: VAPHS has an
active affiliation with the University
of Pittsburgh Medical School. There are also
nursing student
affiliations and affiliations involving dentistry,
pharmacy,
social work, and psychology with the University of
Pittsburgh.
VAPHS also has affiliations with 13 different
nursing schools.
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38. Q: How many Residents do you have?
A: Due to
abbreviated schedules, we can accommodate between
1,100 and 1,200 traineed each year.
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39. Q: How many FTEE do you have for
Residents?
A: We are
approved for 125.9 FTEE.
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40. Q: How many Research Projects were
done during 2006?
A: 266 projects
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41. Q: How many Research Investigators
DO you currently have?
A: 116
investigators at the end of 2006
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42. Q: What is your Research budget?
A: Over 22
million dollars in FY 2006
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43. Q: How many Community Based
Outpatient Clinics
(CBOC’s)
do you have?
A: Five (5):
- St. Clairsville, Ohio
- Greensburg, PA
- Aliquippa, PA
- Washington, PA
- Uniontown, PA
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44. Q: How many VET
Centers are you affiliated with?
A: Three (3):
- Pittsburgh
- White Oak
- Wheeling, WV
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45. Q: When were the
three VA Hospitals in
Pittsburgh consolidated?
A: October 1996
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46.Q: What is the MRSA
Prevention Initiative?
A: Based upon
research and tremendous success of VAPHS’s pilot
program,
VAPHS has been chosen as a leader and model
for a new national program focusing on eliminating
MRSA bacterial infections that hospitalize over
100,000 patients
each year.
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47. Q: When did VAPHS kick-off
the MRSA Prevention Initiative program?
A: A pilot
program with 17 facilities began on July 17, 2006.
VA Secretary
Jim Nicholson ordered all VAs in the
country to implement VAPHS’s models in
March 2007.
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48.Q: What new additions are being made to VA Pittsburgh?
A: University
Drive Division: a 1,200-space parking garage and
behavioral health addition in addition to a new
research building Heinz Division: an administration
and ambulatory care building as well as new
residential living villas.
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49. Q: When is all the
construction projects estimated to be complete?
A: Spring of
2010.
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50. Q: What is the total cost
of the VAPHS major construction project?
A: Over $200
million dollars.
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