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VA Health Care: Inadequate Planning in the Chesapeake Network

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 22, 1994
Report No. HEHS-95-6
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Summary:

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requested $14.5 million in its fiscal year 1994 budget request to build a 120-bed nursing home on the site of its former Baltimore (Loch Raven) Medical Center. Although Congress authorized VA's request, it required VA to reconsider the location of the new nursing home in the context of the entire Chesapeake Network and to determine whether the nursing home at the Fort Howard, Maryland, Medical Center needed to be expanded and modernized. VA reported to Congress that it had chosen the Loch Raven site for construction of a new nursing home and that the Fort Howard nursing home needed replacing. This report discusses whether VA used sound planning criteria in its choosing Loch Raven as a new nursing home site and in its plans to replace the Fort Howard hospital building and its nursing home.

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