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VA Real Property: VHA Should Improve Activation Cost Estimates and Oversight

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 2, 2020
Release Date Jan. 2, 2020
Report No. GAO-20-169
Summary:

How much does it cost to get a new medical facility for veterans up and running? The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) spent more than $4 billion staffing and equipping (“activating”) such facilities from fiscal year 2012 through 2018.

But VHA doesn’t have a clear definition of allowable activation expenses or a process to estimate total activation costs.

Our recommendations address these issues to improve VHA’s oversight of activation costs.

Medical staff and equipment can be activation expenses for new medical facilities

A person in scrubs using a large piece of medical equipment

A person in scrubs using a large piece of medical equipment

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