VA Facility Security
VA Facility Security

Author: United States. Government Accountability Office

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13:

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The Veterans Health Administration is responsible for providing a safe and secure, yet welcoming environment for staff, patients, and visitors at nearly 170 medical centers. These facilities have been the target of violence, threats, and other security-related incidents. Assessing and managing risks a critical element for ensuring adequate physical security at these facilities. This report: (1) assesses how VA’s policies for risk management reflect prevailing standards, and (2) evaluates VA’s oversight of risk management at VHA medical facilities. GAO recommends that the Department of Veterans Affairs review and revise its risk management policies to reflect prevailing standards, and develop an oversight strategy to assess the effectiveness of risk management programs at VHA facilities.

Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services
Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2018-03-29

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0309466601

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Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.

Information Systems
Information Systems

Author: United States. General Accounting Office

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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We reviewed information system general controls' at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in connection with VA's required annual consolidated financial statement audit for fiscal year 1998. Our evaluation included follow-up on departmentwide computer security planning and management weaknesses and specific computer security weaknesses we identified at the Austin Automation Center (AAC) in conjunction with the audit of VA's fiscal year 1997 financial statements. On June 8, 1999, we issued a separate report to the acting VA Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the director of AAC that details the results of our review at AAC. We also reviewed VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) and consultant reports regarding computer security at Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities. These site reports included recommendations to correct the security weaknesses identified. The results of our underlying reviews were shared with VAs Office of Inspector General (OIG) for its use in auditing VA's consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 1998.