VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents
VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents

Author: Randall B. Williamson

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011-07-10

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 1437987044

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Changes in patient demographics present unique challenges for the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) in providing safe environments for all veterans treated in VA facilities. This report examined whether or not sexual assault incidents are fully reported and what factors may contribute to any observed underreporting, how facility staff determine sexual assault-related risks veterans may pose in residential and inpatient mental health settings, and precautions facilities take to prevent sexual assaults and other safety incidents. The report reviewed relevant laws, VA policies, and sexual assault incident documentation from Jan. 2007 through July 2010 provided by VA officials and the VA Office of the Inspector Gen. (OIG); reviewed portions of selected veterans' medical records at five judgmentally selected VA medical facilities chosen to ensure the residential and inpatient mental health units at the facilities varied in size and complexity; and spoke with the four Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN) that oversee these VA medical facilities. Tables. This is a print on demand report.

VA Health Care
VA Health Care

Author: United States. Government Accountability Office

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Changes in patient demographics present unique challenges for VA in providing safe environments for all veterans treated in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities. GAO was asked to examine whether or not sexual assault incidents are fully reported and what factors may contribute to any observed underreporting, how facility staff determine sexual assault-related risks veterans may pose in residential and inpatient mental health settings, and precautions facilities take to prevent sexual assaults and other safety incidents. GAO reviewed relevant laws, VA policies, and sexual assault incident documentation from January 2007 through July 2010 provided by VA officials and the VA Office of the Inspector General (OIG). In addition, GAO visited and reviewed portions of selected veterans' medical records at five judgmentally selected VA medical facilities chosen to ensure the residential and inpatient mental health units at the facilities varied in size and complexity. Finally, GAO spoke with the four Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN) that oversee these VA medical facilities. GAO recommends that VA improve both the reporting and monitoring of sexual assault incidents and the tools used to identify risks and address vulnerabilities at VA facilities. VA concurred with GAO's recommendations and provided an action plan to address them.

Va Health Care
Va Health Care

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781983552984

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VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents

VA Health Care
VA Health Care

Author: Randall B. Williamson

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13:

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During GAO's recent work on services available for women veterans (GAO-10-287), several clinicians expressed concern about the physical safety of women housed in mental health programs at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facility. GAO examined (1) the volume of sexual assault incidents reported in recent years and the extent to which these incidents are fully reported, (2) what factors may contribute to any observed underreporting, and (3) precautions VA facilities take to prevent sexual assaults and other safety incidents. This testimony is based on recent GAO work, VA Health Care: Actions Needed To Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents, (GAO-11-530) (June 2011). For that report, GAO reviewed relevant laws, VA policies, and sexual assault incident documentation from January 2007 through July 2010. In addition, GAO visited five judgmentally selected VA medical facilities that varied in size and complexity and spoke with the four Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN) that oversee them.

Preventing Sexual Assaults and Safety Incidents at U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities
Preventing Sexual Assaults and Safety Incidents at U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities

Author: Subcommittee on Health,, Subcommittee on Health Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives

Publisher:

Published: 2011-06-13

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781477498996

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Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a deeply troubling report entitled "VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents." GAO found that between January 2007 and July 2010, nearly 300 sexual assault incidents, including 67 alleged rapes, were reported to VA police. Many of these alleged crimes were not reported to VA leadership officials or the VA Office of the Inspector General, in direct violation of VA policy and federal regulations. The findings of the GAO are disturbing for many reasons. Foremost, they represent a betrayal of trust by a system that was designed to treat our veterans at their most vulnerable time.

VA Health Care
VA Health Care

Author: Randall B. Williamson

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1437987486

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During recent work on services available for women veterans, several clinicians expressed concern about the physical safety of women housed in mental health programs at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facility. This testimony discusses an examination of: (1) the volume of sexual assault incidents reported in recent years and the extent to which these incidents are fully reported; (2) what factors may contribute to any observed underreporting; and (3) precautions VA facilities take to prevent sexual assaults and other safety incidents. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Author: Beth Bailey

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2015-12-18

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1479826901

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"Understanding the United States' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is essential to understanding the United States in the first decade of the new millennium and beyond. These wars were pivotal to American foreign policy and international relations. They raised critical ethical and legal questions; they provoked debates over policy, strategy, and war planning; they helped to shape American domestic politics. And they highlighted a profound division among the American people: While more than two million Americans served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the vast majority of American and their families remained untouched by and frequently barely aware of the wars conducted in their name, far from American shores, in regions about which they knew little. Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan gives us the first book-length, expert historical analysis of these wars. It examines the lessons and legacies of wars whose outcomes may not be clear for decades."--Back cover.